UNiikki is the Turku UN Association’s blog, which publishes articles on the activities of the association, current UN issues, and other social topics.
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Biodiversity and “ecosystem services”
Global biodiversity loss is increasingly identified as at least as serious an environmental threat as climate change. The two are also intertwined, but by nature there are two different types of phenomena, because, unlike the atmosphere, the diversity of the biosphere is not evenly distributed on Earth but, for example, tropical rainforests make up a…