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Duan Biggs

Duan Biggs

Duan Biggs is a professor and chair of Southwestern environmental science and policy at Northern Arizona University. His research and work is applied and focused on having a real-world policy and on-ground impact.

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Russia’s aggression threatens efforts to protect nature beyond Ukraine

By: , , and - February 23, 2023

The Russian invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022 has sent economic, social and political shock waves around the world. In a newly published policy brief, we and other researchers and conservation scientists describe how these effects extend to biodiversity conservation efforts far beyond Ukraine. Animals, plants and ecosystems don’t recognize political boundaries, so protecting […]