American Bird Conservancy: We're at COP15 with partners to advocate for birds and nature.

American Bird Conservancy
@ABCbirds

We're at COP15 with partners including @BirdLife_News and @BirdsCanada among others to advocate for birds and nature. We're hopeful final negotiations will uphold biodiversity values because the world needs birds (and all wildlife) and we need birds.

https://www.birdlife.org/news/2022/12/12/the-final-week-for-nature-unfolds-in-montreal/

Excerpt:

BirdLife’s Chief Scientist Dr Stuart Butchart warns, “Reversing biodiversity loss is achievable by 2030 with transformative change. That’s why I’ve signed up to a statement urging governments to adopt ambitious targets for 2030 in the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework.”

The statement makes the following points. COP15 negotiations must include time-bound targets for key drivers of biodiversity loss to be addressed. Time-bound means that progress or the lack thereof can be determined in real-time. Achieving success will require wealthy countries to rapidly reduce the impact of their consumption. Researchers, conservationists, and the public across the world are also urging leaders for this agreement to include ambitious goals to ‘Halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity and put nature on a path to recovery by 2030.’ In other words, rather than simply stopping the further decline in species and habitats, we need to achieve a state where the amount of biodiversity worldwide is actually increasing.

We insist that nature be at the heart of the solutions and action adopted. But conservation will not be enough. We must also radically change our consumption and the drivers that have created the nature crisis. Whether toxic agricultural subsidies, unsustainable fisheries or deforestation, our practices must be stopped and reversed. Governments must rise to the urgent challenge now if we and our planet are to have a chance of survival.” - Patricia Zurita, BirdLife CEO