Canada's Amazing Natural Areas - the Science and Politics of Protecting Nature
With Ken Wu and Dr. Reed Noss
Theatre B (basement level), Brodie Science Building, Brandon University, Manitoba
By donation (suggested $5 to $10)
Join conservationist Ken Wu of the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance and world renowned conservation biologist Dr. Reed Noss for informative and inspiring presentations on the science, geography, and politics of protecting nature in Canada as we commence 2020, the year where an unprecedented focus on biodiversity conservation by the international community will take place, in part as "nature-based solutions" to the climate emergency.
Ken Wu will present: "Canada's amazing ecosystems - From temperate rainforests to grasslands", about the diversity of ecosystems across Canada, the Canadian and international context for expanding protected areas as we head towards the October 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference and the UN Climate Summit, COP 26. He will also elaborate on the campaign to build a movement that engages both conservationists and non-traditional allies among businesses, unions, faith groups, academics, and outdoor recreation groups.
Dr. Reed Noss will present: "Now is the time to protect ecosystems on a vast scale" about the importance of ecosystem conservation as a necessary complement to species conservation. By protecting representative ecosystems across all ecoregions of Earth, we protect the vast majority of species without having to worry about most of them individually. But we have to think big and protect an average of at least 50% of all ecoregions globally.
Ken Wu is the executive director of the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance, a new national conservation organization advocating the science-based protection of native ecosystems, working to engage non-traditional allies of the environmental movement, and working to support Indigenous Protected Areas. He was previously the co-founder and executive director of the Ancient Forest Alliance and the executive director of the Wilderness Committee's Victoria bureau. He graduated from UBC's ecological science program and has also worked as a biologist and tree-planter.
Reed Noss is a writer, photographer, lecturer, and consultant in natural history, ecology, and conservation. He was formerly Provost’s Distinguished Research Professor of Biology at the University of Central Florida. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Conservation Biology and President of the Society for Conservation Biology. He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has 340 publications, including eight books. He is currently working slowly on a book on the endangered ecosystems of North America.
Proceeds to the Endangered Ecosystems Alliance
With support by the Faculty of Science, University of Brandon
