And what provides these services? The biodiversity – the myriad forms of life – within each ecosystem. When the richness of life inhabiting the world’s ecosystems is diminished, people’s well-being is diminished, too.
Yet from pole to pole, these ecosystems are at risk as the result of human development. The pressure is mounting like never before. Around the world, a species goes extinct every 20 minutes.
We must rise to this challenge.
Next month, world leaders will attend a meeting critical to the future of life on Earth. They’re gathering in Nagoya, Japan, for negotiations on the global Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The people attending this meeting have the power to take binding action to preserve life around the world.
Can you help us make sure that these world leaders do just that? Support Conservation International’s
goal: a global agreement to protect and effectively manage at least 25% of Earth’s land and inland waters and 15% of marine ecosystems by 2020:
We will collect your names and take them to Nagoya to demonstrate that people around the world—people like you—support the protection of ecosystems and, thereby, their biodiversity. We can send a message that protecting biodiversity is essential to the future of all life on Earth.
Ours is a meaningful goal that would have a real impact. Currently, only 13.9% of the world’s terrestrial areas are under formal protection. Less than 1% of the oceans are protected. And inland freshwater ecosystems have been almost entirely neglected by conservation efforts to date.
Help us increase those numbers—and join our movement to safeguard life around the world:
www.conservation.org/1525
