Five things we learned about the state of the planet at the world's biggest meeting of biodiversity experts

By Louise Gentle, Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation, Nottingham Trent University

Every four years, some of the biggest issues facing the planet are thrashed out in a global meeting of conservation scientists. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the status of the natural world, recently hosted the World Conservation Congress in Marseille, France, which was attended by 4,000 people, from government ministers and academics to indigenous leaders and business executives.

It was the first opportunity since the pandemic for…

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