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Our ongoing extinction crisis (1) poses an existential threat to civilization (2), yet almost all biodiversity conservation strategies are underfunded (3). As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic exposes the fragile foundation of global conservation (4), the ability of current conservation strategies to prevent the accelerated loss of biodiversity has become even more precarious.
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