Working lands play a key role in protecting biodiversity

• Diversifying working lands  including farmland, rangeland and forests may be key to preserving biodiversity in the face of climate change, by a new review article. 
• These changes could extend the habitat of critters like bats, but also much larger creatures like bears, elk and other wildlife, outside the boundaries of protected areas, while creating more sustainable, and potentially more productive, working lands.
• We just can't keep mining our soils for their fertility and polluting our streams -- in the end, this will diminish our capacity to continue producing the food that we need.
•  Instead, we must pay attention to the species, from microbes to mammals, that supply us with critical services, like pollination, pest control and nutrient cycling.

SOURCE : SCIENCE DAILY