Globally, more than a million species face extinction. Environmental leaders at a UN biodiversity summit in Montreal this week are working toward an agreement to protect those species, and nature as a whole. There’s an emerging movement to integrate the cultural diversity of animals into conservation plans. The World’s environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler reports on one biologist documenting the diversity of sperm whales off the coast of Dominica.
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