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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. And that’s not the only bad news. Fish and Wildlife Service) This bounty of mammals may have to do with some of their practices.

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Vineyards Are Laying the Groundwork for a Regenerative Farm Future

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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. Long, diverse grasses blanket the ground around and between the vines. Soil carbon sequestration is one indicator that we’re on the right track.”

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