Efforts to join up isolated plant and animal habitats across the world should also protect against unintentionally harming them, new research shows.
Efforts to join up isolated plant and animal habitats across the world should also protect against unintentionally harming them, new research shows.
The paper, led by the Universities of Leeds and Oxford and published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity, states that work to connect fragmented wildlife habitats is essential - but it may also pose ecological risks including the unintentional spread of wildlife diseases and invasive species.
Wildlife or ecological corridors are areas of land connecting isolated habitats, allowing animals and plants to move, adapt and survive. They are essential for promoting biodiversity and enabling populations to breed and increase in number and diversity.
Read more at: University of Leeds
