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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

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land, with cropland expanding by 1 million acres per year, fueling habitat loss for wildlife and mammals. First of all, farmland reduces mammals’ natural habitats and diminishes their ability to find shelter as well as food and prey, explained Koen Kuipers, a researcher at Radboud University in the Netherlands.

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Vineyards Are Laying the Groundwork for a Regenerative Farm Future

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But even during these dormant months, across 17 rolling acres just 30 miles east of Washington, D.C., Three acres of meadows provide habitat for insects. Compared to staple crops like corn and rice, wine grapes barely occupy a speck of the world’s farmland, at about 18 million acres.

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