🧵1/@UNBiodiversity #COP15 is being lauded as Paris Agreement for biodiversity with a deal to protect 30% of all land and water on Earth by 2030 but we should not get our hopes up - by @brambuscher & I @ConversationUK theconversation.com/biodiversity-t… 2/It took 60 years to get to 17% under protection, so how realistic is a near-doubling in 8 years? Its left to individual governments to work out where and how - given the history of conservation & growing militarisation this risks dispossession & abuses
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