Road verges. Windbreaks. The vicinities of abandoned fields, market grounds, and storage sheds. When most people think of biodiversity conservation, these are not the places that come to mind. Much more familiar are wild-land conservation areas - rainforests, wetlands, tundra, even tidepools and undersea canyons - places virtually untouched by human […]
No matter what you call these globe-trotting researchers (often pharmaceutical companies or entities hoping to attract the favorable attention of pharmaceutical companies), this is what their detractors say they do:
Go someplace that has flora or fauna with unusual or unknown characteristics. In a lot of these places, the people who live there are poor. Possibly, given more money, […]
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