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What Protecting 30 Percent of the Planet Really Means. Credit - Credit: Kim Schandorff Getty Images
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There is persuasive evidence that far-reaching protections for the planet’s remaining forests, grasslands, wetlands, coastal marshes and other ecosystems are urgently needed, not only to prevent the further decline and extinction of other species but to stabilize the global climate. Yet the 30x30 goal is viewed with justifiable suspicion by many antipoverty and Indigenous rights activists, who know that parks and other protected areas frequently obliterate local land claims...

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