From Preservation to Restoration: How Emerging Biotechnologies Can Strengthen Conservation
Humanity faces an unprecedented biodiversity crisis: our sixth mass extinction . Only this time, it is driven not by natural forces but by human actions such as habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, overexploitation, and climate change. Extinction rates now exceed natural extinction levels by 1,000 to 10,000 times and species populations across the planet are collapsing at alarming rates. The World Wildlife Fund reports an average global decline of 69% in...