Vanguard: Nature’s riches can play a major role in poverty eradication, but only if governments and businesses recognise the true economic value of the goods and services our environment provides us. This is the central message of a free book published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Birdlife International and Pavan Sukhdev, leader of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study. It warns that biodiversity loss is not only an environmental …