India, Feb. 21 -- Consumption of products by developed countries was responsible for biodiversity loss in other countries, a new study published in Nature on February 12, 2025, has shown.

The study, by Princeton University researchers, looked at how countries cause biodiversity loss outside their own borders through their demand for agricultural and forestry products grown in other countries. An instance being import of food or timber from other countries, leading those other countries to destroy their forests to produce the exports.

The study quantified for the first time the degree to which countries contributed to global biodiversity loss by shifting the environmental costs of their consumption abroad.

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