A nature-positive future is a people-positive future.
Governments, scientists and conservation experts are gathering in Montreal for a global summit on nature, called COP15. There, they will set a course to end nature loss around the world and to create a nature-positive future. But what does that really mean for us, here in British Columbia?
Consider our wetlands, for example. Across the province, marshes, bogs, estuaries and other wetland ecosystems are vanishing as our human footprint expands. The loss has been substantial in places like the South Okanagan and Vancouver Island, where more than 85 per cent of historical wetland habitat has been drained, filled or otherwise damaged. And still these places are under increasing pressure from development, overuse and climate change.
This success goes to show that nature can be incredibly resilient when we choose to work with it, rather than against it.
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