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

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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. Deer, for example, help cycle nutrients and fertilize soil. And that’s not the only bad news. An endangered Delmarva fox squirrel.

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