23 February 2018

Symposium: Safeguarding Space for Nature and Securing Our future; 27-28 February 2018

Cheetah space for nature


The challenge
We are rapidly losing Earth’s wild species and wild spaces, with global vertebrate populations having declined by two-thirds by in the last 40 years.  Under the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have pledged to protect at least 17% of land and freshwater and 10% of our oceans by 2020.  The plan focuses on areas of importance for biodiversity and ecosystem services in systems of effective, equitable and ecologically connected protected and conserved areas.  Beyond these milestone targets, conservationists, scientists and policymakers are grappling with the question of how much space needs to be conserved - and how - in order to sustain humans and the rest of life on earth.  Over the next few years, governments will be reviewing the current Strategic Plan and considering a new strategy to meet the vision of conserving biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem services and a healthy planet for all by 2050, as part of the wider 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 
 

The symposium
As part of the process to develop a post-2020 strategy, this symposium will bring together international scientists, conservation practitioners, policy-makers, business leaders, civil society and donors to:

  • Review the science informing future area-based conservation targets
  • Evaluate the implications of various policy options
  • Provide balanced, evidence-based recommendations to Parties to the CBD and other policy processes
  • Raise awareness of the need for a more ambitious, holistic and effective strategy to safeguard space for nature, incorporating protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures.

Read More: https://www.zsl.org/science/whats-on/safeguarding-space-for-nature-and-securing-our-future-developing-a-post-2020

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