{"id":919,"date":"2021-04-22T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/?p=919"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:05:53","slug":"carleton-and-partners-developing-tools-to-protect-canadas-biodiversity-dr-joe-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/2021\/carleton-and-partners-developing-tools-to-protect-canadas-biodiversity-dr-joe-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton and Partners Developing Tools to Protect Canada\u2019s Biodiversity-Dr. Joe Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton and Partners Developing Tools to Protect Canada\u2019s Biodiversity-Dr. Joe Bennett\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Canada\u2019s landscapes, freshwater and wetlands are an important part of the world\u2019s biodiversity and migratory patterns. They are considered part of planet Earth\u2019s \u201cnatural heritage\u201d and are protected as such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, the country\u2019s globally important ecosystems are not immune to the realities of the Anthropocene. In Canada alone, there are over 700 species at risk of extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To help conserve ecosystems across the country, Biology Prof. Joseph Bennett and his team are leading the development of evidenced-based, decision-support tools that help partner organizations prioritize resources. The project will receive $966,000 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, plus $483,000 cash and $853,500 in-kind from the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/developing-tools-to-protect-canadas-biodiversity\/\">&#8230;continued&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s landscapes, freshwater and wetlands are an important part of the world\u2019s biodiversity and migratory patterns. They are considered part of planet Earth\u2019s \u201cnatural heritage\u201d and are protected as such. And yet, the country\u2019s globally important ecosystems are not immune to the realities of the Anthropocene. In Canada alone, there are over 700 species at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}