We are currently living through the sixth mass extinction. Man-made interventions such as climate change, land-system change (urban development, deforestation, monocrops), and introduction of novel entities (e.g. plastics and chemical pollution) have breached the Earth’s planetary boundaries of safe operating levels, leading to cascading reduction of biological diversity. Today, the UN’s COP15 on Biodiversity kicking off in Montreal will be the biggest UN biodiversity conference in…
