Submitted by Carmyn de Jonge on Mon, 10/05/2021 - 12:07
The global conservation movement is divided but not diverse: reflections on 2020
By E.J. Milner-Gulland (May 2021)
"Twenty-twenty was a year like no other, for everyone, and has brought some of the core fissures within conservation into stark focus. It was supposed to be the biodiversity super-year in which the Global Biodiversity Framework would be ratified by the signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity, setting us on a course over the next several decades towards the restoration of nature. This did not happen. Instead, a global pandemic slammed into us, forcing societies around the world to re-evaluate their priorities. In addition, although so-called natural disasters in many countries have brought the dangers of climate change into sharp relief, some opportunistic administrations and resource-grabbers took the opportunity to step up the pillaging of nature and weaken or ignore environmental regulations..."
Read the full paper here.
