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Planet Earth Online has an article in which scientists have identified 15 potential top conservation threats or opportunities.  They include:

• Response of financial markets to unburnable carbon
• Extensive land loss in southeast Asia from subsidence of peatlands
• Carbon solar cells as alternative source of renewable energy
• Rapid geographic expansion of macroalgal cultivation for biofuels
• Redistribution of global temperature increases among ecosystems
• High-frequency monitoring of land-cover change
• Reaccelerated loss of wild rhinoceroses and elephants
• Increasing scale of eradications of non-native mammals on islands
• Self-sustaining genetic systems for control of non-native invasive species
• Probiotic therapy for amphibians
• Emerging snake fungal disease
• Polyisobutylene as a marine toxicant
• Exploitation of Antarctica
• Expansion of ecosystem red listing
• Resurrection of extinct species

Read full article at Planet Earth Online: Scientists identify top conservation threats and opportunities.