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Published online 15 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050711-15
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Conservation biology in Brazil
This year's annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology is in BrasÃlia, the capital of Brazil that was designed, in 1960, to be a futuristic dream city. From 15 to 19 July, against a backdrop of innovative architecture and high-tech recycling bins, scientists are gathering to discuss the Earth's ecosystems and the various ways we humans are disturbing them. Washington correspondent Emma Marris packs her sunblock and jets down south to catch the sizzling science behind saving the planet.
Today is the last day, but the conference doesn't have that washed-out feeling that many do near the end. This may be because some of the big guns of conservation biology are on a panel today about one of the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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