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Press Release – UN News An area of land roughly the size of China needs restoring if the planets biodiversity and the communities who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) and UN Environment Programmes ( … An area of land roughly the size of China needs restoring if the planet’s biodiversity and the communities who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) call to reinstate at least one billion degraded hectares of land by 2030 must also be matched by a similar commitment to the oceans, or else risk a growing threat to global food security, they added.

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