Achieving 30x30: Percentages Matter, We’re All in This Together, and What You Do to Help Counts Big-time
Achieving 30x30: Percentages Matter, We’re All in This Together, and What You Do to Help Counts Big-time
Green space in the Chicago region (credit: Chicago Wilderness Alliance ) Did you know that back in December, one of the most important planetary environmental agreements in history got approved in Montreal? This would be the “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF), approved by the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, which clearly states the goal of protecting, conserving, and restoring 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030. Not only was another opening created for the concept that non-human species have the right to exist and live their lives according to their kind in appropriate habitats, but indigenous peoples were included and given their due as primary keepers of land. If countries actually follow through on commitments (one of the biggest ifs) there might be a chance that biodiversity could start recovering, and we might have a chance of getting to half-earth by 2050. By providing enough habitat for 80% of species on eart...
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Thanks for asking. I am back to blogging regularly, though probably not on a regular schedule. I had a grant-funded job for awhile that kept me pretty busy, but now the grant is done, so it's back to part-time work; which means more time for gardening and blogging until something else comes along.
I knew exactly what room I was in when I saw that Rothko painting. I have a reproduction of a closely related Rothko in those same oranges and yellows hanging in my dining room. :-) -Jean
Thanks for stopping by.
In regards to birds, as a friend of mine said the other day, if you know bird songs, you can keep doing your garden work and still know who's around.
And Rothko: A happy coincidence--I started looking for an image of one of his red-based paintings, but the orange spoke to me this time. "Red," the play about him, is pretty good.