Excited and hopeful - is how Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources (P.O.W.E.R.) feels about our Mainstreaming BioDiversity work and this unique newsletter. The goal ofMainstream BioDiversity is to help the purpose of this newsletter is to communicate, educate, raise public awareness and inspire action for biodiversity and the convention on biological diversity Volume 1, Issue 1 | December 2010 Biodiversit y is l ife Biodiversit y is Our life Action Now for Life on Earth From the desk of P.O.W.E.R. NSIDE THIS ISSUE: Action Now For Life on Earth 1 Why BioDiversity Matters 1 Nagoya Biodiversity Summit 2 Oh Canada 3 Ontario– Yours to Discover 4 Watershed Moments 5 Ecosystem Services 6 Act Local-Contribute Global 7 P.O.W.E.R. With A Purpose 8 www.powerhalton.ca understand, engage and take action for BioDiversity– from globally to locally. To P.O.W.E.R. this means not only exploring BioDive rsity, but also the Convention on Bi ological Diversity. Each issue of Mainstream BioDiversity will have a focal area or theme that will be explored and considered from the international to the local and individual level. Using this nested approach, our goal is to consider how each level is relevant and necessary to sustain BioDiversity. Mainstream BioDiversity will strive to present an integrated view that supports communication, education and public awareness to foster Action Now for Life on Earth. We believe that the power IS in our hands. In this first issue, we will explore how all levels are relevant and interact to influence and impact our BioDiversity. You will also find a contribution from Youth and the Executive Secretary for the Convention on Biological Div ersity. Both will be regular features i n Mainstream BioDiversit ! It’s All About Action Thanks to Environment Canada EcoAction Community Funding Program for their action to support ofthis newsletter. Why BioDiversity Matters Voices for the Future | Jesse Paragamian (P.O.W.E.R. Youth Caucus) Many may think that youth don’t care about BioDiversity or the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), nor does either have anything to do with youth as it does not really have any impact on them. I believe that this statement could not be farther from the truth. What many youth, in fact many people, need to remember is that our entire lives and our future is tied to BioDiversity. Everything we have depends on BioDiversity, and our actions are ca using a shift that is leaving an unsecure future for generations that will call our planet home. Youth, in fact all of us, ultimately have a role and responsibility to stop the loss ofgenetics, species and ecosystems and their functions. The youth I know and work with are taking this to heart and are working to make a difference for BioDiversity. We can do this and I believe that the CBD, if given more recognition, can act as a global vehicle to help youth, and all of us, stop BioDiversity loss – that is why mainstreaming BioDiversity, and learning more about the CBD, is so important. The CBD can be a means to network youth around the globe. I had the fortune to participate in the Conference of the Parties to the CBD in Japan in October, 2010. I witnessed, first hand, how an organized, respectful and committed youth voice can help move our global BioDiversity away from the slope ofcontinued degradatio n. (More on page 2).
![January Newletter[1]](https://img.dokumen.tips/doc/110x75/552086044a79595e718b47e1/january-newletter1.jpg)
