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Khabre desk
Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the biodiversity desk.
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Japan certified 571 hectares of Honda’s Takasu Proving Ground in Hokkaido as a sustainably managed natural site. The designation recognises biodiversity plans and conservation activity alongside the facility’s vehicle testing work.
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A Nature Research Briefing reports that a combined global and national-level dataset puts terrestrial conservation coverage at up to 27%. It also says gaps in ecological representation remain.
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A taxonomic study in Phytotaxa recognises five species in the giant waterlily genus Victoria, including V. colombiana in Colombia’s upper Orinoco and V. mattogrossensis in the Pantanal. The researchers compared plant morphology and mapped populations against South American river drainage patterns.
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A bioRxiv preprint compares two landscape-scale restoration scenarios in the French Alps, finding that the configuration with greater ecological impact relied on actions local stakeholders considered harder to implement. Both scenarios affected about 14.5% of the landscape, while their modeled effects extended across much larger areas for connectivity-dependent ecosystem services.