Bold vision needed to save forests

Michael J Kellett

The Ecological Citizen Vol 7 No 2 2024: 143–50 [epub-109]

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Abstract

Intensifying climate and biodiversity crises and their impacts on human health and well-being represent an unprecedented global threat. Saving forests is crucial to addressing this emergency. Nations around the world have pledged to permanently protect at least 30 per cent of their lands, including vast forests, by 2030 (the '30 × 30' challenge). Yet we are falling short of this goal while forest degradation continues. As a major historic contributor to the current global crises, the United States has a responsibility to save forests by expanding protected areas, reducing logging and wood consumption, and helping other nations to do the same. Such a bold vision could help re-energize the faltering global 30 × 30 movement.

Keywords

Biodiversity, Climate change, Protected areas, Wildlands

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