UN biodiversity conference offers a chance to manage pressing ecological destruction

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the executive secretary of the United Nation's Convention on Biological Diversity. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Delegates from around the world are expected to gather in Montreal, Canada, this week to try to slow a decline in biodiversity. Scientists …
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