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Corridors of carbon and biodiversity

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Reducing tropical deforestation has huge potential for mitigating climate change and saving the Earth's most biologically diverse biome. Corridors connecting existing protected areas represent an elegant means of attaining both goals.

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Figure 1: Forested corridor in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

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  1. Oscar Venter is at the Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, and the School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland 4878, Australia,

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