Salazar Center announces Thriving Cities Challenge finalists, expanded funding support 09 Jun, 2021
The Thriving Cities Challenge was created to fund innovative nature-based solutions that improve the equity, health and resilience of urban communities in North America.
Fifteen teams from across North America have been selected as finalists for the Thriving Cities Challenge, an incentive prize launched by Colorado State University’s Salazar Center for North American Conservation in Fall 2020. Up to five teams will be chosen as winners following a virtual pitch event in September 2021 as part of the Center’s third annual symposium.
“We’re excited to have such a strong group of finalists focused on innovative work in cities all over North America,” said Salazar Center Director Beth Conover. “We look forward to building a community of interest focused on urban climate resilience, green space and racial equity.”
Salazar Center seeks proposals to advance climate resilience, racial equity 18 Feb, 2021
Colorado State University’s Salazar Center for North American Conservation is currently accepting applications for its second-annual incentive prize competition: the Thriving Cities Challenge, the first of its kind to be offered by the center.
“Our cities are facing the effects of climate change and confronting policies that often leave communities of color more vulnerable to the heat, rising seas and extreme weather climate change brings,” said Salazar Center Director Beth Conover. “But there is hope. Nature-based solutions can not only make communities more resilient to these changes, they can offer myriad additional benefits and improve the collective health of our cities and their residents.”
My Turn: ‘Wrong for people, wrong for animals, wrong for science’
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Published: 2/16/2021 7:11:12 AM
I am writing to voice strong opposition to the proposed legislation in bills HD 1592 /SD 1029. I am a hobby fur trapper as well as a professional animal damage control trapper. The proposed bills will do nothing to help wildlife, will facilitate wanton waste and go against the North American conservation model. Also synthetic faux fur, along with being an inferior textile, clogs landfills and breaks down to microplastics whereas real fur can be composted, upcycled etc.
Wildlife under the North American conservation model is a public trust. This means that wildlife is as much yours as it is mine until it is harvested and becomes someone’s possession. The strict seasons and bag limits set by biologists determine what amount of harvest is permitted to maintain healthy ecological and social carrying capacities.
Salazar Center report champions inclusive and equitable landscape conservation, provides lessons learned for practitioners 28 Jan, 2021
Water trickles over a dam on the Klamath River outside Hornbrook, California. Photo: Jeff Barnard / Associated Press, courtesy of Los Angeles Times.
The Salazar Center for North American Conservation at Colorado State University and the Network for Landscape Conservation have released a new report exploring how values of diversity, equity and inclusion have strengthened landscape conservation projects across the United States.
The report, funded by the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, features unique case studies from across the country and offers critical lessons and actionable resources for conservation practitioners in North America.