Innovative Approaches to Biodiversity Protection
The abundance of wild animals is in freefall across the globe, with earth’s wildlife populations plunging nearly 70 percent in the last 50 years. Protecting large intact ecosystems is a crucial long-term solution to the biodiversity crisis. If given space, nature can and will restore itself. In this context, the foundation’s biodiversity grant making aims to support large landscape conservation, connectivity, and indigenous-led conservation.
In the short term, one of humanity’s most sacred responsibilities is to prevent the extinction of other species. The foundation’s other focus is on reproductive biotechnology and cryobanking to protect species at risk. Cryobanking can help government meet their international responsibilities and should be expanded to complement the place-based species-at-risk work undertaken by provincial, territorial, and federal governments.