The Canada-US border is the longest international land border in the world. A more holistic, transboundary approach to conservation across this national border offers a tremendous opportunity for increasing landscape and cultural connectivity, improving the efficacy of existing conservation efforts, and helping both Canada and the US reach ambitious national conservation targets.
Throughout 2021, we helped organize a series of four international dialogues around strengthening transboundary conservation in Canada and the U.S. These dialogues had hundreds of participants in attendance, including representatives from conservation organizations, Indigenous communities, government agencies, and civil society.
To better capture the learnings from the Dialogues, a small task force worked together to distill their common themes and key ideas into a summary report. The task force worked closely with Indigenous speakers and participants from the Dialogues to co-produce the report and ensure it appropriately and respectfully reflected the diverse views expressed in the Dialogues. The resulting report is a starting point for launching further conversation and stimulating concrete actions toward achieving durable conservation outcomes for the peoples and ecosystems that span this critical area.
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