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Researchers find development and conservation aren’t mutually exclusive • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- August 2, 2019
Researchers from the Zoological Society of London and UCL have found a clear link between economic development and improved biodiversity. The boffins compared bird and mammal populations with socioeconomic trends in 33 low and middle-income countries. They found positive relationships between economic growth and wildlife abundance: “The richer the people, the safer the biodiversity.” Dr
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Salvini crackdown: bulldozers clear Italian camp housing 1,500 refugees | Global development 0
- BUSINESS
- March 6, 2019
More than 1,500 people are being ousted from the refugee camp at San Ferdinando, in southern Italy, in the first major eviction since Italy’s rightwing populist government’s immigration measures kicked in. On Wednesday morning, almost 1,000 paramilitary police officers surrounded the 400 shacks where the migrants have lived since the camp was established in 2010,
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Congo’s election: a defeat for democracy, a disaster for the people | Global development 0
- BUSINESS
- February 9, 2019
The major players in the international community have accepted the outcome of January’s elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the name of stability. In doing so, they have failed the Congolese people. Moreover, they have fallen short of the aspirations of the UN’s sustainable development goals, which call for “accountable and
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