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What the Planet Needs Janet Sumner, Executive Director, Wildlands League The two great environmental challenges of our time biodiversity loss and climate change https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/world/sutter-vanishing- help/index.html The

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What the Planet Needs

Janet Sumner, Executive Director, Wildlands League

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The two great environmental challenges of our time

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biodiversity loss and climate change

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https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/12/world/sutter-vanishing- help/index.html

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The Earth is is

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the verge

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f 6th

th mass

ext xtinction event. Mass = 75% Today? 60%

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IPBES report is coming and it will likely say:

  • Nature is in freefall planet’s support systems are stretched
  • widespread species extinctions
  • mass human migration
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http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253

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Climate & Nature Interconnected & require urgent action

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According to Anthony Barnosky, an extin xtinction exp xpert from Stanford, we have at most 20 years to change

  • ur rela

lationship wit ith nature. . If If we do, , we can avoid id the sixth ixth extin xtinction.

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Canada

What can we do

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Ecoregions

Not Political Boundaries

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North West Passage and Arctic Oceans Great Lakes (24% of the planet’s freshwater) Emerald Edge (Temperate Rainforest)

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Boreal

Carbon stored (billions of tonnes) Twice as much per ha as the amazon global importance

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Boreal ➢40% of the birds ➢3 Billion birds travel north to the Boreal every year ➢5 Billion return south

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Mammal Movement

Yellowstone to Yukon backbone of the continent Algonquin to Adirondacks & the Appalachians Grasslands

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  • few regions have enough

protection

  • The most dire is in the south

because little remains intact

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Start with what the planet needs

In the south…

  • Rebuild, Restore, plant, nurture
  • Remove barriers to protection
  • corridors and connectivity
  • Climate Resilience, Flood Risk reduction
  • A Connected Network of protection
  • Human connection
  • Ethical Space
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The hemisphere is relying on you.

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What the Planet Needs

Protect enough land, freshwater and oceans

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What the Planet Needs

Janet Sumner, Executive Director, Wildlands League