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Could development and biodiversity be compatible? Maybe, says a new study by the Conservancy's chief scientist Peter Kareiva.


Images (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Layne Kennedy (Measuring beak of ovenbird); © Mark Godfrey/TNC(Beetles collected during BioBlitz); © Sanjayan/TNC (Sanjayan); © Timothy T. Lindenbaum (Farm);
© NOAA (Great Pacific Garbage Patch)