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Mexican communities manage their local forests, generating benefits for humans, trees and wildlife

  • Written by David Bray, Professor of Earth and Environment, Florida International University
Mexican communities manage their local forests, generating benefits for humans, trees and wildlifeJungle near the Palenque ruins, Chiapas, Mexico.Lawrence Murray/Flickr, CC BY

The United Nations is preparing to host pivotal conferences in the coming months on two global crises: climate change and biodiversity loss. As experts have pointed out, these issues are fundamentally, inescapably intertwined. In both cases, human activities are harming...

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