Some very good news: in April the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues held regional dialogues as part of its 22nd session and 80×25 was discussed…and included in their final report!
See the new Amazonia for Life: Protect 80×25 website!
Please see our new publication on encouraging cooperation between the climate and biodiversity conventions to solve both crises together.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management just posted this announcement of a proposed rulemaking, stating that the BLM is now “working on various aspects of ensuring that forests on Federal lands, including old and mature forests, are being managed as we feel they should be.
Please see Griffith University’s website for our research and policy partnership (and many publications) on primary forests with Griffith, Wild Europe, Australian Rainforest Conservation Society, Woodwell Climate Research Institute and many others!
The World Biodiversity Summit offers a platform to bridge the biodiversity and climate agendas, mobilise investments for nature, and build global public-private partnerships for nature to meet the goals outlined in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.
Please see our comments in response to the Request for Information from the US Government regarding EO 14072 on Mature and Old Growth Forests submitted by Chief Scientist Dr. Dominick DellaSala!
Nearly 100 scientists call on the BC Government to protect Primary Forests. This was covered by The Globe and Mail and Canada Press and NRDC.
If we look hard we can find a patch of forests that had been thinned and burned with prescribed fire, and then burned at less intensity in wildfire. Yet when we look across the vast landscapes that burned in the Bootleg and Almeda fires (Oregon), and Caldor and Dixie fires (California), we see homes burned to the ground, despite the extensive fire breaks and massive amounts of money spent on thinning and fire suppression.
More than 70 groups have launched the Climate Forests Campaign calling on the Biden administration to take executive action to protect mature trees and forests on federal lands to fight climate change and protect biodiversity. Last January President Biden signed Executive Order 10048, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad, pledging to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by 2050.
Read Chief Scientist Dominick DellaSala’s OpEd on U.S forests and climate change.
The USDA is developing a climate strategy in response to President Biden’s Executive Order and requested stakeholder input.