“That which has been destroyed in centuries, we must act to restore in the next decade in order to avert even greater natural, climate and human catastrophes,” writes Hailemariam Desalegn.
are threatened with extinction. We are felling rainforests at a rate of four football fields a minute.
The campaign calls on world leaders to help mobilise financial resources to properly manage protected areas, and to fully integrate and respect indigenous leadership and rights in the work of conservation. We know from experience that local people have to own the protected areas as their own and benefit from their protection. Only in this way will conservation succeed and promote inclusive economic and social development.
Africa can and should take the lead in driving action toward 30×30. A crucial opportunity to do so will be at the meeting of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Kunming, China, later this year. There, targets will be updated to reflect the full extent of our planetary crisis.
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