Join Amanda, our foundation & corporate relations director, at the North American Congress for Conservation Biology in Vancouver, Canada where two representatives from our Center for Conservation Innovation present, workshop, and share science on the Endangered Species and and biodiversity conservation.
Video Transcript:
I am here in lovely Vancouver, Canada this week attending the North American Congress
for Conservation Biology.
This is an amazing opportunity from scientists from the U.S., Canada and other places to come together and share their knowledge about wildlife conservation and coexistence, among other topics.
I’m excited to tag along with a couple of leaders from our Center for Conservation Innovation who are giving talks about the Endangered Species Act and our 30 by 30 mapping work.
We just finished up, a workshop with a great group, had a great discussion, and the topic was centered around mapping and selecting priority places for conserving biodiversity, but also for, improving benefits to people, particularly those in underserved communities.
Since we just celebrated the 50th anniversary of Endangered Species Act, we thought this conference was a perfect place to kind of take stock of the act.
My presentation was on recovery under the Endangered Species Act.
The ESA’s primary goal is recovery – to recover species to the point where they no longer need
the protections of the act.
While the ESA has been very successful about preventing extinction, it hasn’t been quite successful
in recovering species so they’re off the list.
So I looked at some of the barriers, some of the political barriers, some of the funding barriers,
and some of the kind of bureaucratic issues that arise that have prevented full ESA recovery under the act.
What an amazing experience to learn more about the Endangered Species Act and biodiversity conservation.
You can learn more about how the Center for Conservation Innovation is helping to defend wildlife and wild places by visiting our website – defenders.org.
Defenders Of Wildlife works on the ground, in the courts, and on Capitol Hill to protect and restore imperiled wildlife and habitats across North America.
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