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Maintaining Key Evolutionary Processes

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Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Group
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Human Health
Preserving Coastal and Marine Biodiversity
Major Biodiversity Bottlenecks: A Hotspots' Salvage Strategy
Maintaining Key Evolutionary Processes
Social Drivers and Biodiversity Social Forces
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 The largest major blocks of forest of the Amazon basin, the Guyana Shield, the Congo Basin and Asia/Pacific are under increasing threat by logging, mining, infrastructure development and other factors. These are the last remaining evolutionary laboratories for high diversity ecosystems. Unless action is taken at this point, not only are we bound to lose a vast array of endemic groups, but also witness the rapid decline in the distribution of these high priority tropical forests. There are reasons to suspect that financial opportunities exist to halt the final liquidation of these forests.

Russ Mittermeier (Group Chair)
President
Conservation International

Anthony Rylands (Co-chair)
Director
Conservation Biology
Conservation International

Claude Gascon
Vice President for Field Support
Conservation International

José Márcio Ayres
Senior Research Fellow
Wildlife Conservation Society

Avecita Chicchon
Program Officer
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Jeff McNeely
Chief Scientist
World Conservation Union

Gai Kula
Country Director
Papua New Guinea
Conservation International

Ghillian Prance
Former Director
Royal Botanical Gardens



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