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We Spend Millions Conserving Species, But Are We Making It Worse?

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Channel: Seeker
Categories: Biology   |   Society / Culture   |   Environmental   |   Science   |   Social Science  
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Animals are going extinct and human intervention has saved some species, but is exhausting so much time and money helping as much as we hope?


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