India, Feb. 25 -- Restoration and rewilding programs in agricultural landscapes in some nations can incentivise production expansion in other countries, thus driving biodiversity loss in latter and causing a 'net harm', a new paper published in Science journal has highlighted.

Governments worldwide have been expanding protected areas to meet biodiversity targets under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which calls for protecting 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030. Similarly, under the European Green Deal, the European Union's Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 aims to reverse ecosystem degradation and protect at least 30 per cent of land and sea areas by the end of the decade.

However, conservation and restoration efforts...