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Mismatches in Scale between highly Mobile Marine Megafauna and Marine Protected Areas

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Marine Protected areas (MPAs), particularly large MPAs, are increasing in number and size around the globe in part to facilitate the conservation of marine megafauna. Call Number: [EL]Physical Description: 17 p.

Photograph: William J Baker/RBG Kew
Humans v nature: our long and destructive journey to the age of extinction
November 28, 2022

The story of the biodiversity crisis starts with a cold-case murder mystery that is tens of thousands of years old.

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Credit: Peter Schouten (End of the Megafauna)
Reign of Papua New Guinea's megafauna lasted long after humans arrived
October 13, 2022

Flinders University paleontologists, working with Australian National University archaeologists and geoscientists, have used new techniques to re-examine megafauna bones from the rich Nombe Rock Shelter fossil site in Chimbu Province in a bid to better understand the intriguing natural history of

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