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Conservation pays its way handsomely
Publicado em 02 dezembro 2019
Money does grow on trees. The conservation of a native forest is natural capital, its cash value often reaching trillions of dollars.
LONDON, 2 December, 2019 – More than 400 scientists in Brazil have once again established that conservation pays: landscapes and people are richer for the native vegetation preserved on rural properties.
They calculate that 270 million hectares (667m acres) of natural forest, scrub, marsh and grassland contained in Brazil’s legal reserves are worth [...]
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