UN draft plan aims to beef up global biodiversity protection

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Proposals intended to replace a 2010 framework are set to be discussed by diplomats at a major UN summit in China in October

Thirty per cent of the world's land and seas should be protected by 2030 as part of wide-ranging new efforts to reverse "rapid declines in biodiversity". That is the headline goal set out in an ambitious...

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