Scaling Up: Conservation in a Connected World

Our planet is facing an unprecedented and accelerating biodiversity crisis, driven by human activity and compounded by climate change, which is bringing ever more severe weather to a world already strained by poverty and inequality. Species are disappearing at accelerating rates, entire ecosystems are collapsing at alarming speeds, and millions of people struggle to secure the most basic needs of water, food, energy, and safety. At the same time, unsustainable and unequal patterns of resource extraction, land use, and development are eroding nature’s life support systems and deepening inequality, thereby placing the world’s most fragile ecosystems and poorest populations at far greater risk.