America contains acres upon acres of undeveloped, privately held land. Nothing has been built on this land, and no one is farming it or living on it. Its owners might have set it aside as an investment, or for future ventures, or just in case.
But a recent paper in Scientific Reports suggests another effective use for all these acres: leave them alone, in order to help protect some of the country’s rarest animals.
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2020/07/endangered-species-get-a-huge-bump-when-private-lands-are-brought-into-the-conversation-mix/
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