Dave Harmon, PW editor
- Aug 8
- 1 min read

Study: More PAs needed to stave off extinction disaster

As the world faces cascading extinctions and runaway climate change, a growing body of scientific research has found that we should set aside more areas as protected spaces.

That message got hammered home by a study published in June in the National Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences that says current protected areas won’t stop the extinction crisis — because we haven’t set aside nearly enough land to date.

https://therevelator.org/protected-areas-science/

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