Task
- Option One: In a few sentences, recap the issue discussed in this story. What’s happening? Why does it matter? Who is involved? What concerns you the most? What do you already know about the issue? What do you need to find out more about? What do you hope will be covered in future chapters?
- Option Two: Find an issue in your community that's similar to the one being debated in this story. Create a set of questions that you would like to research in order to better understand the local implications of this debate. (Be sure to investigate all sides of the issue!)
What do you think?
- Do you think solutions to this issue are obvious or easy? Why or why not?
- Without doing any research, can you think of an ecoregion or ecosystem in Canada that is threatened? Do you know why the issue is unresolved?
- Do you think Nature Needs Half is a good solution, or a bad one?
- If you don't like the idea, what's a better path forward in your mind?
- As a young person, if you proposed a better solution to this issue, do you think anyone would listen to you? Why or why not?
Terms & Concepts
- Biodiversity
- Biodiversity Loss
- ‘Forest for the trees’
- Natural Selection
- Species
- Background Extinction Rate
- Vertebrate
- Habitat
- Habitat Loss
- Extinction
- Sixth Mass Extinction
- Ecosystem
- Invasive Species
- Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative
- Sloganeering
- Nature Needs Half
This story in the media
Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species, says study
Bias: none
Source: The Guardian
File Type: Study/Article
Overview: Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could...
Cities contain pockets of nature – our study shows which species are most tolerant of urbanization
Bias: Result bias
Source: The Conversation
File Type: Study/Essay
Overview: Cities contain pockets of nature –...
The tunnels, trails and bridges built especially for bears
Bias: none
Source: BBC
File Type: Article
Overview: The tunnels, trails and bridges built especially for...
Referenced Resources
- Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
- 6th mass extinction happening now? These scientists say yes
- Will Humans Survive the Sixth Great Extinction?
- Earth's sixth mass extinction event under way, scientists warn
- Researchers Say We're in a Sixth Mass Extinction. This Time, Humans Are the Culprit
- Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction?
- The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?
- Earth Is Not in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction
- Half the world must be set aside for nature, says Canadian conservationist
- Media Release: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
- The Secret Source of Putin's Evil
- War in Ukraine: Support for children and families
- Bolsonaro faces ‘crimes against humanity’ charge over COVID-19 mishandling: 5 essential reads
- Issues of Scale in Conservation Biology
- If We Want a Whole Earth, Nature Needs Half
- Reed Noss - Florida Institute for Conservation Science PhD, Wildlife Ecology, University of Florida
- More than 50 countries commit to protection of 30% of Earth's land and oceans
- Yellowstone to Yukon History
- Harvey Locke IUCN
- Fact check: U.N. Agenda 21/2030 'New World Order' is not a real document
- Agenda 21: a conspiracy theory puts sustainability in the crosshairs
- WHO and the Davos elite leave a lot to be desired
- The four spectacular elite failures shaping modern politics
- Most international treaties are ineffective, Canadian study finds
- Waste of Effort? International Environmental Agreements
- Brazil's new president has started taking steps towards damaging the 'lungs of the planet'