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New data on public biodiversity spending

A collation of national spending on biodiversity presents new data and explores the relationship with biodiversity loss, while also highlighting the difficulty in generating indicators for cross-national biodiversity assessment.

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Fig. 1: Spending trends.

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Groom, B., Weinhold, D.M. New data on public biodiversity spending. Nat Ecol Evol 5, 409–410 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01410-6

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