How to Protect an Ecosystem

Living on Earth

Host Jan Nunley talks with Steve McCormick of the Nature Conservancy about his group’s efforts to protect entire ecosystems from development. The model they have developed addresses political and economic considerations at least as much as ecological ones.

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