Protecting Nature in Light of Climate Change
‘SuperNatural BC’ is known as an attractive place to live offering a high quality of life. Our communities, livelihoods and wildlife depend on a wide range of services provided by diverse land and water ecosystems, such as freshwater, fish and wildlife habitat, forest products and flood protection. But a significantly changing climate, which wasn’t considered during BC’s recently-completed land use planning processes, is putting our nature at risk. Environmentalists, government, and other sectors must work together to build on the last 20 years of land use planning with a science-based approach to develop policy tools, land management systems and networked land conservation that together can provide more investment certainty, while ensuring BC’s precious land, water and communities remain resilient and productive.
