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29-09-2018 | Letter to the Editor

Promoting environmental conservation one stamp at a time

Author: Alex C. Y. Yeung

Published in: Biodiversity and Conservation | Issue 14/2018

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The success of biodiversity conservation is tightly linked to the amount of national-level conservation spending (Waldron et al. 2017). Modest increases in spending in the more biodiverse, low- and middle-income countries in particular could greatly halt further global biodiversity declines. However, one major challenge to enhancing conservation investment in many of these countries is insufficient funding from domestic governments, and international aids and payments (Waldron et al. 2013; Lindsey et al. 2017). …

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Title: Promoting environmental conservation one stamp at a time
Author: Alex C. Y. Yeung
Publication date: 29-09-2018
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Biodiversity and Conservation / Issue 14/2018
Print ISSN: 0960-3115
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9710
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-018-1642-7

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