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We can’t live without nature’s help; and nature can’t live without our help. We must protect our planet’s biodiversity to safeguard the future of our ecosystems, our climate, our health — and our humanity – United Nations Foundation
— and we need to protect it.
Globally, we are losing biodiversity at an alarming rate. It is estimated that wildlife populations around the world have declined by 69 per cent since 1970, and up to one million species are threatened by extinction (WWF Living Planet Report 2022).
Scientists around the world are calling for immediate, transformative, and urgent actions to address the causes of biodiversity loss, climate change, and ecosystem degradation. It will require changes on many fronts including a more integrated response to achieve the multiple benefits we seek for biodiversity, climate and human well-being and prosperity. We need to break-down the silos of our conventional approaches.
In Ontario, we are losing biodiversity faster than we are conserving it (SOBR 2021). Some of our efforts to protect and restore biodiversity are having a positive impact, but more effort is needed to reverse this trend.
Biodiversity loss isn’t just an environmental issue. It impacts our families, our neighbourhoods, our economy, our workplaces, and our physical and mental health. It impacts food security, the climate, the air we breathe and the water we drink.
We know that most people in Ontario understand what biodiversity is, and recognize its importance to their lives. It’s now time to turn that awareness into urgent action, to protect what sustains us.
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