Sep 21, 2023
September 21, 2023, traditional unceded Algonquin Territory/Ottawa, Ontario – Canadian environmental groups presented shared recommendations to the federal government on how Canada must act urgently to meet its global commitments to protect and restore nature under the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) agreed to at COP 15 in Montreal last December.
“To achieve the GBF targets Canadians and the world will need to take actions that rethink and transform how we protect and use the natural world,” said David Browne, Director of Conservation Science, Canadian Wildlife Federation. “Conserving the ecosystems that sustain us will mean changing things like how we grow and produce food and fiber, how we build and grow our cities, and how we continue to move goods around the world without spreading invasive species or harming marine wildlife. Examples of biodiversity loss are all around us when we see salmon and cod decline, moose and caribou become less common, or grasslands and old growth forests lost. We need to take action now to conserve and restore biodiversity for the future!”
