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Published online 6 March 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060306-7
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Future extinction hotspots unveiled
Researchers identify likely scenes of tomorrow's conservation battles.
What do the frozen expanses of northern Canada, the balmy Bahamas and the verdant islands of Indonesia all have in common? They have all been pinpointed as places where the world's mammals are most at risk of future fights against extinction.
The animals that live there are not threatened now, but could yet find their populations in peril.
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