NEXT WEEK, CONSERVATION SCIENTISTS WILL GATHER AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR
Conservation Biology (ICCB) in Baltimore, Maryland, to grapple with the challenges of
preserving our natural world in the face of a growing and increasingly consumptive human
population. The natural world provides countless services, such as clean water, protection
from fl ooding, and carbon sequestration, while offering opportunities for new medicines,
foods, and energy production. Yet these valuable services and opportunities are disappearing
along with the species and natural areas that supply them. The needs of a growing human
population must be met while conserving the planet’s natural systems. Accomplishing both
will depend on making clearer connections between scientifi c results regarding issues such
as biodiversity loss and the critical decisions that must be made about conditions that underlie
change, such as greenhouse gas emissions and freshwater availability. The good news is
that today’s conservation scientists are developing innovative tools
and strategies.
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