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Britain's obsession with rewilding could drive extinctions, study says

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Researchers from over a dozen institutions worldwide including the University of Cambridge have come together to warn that this effect is largely neglected when discussing conservation efforts.

They applied real-world food and biodiversity data to hypothetical conservation projects.

They discovered that if 1,000km2 of arable farmland in the UK that produced wheat, barley and oilseed rape was reclaimed for nature, production of these products would be displaced to Australia , Germany , Italy and Ukraine .

The damage from this leakage’ could be five times greater than the local benefit to British diversity, they said.

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81

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English

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58

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