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Published online 2 March 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050228-8

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Ecologists propose 'intactness index'

Big-picture approach will track biodiversity conservation.

When the 188 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity met in South Africa nearly three years ago, they agreed to significantly reduce biodiversity loss by 2010. But it was not clear how this would be measured.

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