<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2025/link-2025-02-msu-researchers-bring-new-approach-to-stopping-the-biodiversity-crisis.aspx" dsn="blogs"><title>MSU researchers bring new approach to stopping the biodiversity crisis</title><description><span>What if saving one animal species from extinction at a time isn’t the most effective approach? </span><a href="https://directory.natsci.msu.edu/Directory/Profiles/Person/104283?org=4&amp;group=61"><span>Michael Belitz</span></a><span>,</span><span> asked himself that question during his graduate work protecting a single butterfly species.</span></description><pubDate>02/25/2025</pubDate><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2025/belitz.png" alt="A young man stands in a forest with a butterfly net."/></image><externalNewsArticleLink>https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2025/msu-researchers-bring-new-approach-to-stopping-the-biodiversity-crisis</externalNewsArticleLink><categories>Discovery Science</categories><broadcast>eeb</broadcast></item>