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
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.
