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Leaders grapple with finance and harmful subsidies at UN’s COP17 biodiversity conference

Mongabay31 October 2026, 07:07 UTCArmenia

YEREVAN, Armenia — Visitors entering the main hallway of the 2026 U.N. biodiversity conference (COP17) encounter a mural of a herd of elephants. The installation, led by the NGO Friends of the Earth International, doesn’t celebrate the gains that some elephant populations have made in recent decades. Instead, it uses the “elephants in the room” […]

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