A grand plan to devote half the planet to nature could create conflicts with farming. A global analysis locates the countries and ecoregions where scaling up habitat protection will be most difficult.
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Phalan, B.T. Challenges for scaling up conservation. Nat Sustain 1, 387 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0122-0
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