One of the biggest challenges to protecting, restoring and managing significant urban natural areas and critical fish and wildlife habitat is the notion that cities are bereft of significant wildlife or the habitats that support them----that urban biodiversity is an oxymoron.
On this episode of Locus Focus we discuss local, national, and international efforts to reverse that premise, and what governments, NGOs and others are doing to promote ecosystem and human health, access to nature, and biodiversity in cities around the U. S. and internationally. We are joined by frequent Locus Focus guest Mike Houck, Director of the Urban Greenspaces Institute and board member of The Intertwine Alliance (www.theintertwine.org); David Maddox, founder and Director of The Nature of Cities program in New York City (www.thenatureofcities.com); and Chantal van Ham from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Brussels, Belgium (https://www.iucn.org/regions/europe/about/our-team-brussel).
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