Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

2015/07/29 by Brian Machovina, Kenneth J. Feeley, William J. Ripple · 10 citations
Environmental Science · Health Professions · Medicine · #Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact #Indigenous Studies and Ecology #Zoonotic diseases and public health

paper · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.022

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Citations

• Proximate Causes and Underlying Driving Forces of Tropical Deforestation
• Livestock production: recent trends, future prospects
• The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection
• Eating up the world’s food web and the human trophic level
• Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains
• Defaunation in the Anthropocene
• Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies
• Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

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• Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals
• Evaluating the environmental impacts of dietary recommendations
• Toward Optimal Meat Pricing: Is It Time to Tax Meat Consumption?
• Meat Consumption and Sustainability
• Protecting Half the Planet and Transforming Human Systems Are Complementary Goals
• Holocene extinction [wikipedia]
• Human impact on the environment [wikipedia]
• Mammal [wikipedia]
• Meat [wikipedia]
• Veganism [wikipedia]