Endangered Ecosystems Alliance (EEA) info night and fundraiser
Drinks!
Presentations!
Socializing and snacks!
Right now is the greatest opportunity in history to expand our parks and protected areas system across Canada and the world, including establishing Indigenous Protected Areas. This also includes protecting BC’s old-growth forests and ensuring a sustainable, value-added, second-growth forest industry.
Presentations by:
Ken Wu, Executive Director, Endangered Ecosystems Alliance:
“Protecting Canada’s diverse, endangered ecosystems - the current historic opportunity to expand protected areas and building a broader environmental movement that engages the needs of most people here and now”
Dan Hager, President, Port Renfrew Chamber of Commerce
“Tall Tree Tourism’s effect on the Regional Economy of Port Renfrew”
Arnie Bercov, BC Forestry Consultant and former president of the Public and Private Workers of Canada (PPWC)
“How working with environmentalists can support jobs and rural employment.”
Karl Ablack, Vice-President, Port Renfrew Chamber of Commerce
“Avatar Grove and the benefit of Tall Trees on real estate values in Port Renfrew”
Jon Cash, former president of the Port Renfrew Chamber of Commerce and Soule Creek Lodge owner:
“Engaging businesses to protect old-growth forests”
Vicky Husband, Orders of Canada and BC recipient, BC conservationist:
“Why we need to support a both private and public lands conservation funds.”
[Note: Gisele Martin is unable to make this event but will speak at a special fall dinner/ 2 yr anniversary special event for the EEA in Victoria…watch for details]
Currently the world is experiencing the greatest expansion of environmental awareness in history - concern over climate change and the environment now ranks as the top or near top concern in almost all western jurisdictions on Earth.
The global focus on the environment will come to the forefront this year as we head towards the November, 2020 UN Climate Summit where a focus on “Nature-Based Solutions” to climate solutions and the global extinction crisis will move to the forefront, and the October, 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference where new global protected areas targets will be negotiated.
Protecting native ecosystems benefits humanity by supporting businesses and jobs in tourism, recreation, fishing (providing clean water and habitat), real estate (increasing property values in nearby communities) and high tech (attracting skilled workers who locate to areas with a higher environmental quality of life); by enhancing our mental and physical health; supporting First Nations cultures which evolved in native ecosystems over millenia; and providing ecosystem services like clean water, regional and global climate regulation, food, and medicines. Protecting nature has been called the “best insurance policy for humanity”.
Indeed, native ecosystems are the foundation of life on Earth.
Canada has a long way to go to meet our international commitment to protect 17% of our land base by the end of 2020 (currently we are at about 12%) and to meet a much higher international target to be set for 2030 at the UN Biodiversity Conference in October of 2020.
The UN Biodiversity Conference is the central opportunity for Canada to push for an international commitment for far more ambitious, ecosystems-based protection targets - here and around the world.
Hear compelling presentations on how scaling-up the protection of ecosystems across Canada, from BC's old-growth forests to grasslands, from southern deciduous forests to boreal forests, would be a game-changer to help avert both the climate and extinction crises - and also would hugely bolster local businesses, jobs, and the mental and physical well-being of people.
The Endangered Ecosystems Alliance, a new national organization established by long-time conservationists Ken Wu, is working for the science-based protection of nature.
The revolution in the environmental movement will be when it makes it clear that its agenda supports the proximate needs of most people right here and now; engages and mobilizes a diversity of sectors including businesses, unions, faith groups, recreation groups, and multi-cultural outreach; and supports Indigenous Protected Areas and associated conservation financing, as the central features in their strategies for change.
This event is both an awareness night and fundraiser for the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance. Please support us as generously as you can as we work to scale up our campaigns as we head into this pivotal upcoming year!
Cost:
$30 Regular
$20 Student
For more info email info@EndangeredEcosystemsAlliance.org