Abstract:Biodiversity loss is a central issue in conservation biology, being protected areas the primary approach to stop biodiversity loss. However, education has been identified as an important factor in this regard. Based on a database of threatened species and socio-economic features for 138 countries, we tested whether more protected areas or more education investment are associated with a lower proportion of threatened species (for different groups of vertebrates and plants). We found that education investment wa… Show more
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