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Treaty talks to save more migratory species

Delegates from 111 nations at a U.N. conference in India met to protect migratory species and their habitats at a time when nature is nearing a breaking point.

Sandhill cranes and snow geese in sunrise light at Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado
Sandhill cranes and snow geese in sunrise light at Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado (AN/Patrick Myers)

Delegates from 111 nations gathered in western India on Monday for a U.N. conference to protect migratory species and their habitats at a time when human actions are forcing Earth’s natural life support systems to a breaking point.

How best to protect and conserve animals that migrate along set routes in search of food or breeding grounds is the focus of a week-long Conference of Parties, or COP, to the United Nations-brokered Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, also known as the Convention on Migratory Species, or CMS, and the Bonn Convention.

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