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A billboard in Beijing encouraging people to protect pangolins. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
January 21, 2021
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The year 2020 was always destined to be a crucial one for biodiversity, with the Cop15 conference in Kunming, China scheduled for October, at which the international community was expected to agree a Paris-style agreement for nature. But the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic across the world forced biodiversity on to the agenda in a way previously unseen.

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