International Conservation Fund of Canada’s Molly Bartlett hopes her group’s US$100-million biodiversity pledge prompts others to think more about conservation beyond the country’s borders
A Canadian philanthropic organization that specializes in conservation abroad has made a US$100-million pledge to increase its global impact – a fourfold expansion over its previous efforts, which the organization says is needed to help counter a growing biodiversity crisis.
That target – also known as 30x30 – has been gaining momentum among conservation advocates and is likely to be at the centre of talks at the next United Nations conference on biodiversity, set to take place in the spring in Kunming, China.Molly Bartlett, executive director of the Nova Scotia-based ICFC, said that she hoped her organization’s pledge, announced this past week, would prompt individuals and policy-makers alike in Canada to think more about conservation beyond the country’s borders.
“We need to mobilize additional finance to support the implementation of 30x30 globally and to promote collaboration and coherence between donors and implementers to have great impact on the ground,” he said. “The conservation community recognized that if it were not for the Kayapo people, that forest would be long gone,” said Canadian ecologist Barbara Zimmerman, who has directed the project since she founded it in the early 1990s.
Brazil and Canada are among the countries that pledged to end deforestation by 2030 in a statement signed this past week during UN climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland. But biodiversity experts say that many of the world’s most ecologically sensitive regions don’t have that much time. Norway, which also signed the deforestation pledge, has separately indicated that it wants to see a more concrete commitment from Brazil before restoring funding that it suspended in 2019.
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