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Masada National Park, Israel. Photo by Rob Bye.

CPAWS Conservation Plan: 50% At Least

Posted in News & Publications, Papers & Publications on 02/8/12

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, 2007 CPAWS Conservation plan calls for at least 50% of Canada’s public lands and waters to be protected. This number is based on the best available science about what is necessary to keep vibrant evolving ecosystems and all the species that inhabit them alive through time. It also represents the belief that our one species can share the earth with all the others. >>Read the...

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Saving Nature’s Legacy: Protecting and Restoring

Posted in News & Publications, Papers & Publications on 02/8/12

Reed F. Noss and Allen Y. Cooperrider in Saving Nature's Legacy: Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity (Island Press, Washington, D.C., 1994) Noss & Cooperrider reviewed many conservation planning initiatives and determined that between 25% and 75% protection was necessary to maintain ecological integrity. Written by two leading conservation biologists, Saving Nature's Legacy is a thorough and readable introduction to issues of land management and conservation biology. It presents a broad, land-based...

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Half of B.C. must be protected as hedge against climate change

Posted in News & Publications, Papers & Publications on 02/8/12

Half of B.C. must be protected as hedge against climate change, by Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun January 27, 2010 The B.C. government is being asked to develop a joint strategy for nature conservation and climate change leading to biodiversity protection for half the province's land base. A coalition of leading environmental groups says that existing parks and protected areas cover almost 15 per cent of the land base -- not...

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Kativik (Quebec) Environmental Advisory Committee: Position Paper

Posted in News & Publications, Papers & Publications on 02/8/12

Kativik (Quebec) Environmental Advisory Committee, November 2011 Position Paper The government commitment to dedicate 50% of Plan Nord lands to environmental protection, maintaining biodiversity, promoting our natural heritage and a variety of types of development that do not rely on industrial activities. >>Read the full paper >>Read the full paper in French

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The Scary New Math of Warming

Posted in Library, News & Publications on 02/8/12

Toronto Star, The Scary New Math of Warming; published 21 November 2009 by Peter Gorrie A recent environmental summit set ambitious new targets for reducing greenhouse gasses. If new environmental campaigns take hold, you'll hear a lot about two numbers during the next few months. If they succeed, you could find yourself living, and thinking, differently. The numbers are 350 and 50. The first is a target for reducing the...

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Conservation Beyond Crisis Management

Posted in Library, News & Publications on 02/8/12

Conservation Beyond Crisis Management: A Conservation-Matrix Model A Discussion Paper for the Canadian BEACONs Project In many regions of the world, failure to plan effectively for conservation of biological diversity has led to irretrievable losses of ecosystem structure and function or, at least, a need for expensive and risky restoration efforts. In relatively intact systems, planning pro-actively for biological conservation requires a systems approach that integrates the fields of conservation...

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Conservation Targets: Do They Help?

Posted in Library, News & Publications on 02/8/12

Conservation Targets: Do They Help? By Michael E. Soulé & M. A. Sanjayan; Science, New Series, Vol. 279, No. 5359. (Mar. 27, 1998), pp. 2060-2061. The most irreversible environmental problem of this era is the projected rapid loss of biodiversity, including the disappearance of up to half the world's species. In response, many international commissions and nature conservation organizations have called for the near-term protection of at least 10 or...

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How Much is Enough?

Posted in Library, News & Publications on 02/8/12

Center for Large Landscape Conservation; Literature Review on Select Topics in Landscape Conservation; May 27, 2010 How much is enough? What is the minimum area required to ensure the maintenance of biodiversity in an area? A 10 percent (or 12%) conservation target of land area in each nation (Myers 1979, Miller 1984, Soule and Sanjayan 1998) is frequently cited and has been recurrently used in setting policy, though with little...

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We Need to Scale Up Marine Protection: A Global Perspective

Posted in News & Publications, Papers & Publications on 01/20/12

We Need to Scale Up Marine Protection: A Global Perspective (International Journal of Wilderness, December, 2011, www.ijw.org ) Cyril F. Kormos (Vice President for Policy, The WILD Foundation; World Commission for Protected Areas, Co-Chair, North America) News reports of the declining health of our planet’s oceans have become sadly routine: from dwindling blue fin tuna stocks to the deepwater oil spills, and from reports of retreating sea ice in the...

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A New Spatial Perspective for a Healthy Planet

Posted in News & Publications, Papers & Publications on 01/20/12

A New Spatial Perspective for a Healthy Planet (International Journal of Wilderness, December, 2011, www.ijw.org ); Dr Magnus Sylven (environmental consultant; Co-Chair, WILD10, the 10th World Wilderness Congress; former Director, WWF Europe) Human impact on the world since the Industrial Revolution has been so comprehensive that it has ushered in a new geological epoch, which scientists have called the Anthropocene (Smith 2008). Impacts on the Earth’s physical, chemical, and biological...

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