Mature / Old Growth Forests in the USA Webinar: On August 3rd at 11am PST, Dr. Dominick DellaSala, Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage, will discuss his groundbreaking research working with Griffith University and others to create the first Coast to Coast Mature/Old Growth Assessment for the USA.
Please see our new discussion paper about how the World Heritage Convention’s ‘List of World Heritage in Danger’ could be used more effectively to manage sites threatened by climate change or where climate change has already caused significant degradation.
Wild Heritage joins US ICOMOS and 16 other organizations in a call for the U.S. to rejoin UNESCO and pay its dues.
Wild Europe has long functioned as a key network working towards wilderness and primary forest protection in Europe and has been a close working partner of Wild Heritage on numerous initiatives.
Read about Wild Heritage Chief Scientist Dominick DellaSala’s work to protect the Tongass National Forest in Mongabay’s recent article!
Cyril Kormos started a new 4-yr term as IUCN WCPA Vice Chair for World Heritage. He will continue to sit on the IUCN WCPA Steering Committee and serve as a member of the IUCN World Heritage Panel. The new Steering Committee held its first meeting in May in spectacular Kota Kinabalu Park World Heritage Site in Sabah, Malaysia.
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.
January 2021 – December 2021 Speaking truth to power – https://kboo.fm/media/105223-speaking-truth-power Climate Summit misses the mark on US…
