When there's coverage on nature conservation, the news is seldom good. We hear a lot about forests turning into ashes, continents of plastic on the oceans, and so many species lost—and very little about conservation success. In this talk, Dr. Jon Paul Rodríguez of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will update the narrative by sharing several conservation success stories, and will introduce Reverse the Red, a new global movement to ignite strategic cooperation and action to ensure the survival of wild species and ecosystems.
This talk is part of the Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability's (IBSS) "Explore, Explain, and Sustain" seminar series.
Dr. Jon Paul Rodríguez is Chair of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Dr. Rodríguez has actively contributed to the Red List of Threatened Species and the Red List of Ecosystems, comprehensive inventories of the world's biodiversity, and fundamental tools to guide the conservation of threatened species and ecosystems.
The mission of the Academy's Institute for Biodiversity Science and Sustainability (IBSS) is to gather new knowledge about life's diversity and the process of evolution—and to rapidly apply that understanding to our efforts to regenerate life on Earth.