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Stop military conflicts from trashing environment

  1. Sarah M. Durant

    1. Zoological Society of London, UK.

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  2. José C. Brito

    1. University of Porto, Portugal.

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The United Nations’ International Law Commission is meeting this month to push forward a 2013 programme to protect the environment in regions of armed conflict (go.nature.com/2ewdyj). We call on governments to incorporate explicit safeguards for biodiversity, and to use the commission’s recommendations to finally deliver a Fifth Geneva Convention to uphold environmental protection during such confrontations.

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Nature 571, 478 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02248-6

Supported by 22 signatories; see supplementary information.

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