Protected areas "insufficient" to stem biodiversity loss

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Study says small proportion of land and sea set aside means reduction in human impact is needed to prevent mass extinctions

Designating increasing amounts of land and sea as protected areas has failed to halt a "steep decline" in biodiversity, leaving an urgent reduction in man's ecological footprint as the only option for...

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