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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 397505" data-attributes="member: 605">I believe you became a moderator for nodakouthouse in 2003. I wish I had a nickel for every time you spewed your anti-landowner tripe.I can share what is happening:<a href="https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/30x30-wyss-foundation-interview/" target="_blank">https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/30x30-wyss-foundation-interview/</a><a href="https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/" target="_blank">MAGAZINE ARTICLES</a><h3>30x30: Protect 30% of the Planet's Land and Water by 2030</h3>A billion-dollar gift from the Wyss Foundation will help us achieve this ambitious environmental goal.By Julian Smith, Freelance Writer | February 29, 2020Spring 2020SHAREJulian SmithFreelance Writer<a href="https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/30x30-wyss-foundation-interview/#author-bottom" target="_blank">More</a>In 2019, The Nature Conservancy successfully closed on innovative new projects and deals that cumulatively protect nearly 6.6 million acres of land—an area larger than the states of Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut combined. Each of these successes relied on distinct strategies, partnerships or financing models to succeed, but they were all connected by one common thread: major support from the billion-dollar Wyss Campaign for Nature, which is helping to spearhead an ambitious drive to protect 30% of the Earth by 2030.Biden signed an executive order day one. He and his administration were told what to do and when to do it.For more than 20 years, Swiss philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss has been supporting conservation with hundreds of millions of dollars, but in 2018 he pledged an additional billion dollars over 10 years to help reach that 30% goal. The Wyss Campaign is supporting new types of projects that leverage innovative financial tools or partner with Indigenous communities to create even bigger gains for people and nature.Example, the Eskimos like oil and mineral extraction because they like jobs. These philanthropists' lawyer up a few indigenous subsistence people to fight against extraction. And TNC announced the launch of its Blue Bonds for Conservation program, which aims to help small coastal and island countries protect 30% of their national waters. A pilot of this TNC project with the Seychelles government has already protected more than 86 million acres of waters in the western Indian Ocean, an area almost as large as Germany.All three of these projects demonstrate how conservation can—and must—scale up in the future. The threats to biodiversity grow more dire every year. A 2019 report from the United Nations estimates that about a million species are now at risk of extinction, and that biodiversity is declining hundreds of times faster than the normal rate—a pace never before seen in human history.But the report also stated that it’s not too late to turn things around, even though it will require a massive effort to protect habitat. “For starters, we have to protect 30% of the planet by 2030, and we need to mobilize the financial resources to sustainably manage lands and waters over the long term,” says Wyss, an industrialist who has quietly funded conservation work across five continents. His public commitment to give $1 billion to help reach the 30x30 goal is enabling numerous conservation groups to scale up their work.He gives lots of money to conservation and pretend sportsmen's orgs. <a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/backcountry-hunters-and-anglers/" target="_blank">https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/backcountry-hunters-and-anglers/</a>Scientists, governments and nongovernmental organizations around the world are calling for the next meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity—to be held this year in China—to set the target of conserving 30% of nature by 2030. The idea is that through protecting habitat, they can help the world’s species be more resilient to climate change and other human disturbances, such as pollution or agriculture.In China? That need for large-scale conservation projects fits TNC’s purview perfectly, says Lynn Scarlett, TNC’s chief external affairs officer. “As the human footprint grows, its effects on biodiversity grow, too, and the scale at which you need to operate also grows,” she says. The Conservancy has a global reach and offers the skills of hundreds of scientists, as well as those of the leading experts in innovative financing for conservation.Innovative financing for conservation? Like as in Natural Asset Companies trading air and water on the New York Stock Exchange.Q&A<h4>Philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss fell in love with nature in the American West. Now he wants to see it protected around the world.</h4><a href="https://nodakangler.com/forums/javascript%3Avoid(0)" target="_blank"><img src="https://natureconservancy-h.assetsadobe.com/is/image/content/dam/tnc/nature/en/photos/f/other/F_WYSS_5.jpg?wid=640" alt="Hansjorg Wyss portrait" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>DONOR Hansjörg Wyss pledged $1 billion over 10 years to protect nature. © Jason Seiler<h4>Do you see protecting the natural world as an obligation for everyone? Is there a role for both large-scale philanthropists and people with more modest incomes?</h4>Wyss: I am proud of the work [the Wyss Campaign for Nature has] done over the last few decades, but I also know that we all need to be doing more—far more—to conserve and protect the planet’s remaining wild places. One of the best ways to safeguard wildlife and wild areas is to increase the pace and scale at which we’re protecting the planet. I announced my $1 billion gift and launched the Wyss Campaign for Nature in the hope that it would be a signal for others, including philanthropists and governments, to commit more money to protect nature.We need everyone helping to slow the loss of nature and conserve the planet’s wild places. Philanthropy at all scales is important—large contributions, modest contributions and everything in between. But it is even more important that people raise their voices, that they vote for candidates with a plan to protect nature, and that they get actively involved in conservation at the local, national or international level.<h4>Of the many environmental threats the world faces, which one causes you the most concern?</h4>Wyss: The climate emergency and the crisis facing nature and wildlife are two sides of the same coin. We cannot stabilize the climate without increasing protections for nature around the world. In fact, the most cost-effective way to mitigate climate change is to protect more of the Earth’s lands and waters, especially carbon-rich ecosystems like forests, peatlands and mangroves. And like climate change, the continued destruction of natural areas presents an existential threat to communities and economies around the world. Without intact natural systems, billions of people will suffer.How do people fit into your vision for conservation?Wyss: Every conservation project that the Wyss Foundation supports is driven by local communities and by local people who have identified a landscape or seascape under threat and in need of protection. In Montana, we have supported the Blackfeet Nation in their decades-long effort to protect the Badger-Two Medicine—a place of deep cultural and spiritual significance—from oil drilling. In Argentina, we have helped rural communities diversify their economies by establishing new national parks. And the list goes on.What kind of world do you hope we can leave for future generations? Wyss: I am optimistic by nature. I feel confident we will, collectively, rise to the occasion and protect far more of the planet. I think my grandchildren and their grandchildren will live in a world where half the planet is conserved for nature. We have a lot of work to do, and we don’t have a great deal of time. We must act quickly to protect what’s left. Still, I’m very confident that, working together as part of a global effort, we can get there.He didn't say 30%. He said half. PrairieGhost, this article is from the Nature Conservancy. If you ask they will let you hunt. For now. </blockquote>

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