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Vast parts of Earth should be left wild

To avoid mass extinctions of plants and animals, governments should protect a third of the oceans and land by 2030 and half by 2050, with a focus on areas of high biodiversity. So say leading biologists in an editorial in the journal Science.

This isn't just about saving biodiverse areas, says Jonathan Baillie of the National Geographic Society,one of the authors. It is also about saving ourselves by protecting_____ natural systems, or ecosystems,and their benefits to us, known as ecosystem services. "We are learning that the large areas that remain are important for providing services for all life. The forests, for example, are_____ for absorbing and storing carbon," says Baillie.

At present, just 3.6 per cent of the planet's oceans and 14.7 per cent of land is protected by law. At the 2010 Nagoya Conference of the Convention on Biological Diversity, governments agreed to protect 10 per cent of the oceans and 17 per cent of land by 2020.

But this isn't nearly enough, says Baillie. In the editorial, he and his coauthor, Ya﹣Ping Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, want governments to set much bigger_____ at the next major conference on biodiversity in 2020.

"We have to enormously_____ our ambition if we want to avoid an extinction crisis and if we want to maintain the ecosystem services that we_____ benefit from," says Baillie. "The trends are in a_____direction, it's just we have to move much faster."

It is hard to work out how much space is needed to preserve biodiversity and ecosystem_____, the pair say, because there is so much we don't know about life on Earth ﹣ like how many species there are.

_____   most estimates suggest that between 25 and 75 percent of high biodiversity regions or major ecosystems should be protected.Therefore,we, including governments,should be_____   when setting goals and strategies.

"There is no doubt that we need far more land and sea_____ for conserving and retaining nature,"says James Watson at the University of Queensland in Australia. "Targets like 50 per cent are in the right ball park when it comes to the minimal_____ of area needed to conserve biodiversity."

But Watson and others stress that which areas get protected is even more important than the overall percentage. "The key thing is to protect the right areas," says Jose Montoya of the Station for Theoretical and Experimental Ecology in Moulis, France. "If we_____ protect a proportion of the territory,governments will likely protect what's easy, and that's usually areas of_____ biodiversity and ecosystem service provision."

In fact, a third of the 3.6 percent of land that is already meant to be protected is actually being_____,Watson's team reported last month. So only_____ areas to be protected isn't enough.

1.
A.stricterB.widerC.saferD.simpler
2.
A.uniqueB.sufficientC.criticalD.fit
3.
A.examplesB.valuesC.awardsD.objectives
4.
A.increaseB.achieveC.lackD.frustrate
5.
A.barelyB.currentlyC.roughlyD.thoroughly
6.
A.oppositeB.fixedC.complexD.positive
7.
A.approachesB.managementC.benefitsD.degradation
8.
A.ThereforeB.FurthermoreC.HoweverD.Otherwise
9.
A.concernedB.changeableC.firmD.cautious
10.
A.desertedB.securedC.measuredD.distributed
11.
A.damageB.costC.amountD.standard
12.
A.completelyB.merelyC.virtuallyD.desperately
13.
A.massB.tropicalC.marineD.low
14.
A.exploitedB.expandedC.restoredD.discovered
15.
A.developingB.coveringC.declaringD.utilizing
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