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Trade and the biodiversity convention

How can the international trade in genetic resources help global biodiversity conservation? The UN's Biodiversity Convention provides the means to resolve this question.

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Putterman, D. Trade and the biodiversity convention. Nature 371, 553–554 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/371553a0

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