Biodiversity Conference Commits to Protect 30% of Natural World

A UN biodiversity conference called COP15 has ended with a deal involving 196 countries. Find out why environmentalists are hailing it as a landmark agreement, and what it will take to put its terms in place.

In grade seven, we took a field trip to the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre near Midland, Ontario. It consists of 3,000 acres of wetlands and woodlands…