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We are now two years into the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which was launched in 2020 to urge the world to take action to slow, halt and even reverse nature loss. This UN call to action challenges the nearly 200 participating countries to embrace nature-based solutions for climate mitigation, reverse biodiversity declines and support human livelihoods, all to shape a more sustainable society.
The country has lost more than two-thirds of its grasslands — ecosystems that store carbon, filter water and feed communities. Similarly, southern Ontario’s wetlands have dwindled to under 30 per cent of their historic land cover, meaning numerous at-risk species have lost their habitats, and some of our communities’ greatest natural buffers against flooding and drought have vanished. These losses can be slowed, halted and even reversed, but we need broad-based action to achieve this.
That’s why the Nature Conservancy of Canada and the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Commission on Protected Areas recently assembled an interdisciplinary group of experts from government, conservation organizations, civil society and industry in Ottawa to develop an action plan that would see Canada re-establish our international leadership in ecosystem restoration.
The parties gathered with Wong and NCC agreed that a national secretariat on ecosystem restoration must be established to support and mobilize awareness and action under the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the Global Biodiversity Framework.
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