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How can we balance people’s needs with conserving biodiversity?

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Is it possible to use natural resources effectively and protect the Earth’s wildlife and biodiversity? Oxford University scientists have proposed a new framework that could achieve exactly that. William Arlidge, a doctoral student and Professor EJ Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity; Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science; Fellow of Merton College, discuss their new research as featured in BioScience.

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Solving the problems of Brexit with 500-year-old wisdom

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Meet the academics hoping to heal the divisions in modern society using a 16th-Century work of speculative fiction.

There once was an island that was connected to a larger continent by a small but significant link. But then one day the citizens of this island decided to irrevocably separate themselves from the mainland, in order to pursue a dramatic and some might say unrealistic vision of a better society.

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