Biodiversity for Life and Climate

Image: Butterfly Photo:  Atanu Bose Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

THIS EVENT IS HAS ALREADY OCCURRED.

Our meeting topic was “Biodiversity for Life and Climate” and included a recap of COP15, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity held in Montreal in December. Our guest speakers were Dr. Justina Ray (President and Senior Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society Canada) and Mitchell Beer (publisher and managing editor of The Energy Mix / Climate News Network).

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Dear Karen,

Last Wednesday, at our CALL monthly learning meeting titled, Biodiversity for Life and Climate, we learned that Biodiversity encompasses the variety of living species on Earth, including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi. While Earth’s biodiversity is so rich that many species have yet to be discovered, many species are being threatened with extinction due to human activities, putting the Earth’s magnificent biodiversity at risk and therefore human life as well.

We were pleased to introduce Dr. Justina Ray, President and Senior Scientist of Wildlife Conservation Society Canada; and Mitchell Beer, the founding publisher of Energy Mix, an e-digest on climate news.

Our speakers provided an overview of biodiversity in Canada, some understanding of biodiversity and climate change, the twin crises that humanity is facing as well as a brief summary of the climate conference COP 27 and the Nature COP 15 held in Dec in Montreal.

For those who attended we hope you enjoyed the presentation. For those who were not able to attend the presentation, here is a link to a video recording of the event:

And here is a link to a folder with copies of the speakers’ slides and a document with follow-up resources including answers to questions that we did not have time to get answered during the session which our speakers kindly answered afterwards.

Our Action of the Day, was about the momentum growing to protect the Greenbelt from irreversible harm to wildlife, ecological systems and prime agricultural areas from the Ford government’s decision to open up areas for development. To learn more and to take action, visit the Greenbelt Promise website.

Please join us next month (it’s SOON – Wednesday, February 1st at 10:00 a.m.) for our Annual CALL Townhall Meeting. It’s a chance to review the past year and look forward with upcoming plans. Plus a great opportunity for you to hear about some interesting volunteer opportunities with CALL. Register by clicking here:

You can also encourage your friends and family members to join CALL as a “Supporter” and attend any of our monthly learning meetings or interest groups. All our activities are no charge. You can pass along this sign-up link here.

Hope you’ll join us again,

JoAnne Hunter On behalf of the CALL Leadership team

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