Ron Sutherland, Chief Scientist
Wildlands Network
Dr. Sutherland will present the case for reconnecting, rewilding, and restoring natural habitats in order to save biodiversity and prevent extinctions. Centuries of habitat loss and road-building have taken their toll on ecosystems around the world, and the resulting fragmentation poses a huge obstacle to climate change adaptation and day-to-day survival. Fortunately, there is a solution: we can do far more to stitch the remaining wild landscapes back together into functional networks, creating wildlife corridors and installing wildlife road crossings to boost habitat connectivity. By scaling these efforts up, we can still get to protecting Half-Earth, E.O. Wilson’s audacious and optimistic goal of saving at least 50% of the planet in order to protect 90% of the Earth’s species from extinction.
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