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I am a researcher / explorer of Arecaceae species and pay the bills with cybersecurity work, this article definitely struck a chord. It is very difficult to get anyone to care about even the rare and beautiful species these days, let alone help the efforts in conservation.

I am working on a website that helps links people wanting to help learn and protect forests with the people with the background knowledge and those who are getting their fingers in the dirt, please reach out if you are interested in participating.

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Did you get into cybersecurity or plants first? Do you have some kind of formal qualifications for the plant research or how did you get started with it?

I would very much like to make a career switch to something that allows me to spend time in the nature, but I have no idea how that world works.

With Rhynchophorus roaming around, investing into rare palms is a high risk activity

This is very relevant to my interests, but there is no contact info in your bio...

I know this is unsatisfying, but I suspect that our approach to conservation will soon be "remember to slap the genome on S3 before turning their habitat into farmland".

Nature is gradually turning into a luxury we cannot afford.

> Nature is gradually turning into a luxury we cannot afford.

That makes no sense. We need nature more than ever.

There are more people than ever. That want to eat farmed food. Drive on roads. And live in houses. All of this takes land.

Then there is the renewable energy production that needs land too. Rivers valleys turn into hydro dams. Grass fields into solar fields.

Renewable energy production takes a minuscule amount of land compared to agriculture, and a lot of that land can be things like parking lots and roofs.

and majority of that agriculture land is for animal agriculture (which is probably obvious to everyone by now)

Due to the situation in Ukraine (big exporter of vegetable oil), the world is currently quite dependent on palm oil. You know the one they cut down rainforests to make. It was interesting to follow the politics around the Indonesia's temporary export ban back in May.

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