Biodiversity and conservation:
Towards 30% of protected land and marine areas?

According to the latest report of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction due to human activities, with disastrous consequences for the ecosystems on which people depend for their livelihoods.

Promoted by the scientific community, the creation and management of protected areas (national parks, nature reserves, regional nature parks, etc.) contribute to the fight against the collapse of biodiversity. France and the United States have committed to protecting 30% of their land and water areas by 2030. Canada is also mobilized to protect its natural areas with an intermediate objective of 25% by 2025.

Following the success of the French Ameri-Can Climate on Biodiversity (FACT-B) launched in 2019, the Embassies of France in the U.S. and Canada are pleased to restart a FACT-B in 2022 regarding this issue of protected land and marine areas. 

This FACT-B consists in a series of three high-level conversations as cross-section of conservation and protection policies for natural areas in the United States, Canada and France from academia, government agencies, NGOs, and think tanks. 

The goal of FACT-B is twofold: to raise public and decision makers’ awareness about biodiversity issues and policies in France, the U.S., and Canada, as well as to reinforce exchanges between scientists and policy experts on biodiversity and conservation issues and provide a public forum for discussion. FACT-B is part of France’s broader efforts to make biodiversity conservation a priority at the international level, in the same way as the fight against climate change.

Vancouver

Fostering the coexistence of multiple uses in protected areas
Vancouver – Wosk Centre for dialogue
March 17th, 2022

Program

5:15pm: Doors open

6:00pm: Introduction by Shauna Sylvester, Executive Director of SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue & M. Guillaume Roy, Deputy Consul General in Vancouver

6:15pm: Conversation

7:30pm: Cocktail

8:30pm: Event ends

Speakers

Cyrille Barnerias, Head of European and International Affairs, French Biodiversity Agency

Hélène Soubelet, Director of the French Foundation for Biodiversity Research

Cole Burton, Professor, UBC Forestry Department

Kevin Barlow, Executive director of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – BC Chapter

Tim Burkhart, BC manager, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

Alexandra Barron, National director, Ocean program, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Moderator

Élodie Jacquet, Knowledge and Practice Manager, SFU Wosk Centre for dialogue

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