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The first farmers often made landscapes more biodiverse – our research could have lessons for rewilding today
You don’t need to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to stumble across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species that has gone extinct. Since AD1500, at least 705 vertebrate species and 571 plant species have died out. Humans have …