The Nature Conservancy in Mississippi’s Post

This is an important example of how we can mitigate impacts of climate change and increase biodiversity.

Nature-based solutions in action. Great to see a project being implemented in colder waters. Interested to see how it performs.

I'm still buzzing about The Nature Conservancy in Texas achieving its 1 Million Acres protected milestone! Check out this excellent StoryMap, created by Lauren Lombardo and our team, to learn more: https://lnkd.in/ghs5kddr 1 million acres is big but how big? If you added up the municipal footprints of these American cities below (not their metro areas) - it would roughly add up to 1 million acres

Every February 2nd, World Wetlands Day joins people around the globe in celebrating the value and beauty of our planet’s wetlands. It calls nations and each of us to act on behalf of these highly productive natural environments whose existence is interlaced with our own. This year’s campaign spotlights how interconnected wetlands and human life are — with people drawing sustenance, inspiration and resilience from these productive ecosystems. Importantly, the theme for 2024 underscores how all aspects of human wellbeing are tied to the health of the world’s wetlands. It calls on each of us to value and steward our wetlands. Every wetland matters. Every effort counts. About 35% of wetlands have disappeared since the 1970s. Those that remain are vanishing three times faster than forests. As a direct result, species are declining faster than at any time in human history and the pace is accelerating – with wetland species declining most. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a call for the protection and revival of ecosystems around the world. It runs from 2021 to 2030. By 2030, let’s reverse the decline of natural wetlands!

Was honoured to meet with Tony Maas, Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister, to discuss Canada's 2030 National Biodiversity Strategy and the proposed Nature Accountability Act. It's crucial that this Strategy has legal-teeth, holds up Indigenous rights and titles, and is adequately funded. Perhaps we can redirect subsidies from nature-harming industries (looking at you old growth and clear-cut logging) to fund this Strategy over the long-term. We also identified a low-hanging fruit win for the federal government: introduce a mandatory 1,000-metre vessel buffer for recreational and commercial whale-watching vessels around endangered Southern Resident killer whales. This would match the protections provided by Washington State after the passing of their Senate Bill 5371, which will come into effect in 2025. #science #policy #biodiversity

Did you know that there are some plants right here in Middle Tennessee that occur nowhere else on the planet? Take the Tennessee coneflower (Echinacea tennesseensis), for example. It’s found in Davidson, Rutherford, and Wilson counties, TN—and nowhere else, period. That’s because the ecosystem that supports it only occurs in the Central Basin. This ecosystem is the cedar glade. Unfortunately, cedar glades and all the unique species they support are in big trouble. They are naturally flat and without trees, which makes glades very vulnerable to development. To make matters worse, dumping, ATV joy riding, and fire suppression have greatly diminished the integrity of what few of these habitats remain. If not protected and managed correctly, the globally rare cedar glade will disappear right before our eyes. It is therefore our duty as Tennesseans to preserve them now for generations to come. Discover and protect cedar glades. Learn more here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3HfNBDk 📸 Tennessee coneflower, courtesy of The Nature Conservancy

REASONS TO BID: FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Bid in our 2024 Auction at astauction.org Our work is focused on restoring wild Atlantic salmon as a keystone and indicator species, but working to deliver #coldcleanwater will bring far reaching benefits for the wider environment too. A healthy environment in freshwater, around our coasts and at sea is essential for all wildlife to thrive. Together with local organisations, our catchment partnership programmes are: ⛏️ Removing manmade barriers to fish migration. 🌳 Restoring native woodland, wetland and peatland habitats. 💧 Taking action to reduce the impact of droughts and floods. 🌡️ Taking action to protect against rising temperatures. 🧬 Using eDNA to map species biodiversity in river catchments. 🪲 Monitoring invertebrate populations. Every bid in this year's auction counts and helps us to continue on our mission to restore wild Atlantic salmon AND their environment.

The PrintReleaf Standard shows our commitment to restoration and conservation efforts, to grow into forests that will last generations. Learn more about our twofold certification process for reforestation. https://hubs.li/Q02jVBwv0

The increase in catastrophic wildfires can be traced back to the loss of Indigenous stewardship of forests. When the 2020 CZU Fire, which burned 86,000 acres in the Santa Cruz mountains, reached San Vicente Redwoods, the flames seemed to cause more damage in areas where trees had grown back too close together–the result of its logging past–or where more fuels like branches and dry brush had built up over the century or more of fire suppression. 🔥 Beginning in the late 18th century, Spanish missions barred Indigenous Peoples from utilizing small fires that can reduce fuels, support the growth of fire adapted native plants, and return nutrients to the soil–a tool they had used to care for the land and the food sources they relied on for millennia. Taking fire suppression even further, for nearly 100 years the U.S. government’s policy for all federal land management agencies was to fight all fires even those in remote wilderness areas. 🔥 Helping Indigenous peoples regain leadership roles in conservation and revitalize their cultural connection to ancestral landscapes will help us all. Read more about indigenous stewardship at San Vicente Redwoods: https://bit.ly/3u3m2tf