Published on Monday, July 21, 2008 by the Times & Transcript (Canada)
Biodiversity Important for All of Us by David Suzuki with Dr. Faisal Moola
One of my proudest moments came in 1992 at the inaugural Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Along with UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol), a second key outcome of this international meeting was the signing of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a groundbreaking agreement founded on the principle that conserving biological diversity is “a common concern of all humankind”. Canada was the first of 189 countries to sign the agreement.B.C.’s Conservation Framework for protecting wildlife, released on July 9, made me realize, though, that all the agreements in the world won’t add up to much if they aren’t followed with action. For B.C., the stakes couldn’t be higher.