Conserving biodiversity hotspots ‘could bring world’s poor $500bn a year’

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Helping protect biodiversity could be lucrative, says a new study. Image: freeonlinepicture.net

Some of the world’s poorest people would be half a trillion dollars a year better off if the services they provide to the rest of the planet indirectly – through conserving natural habitats – was given an economic value, a new study has found.

Read the full story on the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jan/20/conserving-biodiversity-poor-economic-value?CMP=twt_fd

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