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Kendall Jones

is a doctoral researcher at the University of Queensland and also part of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Conservation Planning Initiative.
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A Warning About the Rapid Erosion of Nature’s Strongholds

New research finds that one-third of the world's protected areas cannot serve the conservation mission for which they were established.
June 5, 2018
by
James Watson and Sean Maxwell and Kendall Jones
New research finds that one-third of the world's protected areas cannot serve the conservation mission for which they were established.

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