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Major biodiversity initiative needs support

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An effort aimed at protecting ecosystems, modelled on the agency battling climate change, will need protecting from powerful enemies, warns Ehsan Masood.

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Masood, E. Major biodiversity initiative needs support. Nature 518, 7 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518007a

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