Usually in our work to guard and preserve nature, we have now to measure progress in small, incremental steps. Solely very often can we expertise an amazing leap ahead. Canada’s determination to signal the UN Excessive Seas Treaty is a type of leaps. And our voices for nature helped make it doable!
This treaty, the UN Biodiversity of Areas Past Nationwide Jurisdiction Treaty, is likely one of the most consequential conservation devices of all time.
Oceans cowl seventy % of the planet’s floor, and the overwhelming majority are worldwide waters. Too many states have handled the oceans like zones open for lawless exploitation, decreasing a lot of it to watery deserts. The treaty guarantees to halt that collapse, by defending biodiversity throughout almost one-third of worldwide waters.
When the treaty was finalized within the spring of final 12 months, the federal government of Canada publicly applauded it. But, when it was introduced on the UN Common Meeting, our authorities was not amongst the eighty-three that stepped ahead to signal. Nature Canada appealed to our nation’s nature neighborhood, and thirty-three main conservation establishments signed a joint letter with us, urging the federal government to behave. Our letter was amplified by you — our members and native nature teams.
Collectively, we pushed for vital change and bought it. Thanks for elevating your voice for nature and making this victory doable!
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