By Geraldine Kenny
“Hope is hard to come by these days”, admits Jane Goodall. She is well aware why people are feeling a sense of despair. But she has a remedy for that. “Stop looking all around the world, just think about where you are, or some project that you really care about, and roll up your sleeves and do something about that.”
At this very moment the world is watching the Conference on Bio-diversity in Montreal because it is here that science will lay at the feet of governments the absolute necessity to make binding laws to protect bio-diversity.
Protecting and recovering species at risk and their habitat is the key to conserving BC’s threatened eco-systems, and old growth forest conservation is a step in the right direction. Forestry policy in BC is so flawed that it significantly contributes to species decline, in particular by destroying the very habitat that nurtures bio-diversity. Eliminating these life – giving old forests is truly a crime against nature.
‘It will take a wise and audacious government to stand up to industry and act now on the commitment to protect 20% of our lands and waters. More talk and log will not halt the collapse of biodiversity. The ball is now in your court Premier. Houston.’
Top image credit: Green moss on brown tree trunks – Photo by Ron Otsu on Unsplash
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