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Indigenous Wisdom Should be at the Heart of Climate Activism

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Indigenous Wisdom Should be at the Heart of Climate Activism

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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Indigenous wisdom should be at the heart of climate activism

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To tackle a problem as large as climate change, we need both science and Indigenous wisdom, says environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. In this engaging talk, she shares how her nomadic community in Chad is working closely with scientists to restore endangered ecosystems -- and offers lessons on how to create more resilient communities.

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Zoom in on the location of your landform and look at conservation, biodiversity, and human activities.

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Half Earth- Protected Areas Under Threat

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Half Earth- Protected Areas Under Threat

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This section of the Half Earth Project Map guides you through an exploration of how human activities are impacting protected areas.

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Human activities are placing growing pressure on the biodiversity of Earth's lands and seas. According to a study published recently in Science, protected areas - such as national parks, wilderness areas, community conserved areas, and nature reserves - are experiencing declines in their ability to protect nature because of the growth of human activities within them.

Since the 1992 Earth Summit, protected land has roughly doubled in size, with more than 202,000 protected areas now covering almost 15% of terrestrial areas. "The increasing growth and overall extent of protected areas is deservedly celebrated as a conservation success story," the authors said in the study, "and there is no doubt that well-managed protected areas can preserve biodiversity."

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Protected Areas Under Threat | Half-Earth

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Human activities are placing growing pressure on the biodiversity of Earth's lands and seas. According to a study published recently in Science, protected areas - such as national parks, wilderness areas, community conserved areas, and nature reserves - are experiencing declines in their ability to protect nature because of the growth of human activities within them.

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Scroll to the bottom to find a list of members of the Connectivity Policy Coalition, which "shapes and inspires national wildlife corridor legislation, administrative policy, and state-based initiatives that promote habitat connectivity for wildlife."

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The Connectivity Policy Coalition (CPC) shapes and inspires national wildlife corridor legislation, administrative policy, and state-based initiatives that promote habitat connectivity for wildlife. Since Wildlands Network formed the CPC in 2008, the coalition has grown to include 22 national and regional conservation organizations working to craft and implement policies to advance habitat connectivity.

Our current priorities are to:

collaborate with members of Congress to create national legislation aimed at protecting wildlife corridors;

work with the Department of the Interior to develop protections for corridors and connectivity for wildlife;

influence federal efforts to protect large landscapes as a mitigation and adaption response to climate change;

improve federal land management by integrating habitat connectivity for all species into U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management plans;

ensure that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protects endangered species, especially large carnivores such as grizzlies, wolves, and wolverines;

facilitate the engagement of local conservation groups in important federal land and wildlife management decisions.

The following organizations are members of the CPC, which is co-coordinated by Wildlands Network and the Center for Large Landscape Conservation.

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Connectivity Policy Coalition - Wildlands Network

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The Connectivity Policy Coalition (CPC) shapes and inspires national wildlife corridor legislation, administrative policy, and state-based initiatives that promote habitat connectivity for wildlife. Since Wildlands Network formed the CPC in 2008, the coalition has grown to include 22 national and regional conservation organizations working to craft and implement policies to advance habitat connectivity.

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Learn about a new policy proposal for conservation.

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Wildlands Network promotes wildlife corridors at the local, regional, and continental scales to protect and restore native species and habitats. We also advance science-driven laws and policies to enhance habitat connectivity. Recently, we helped spearhead a new bill that, if passed into law, will channel unprecedented resources toward the creation of wildlife corridors nationwide. U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA)-a strong advocate for citizens both human and wild-introduced the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act to Congress in 2016.

We anticipate the bill will be reintroduced in 2018 by Reps. Beyer and Garrett Graves (R-LA). Sen.Tom Udall (D-NM) is working on a similar bill to introduce in the Senate. In the meantime, we are working to build broader bipartisan support in Congress for the bill.

The Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act is supported by dozens of conservation organizations across the country, and by esteemed scientists like Wildlands Network co-founders Dr. Michael Soulé and Dr. Reed Noss, and renowned biologist Dr. E.O. Wilson.

The National Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act would provide the most important step of any single piece of legislation at the present time in enlarging the nation's protected areas and thereby saving large swaths of America's wildlife and other fauna and flora. Dr. E.O. Wilson

Making Wildlife Corridors a National Priority

The Take Action: Send Letter Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act would establish a National Wildlife Corridors System to "provide for the protection and restoration of native species and their habitat in the United States that have been diminished by habitat loss and fragmentation." It would grant the U.S. Department of the Interior authority to collaborate with other key agencies, states, tribes, and private landowners to develop a strategy for creating a national system of wildlife corridors.

Support National Wildlife Corridor Legislation

If enacted, the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act will restore habitat and protect America's native wildlife by establishing a National Wildlife Corridors System. Support this critically important federal legislation by urging your U.S. Representatives to cosponsor the bill with Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA). Let's raise our collective voices to protect America's natural heritage! Photo: Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission

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Among its other accomplishments, the Act would:

Grant authority to key federal agencies to designate wildlife corridors managed for the persistence, resilience, and adaptability of native species.

Mitigate harm to wildlife and threats to public safety where wildlife corridors cross roadways by implementing wildlife overpasses and underpasses and other strategies.

Establish the Wildlife Corridors Stewardship and Protection Fund to support the management and protection of wildlife corridors.

Afford federal agencies the authority to acquire land (including permanent conservation easements) from willing donors and sellers to establish and enhance wildlife corridors.

Require the U.S. Geological Survey to establish a publicly accessible, comprehensive National Native Species Habitats and Corridors Geographic Information System Database.

Benefits to Wildlife

Scientists have shown that connecting wildlife habitats is critical to conserving biodiversity in the face of climate change, which will increasingly trigger geographical shifts for wildlife populations, plant communities, and ecological processes. The Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act would help safeguard native flora and fauna throughout the U.S., and can serve as a model for other regions of the world.

Fully implemented, the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act would benefit many species of wildlife, from wide-ranging wild cats and pronghorns to grizzly bears and butterflies.

Florida panthers need wildlife corridors to disperse into new territory and to find suitable mates. Because panthers require such extensive areas of habitat, corridors help provide them with safe passage by linking together protected areas and securing alternate travel routes around densely populated cities and towns.

Every winter, pronghorns in the American West must embark on a grueling, 150-mile migration from Wyoming's Upper Green River Basin to feeding grounds in Grand Teton National Park. Unfortunately, roads, fences, and human development hinder this critical migration.

Grizzly bears, too, need Room to Roam©. Like other wild animals, grizzlies don't adhere to human boundaries, and our parks and other public lands are too small to sustain healthy populations. But when grizzlies venture outside of protected areas, they are prone to hunting, vehicle collisions, and conflicts with people.

Even small insects like North American monarch butterflies need wildlife corridors to migrate some 3,000 miles from summer habitats east of the Rockies to winter refuges in Mexico and California. Full migrations require 3 or 4 generations of butterflies, which must find safe places along the flyway to rest and reproduce.

Each of our America's myriad wildlife species has unique and pressing reasons for needing wildlife corridors, but one bold piece of legislation will benefit them all: the Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act!

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Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act - Wildlands Network

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Wildlands Network promotes wildlife corridors at the local, regional, and continental scales to protect and restore native species and habitats. We also advance science-driven laws and policies to enhance habitat connectivity. Recently, we helped spearhead a new bill that, if passed into law, will channel unprecedented resources toward the creation of wildlife corridors nationwide.

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Explore species by location and conservation using this website, which is a collaborative effort by researchers around the world.

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View species range map, inventory, and occurrence data