What is Collaborating with Wildlife?
Collaborating with Wildlife in Park Gateways
Collaborating with Wildlife means we…
1. Identify and prioritize:
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The meeting of wildlife needs for food and water, cover, and space arranged to enable wildlife to carry out innate behaviors that assure survival—without conflict with human communities.
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Retaining and restoring the ecological functions and structures provided by nature for animal health, security and reproduction.
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Opportunities for wildlife to achieve and recover genetic diversity and wild traits established and disturbed by human endeavor.by nature
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2. Change the paradigm from accepting the origin of mass wildlife loss in North America—and put wildlife recovery on par with human sustainability concerns in every sector.
3. Integrate wildlife collaboration into the organizational strategy, operation, outputs and culture
of humans—with a long-term commitment to investing in adaptive solutions.
The CW Summit will propose that four pillars of Collaborating with Wildlife describe human actions as Supporting, Adapting, Provisioning, and Valuing as means of meeting the needs of native wildlife.
The four pillars of Collaborating with Wildlife composed of the human actions described as Supporting, Provisioning, Adapting and Valuing to meet wildlife needs.
