Northeast Asia Environment’s Diversity Threatened
Irreplaceable biological region in urgent need of preservation
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By: Gregory McCann
With Earth’s sixth mass extinction well underway, Northeast Asia is an overlooked and irreplaceable biological region in urgent need of preservation. An area regarded as nothing but a frozen tundra and arid steppe crawling with little more than marmots and reindeer, is nonetheless filled with tigers, leopards, bears and owls along with…
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