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Scientists note that climate change is expected to impact 58% of montane forest in the Peruvian Andes. Credit - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT / N.Palmer
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Scientists have called for the use of climate projections in conservation planning, to ensure that areas most at risk from biodiversity loss and climate impacts are protected. Protected areas are often created in areas of low population density and remote locations, rather than because of their biodiversity conservation potential. Conservation planning in tropical forests especially tends to be less rigorous and climate rarely taken into account, they said.

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