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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 Earth is is on th the verge th mass f 6 th of ext xtinction event. Mass = 75% Today? 60%

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

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253

Climate & Nature Interconnected & require urgent action

According to Anthony Barnosky, an extin xtinction exp xpert from Stanford, we have at most 20 years to change our rela lationship wit ith nature. . If If we do, , we can avoid id the sixth ixth extin xtinction.

Canada What can we do

Ecoregions Not Political Boundaries

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

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

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

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

• few regions have enough protection • The most dire is in the south because little remains intact

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

The hemisphere is relying on you.

What the Planet Needs Protect enough land, freshwater and oceans

What the Planet Needs Janet Sumner, Executive Director, Wildlands League