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ust 1.4 percent of the worlds landmass, but contain a staggering 60 percent of terrestrial species diversity. The remaining $5 billion would help protect the tropical wilderness forests and key marine reserves.

"This is the first time that a plan for addressing the most important crisis for biodiversity has been articulated from both a scientific and practical application point of view," says CABS Executive Director Gustavo Fonseca, another co-author. "We know not only that these suggestions are viable, but we know that they are affordable."

One suggestion, for example, calls for a targeted assault on perverse economic subsidies, governmental policies that degrade the environment. Another is to compete with loggers, using "conservation concessions" as a free-market mechanism to ensure conservation success.

The initial blueprint to carry out the recommendations of the Defy Natures End Conference will be formally announced on October 19 in Portland, Oregon at the annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Journalists.


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Contact: Brad Phillips
b.phillips@conservation.org
202-912-1532
Conservation International
21-Sep-2001


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