Mapping how to feed 9 billion humans, while avoiding environmental calamity
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The first step of the “Safety Net” initiative is to identify the best opportunities to protect and restore ecosystems that underpin human well-being and sustain healthy wildlife populations. That means incorporating data on variables ranging from species richness to climate trends to deforestation rates for every point on Earth’s surface.
That task is being taken up by a consortium of groups led by RESOLVE, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit; Globaïa, a Canadian data visualization group; and Brazil’s Universidade Federal de Viçosa. Heading up the terrestrial mapping is Eric Dinerstein, a biologist who formerly served as chief scientist for WWF and now has the same role at RESOLVE.
Dinerstein answered questions about the Safety Net Map during a November 7, 2017 interview with Mongabay.com.