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NEW YORK (December 7, 2022) — A delegation from the Nationwide Audubon Society, the main chicken conservation group within the Americas, will be part of world leaders as they reconvene for the second a part of the UN Conference on Biodiversity COP15 in Montreal this month. Audubon CEO Elizabeth Grey, will head the delegation, which additionally contains Chief Conservation Officer Marshall Johnson, Board Director and acclaimed wildlife advocate Jane Alexander, Senior Vice President of Audubon Americas Aurelio Ramos, and Vice President for Boreal Conservation Jeff Wells, amongst others.
COP15’s theme, “Constructing a Shared Future for All Life on Earth,” is in full alignment with Audubon’s mission and present bold agenda to guard birds and the locations they want. Birds are the canaries within the coal mine of biodiversity loss. In 2019 Audubon scientists found that in North America alone, two-thirds of chicken species are susceptible to extinction as a consequence of local weather change. However birds also can level the way in which to nature-based options that can ship advantages for all life on Earth.
“Throughout the globe, the lack of chicken populations has been a harbinger of biodiversity loss, however birds also can level the way in which ahead,” says Audubon CEO Elizabeth Grey. “Guaranteeing that they’ve wholesome habitats and flyways is important not just for birds and their ecosystems, however for all life. It’s important that conservation organizations work along with Indigenous governments and communities, native teams, governments, and the non-public sector. At Audubon, we’re taking pressing and impressive collective motion to safeguard the long run for each folks and wildlife.”
As Audubon scientists present in a 2021 examine, important chicken habitats typically overlap with key ecosystems like forests, wetlands, and peatlands, which additionally function pure carbon sinks and habitats for a lot of species. Conserving and defending these landscapes not solely offers protected havens for birds and different wildlife, however helps mitigate the results of local weather change.
Based in 1905, the Nationwide Audubon Society is a nonprofit conservation group — with a wingspan of over 500 nationwide chapters and 1.6 million members — that protects birds and their ecosystems. From shutting down the plumage commerce, to banning the pesticides that precipitated the “Silent Spring,” to mobilizing to cross the Endangered Species Act, the Clear Air Act, and the Clear Water Act, Audubon has been on the forefront in preserving the planet for nature and other people alike for over a century.
As we speak, Audubon works straight throughout the Americas and in partnership with organizations internationally to guard birds and the locations they want. Audubon companions with the clear power trade and lawmakers to ramp up renewable power manufacturing and mitigate wildlife interactions, and leads analysis on the resiliency of lots of of chicken species and their habitats in addition to the affect of local weather change on the locations they dwell. The Audubon Americas program brings a hemispheric method to defending birds over their total lifecycle in partnership with quite a few different international locations and Indigenous governments and communities.
“The pure world that birds and different species are essentially dependent upon doesn’t respect worldwide borders and divisions. Environmental challenges and options in any a part of the globe can have an effect on us all.” says Audubon Board Director and acclaimed wildlife advocate Jane Alexander, “At this convention, we should come collectively as a worldwide society to beat these divides and safeguard the widespread way forward for all dwelling beings.”
At COP15, Audubon shall be participating with world leaders, Indigenous leaders, the NGO sector, the enterprise group, youth, and others to develop, advocate for, and assist implement efficient methods for conserving and restoring biodiversity. Audubon engages its numerous membership and quite a few companions in selling the simplest nature-based options to the dual crises of local weather change and biodiversity loss utilizing science, advocacy, training, and on-the-ground conservation.
“Conserving and defending birds and their habitats is the reply to most of the useful resource challenges that shall be mentioned at this convention,” says Audubon Chief Conservation Officer Marshall Johnson. “We should undertake methods which are collaborative, equitable, and harmonious with nature. Audubon and our companions on the forefront of the conservation motion can assist cleared the path.”
“Hemispheric cooperation to guard birds and biodiversity, which incorporates Canada and international locations throughout the Americas in addition to Indigenous governments and communities, can function a mannequin for a way leaders at COP15 can collaborate to guard nature wherever on this planet,” says Senior Vice President of Audubon Americas Aurelio Ramos.
Audubon can even co-host three aspect occasions on the Montreal COP to which the press is invited:
- “The Launch of the Americas Flyways Initiative” will rejoice a strategic alliance between Audubon, BirdLife Worldwide, and the Latin American and the Caribbean Improvement Financial institution (CAF). This groundbreaking hemispheric collaboration will drive scientific analysis and financing in biodiversity conservation, in addition to sustainable monetary investments. This progressive collaboration can even assist the design and implementation of large-scale growth initiatives throughout a community of linked websites shared by migratory birds alongside the Americas’ flyways. The launch announcement shall be held on the GEF Pavilion on December sixteenth at 10:00 AM.
- “Listening to the Birds — How Indigenous organizations are co-producing acoustic analysis to tell conservation and stewardship,” shall be co-hosted alongside the Seal River Watershed Alliance (SRWA), a partnership of 4 First Nations to defend a wholesome watershed and safeguard all life on Earth. Indigenous governments and communities have long-played a useful function in environmental stewardship, together with ongoing efforts to determine Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCA) that protect boreal lands. The occasion will happen in the Canada Pavilion on December seventeenth at 11:30 AM.
- “The World Treasure – Boreal Forests, peat bogs, and ocean” shall be co-hosted with Wildlands League, Mushkegowuk Council, Weenusk First Nation, and Wildlife Conservation Society. The occasion will happen within the Canada Pavilion on December 11 at 2:00 PM
About Audubon
The Nationwide Audubon Society protects birds and the locations they want, in the present day and tomorrow. Audubon works all through the Americas utilizing science, advocacy, training, and on-the-ground conservation. State packages, nature facilities, chapters, and companions give Audubon an unparalleled wingspan that reaches thousands and thousands of individuals every year to tell, encourage, and unite numerous communities in conservation motion. A nonprofit conservation group since 1905, Audubon believes in a world during which folks and wildlife thrive. Study extra at www.audubon.org and on Fb, Twitter and Instagram @audubonsociety.
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