Forever Wild: Western Deserts
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Less than 22% of the planet’s wilderness remains. Yet these landscapes are crucial for our climate and hold some of the world’s most incredible biological diversity and Indigenous cultures.
By working with communities, Forever Wild is designing and implementing landscape management systems to sustainably integrate nature, society, and economies - places we call Shared Earth Landscapes. We are creating equity for nature and local people in decision-making, and Shared Earth Landscapes offer a blueprint for a new relationship between contemporary society and the last wild places on our planet.
Project ID: FWWD
Overview
This project, in the vast, remote Outback of Western Australia, lies within a Global Biodiversity Hotspot. It is also home to ancient rock art sites, and isolated communities working to grow food in a truly sustainable manner. Vast woodlands of mulga, a beautiful desert-adapted tree with silver leaves, store millions of tonnes of carbon. Spinifex grasses, growing on red sand dunes, provide shelter to innumerable small animals, and enormous ephemeral lake systems fill once every 10 years and attract tens of thousands of water birds.
Shared Earth Landscapes
Aboriginal storylines are woven through the landscape, and deep, spiritual connections still exist for many of the Indigenous people. Alongside that, early settler history is rich and fascinating. Together, they form the shared human history of the landscape.
Forever Wild now manages an area of over 2,250 square kilometres and is co-designing a much larger area with the local community. Across this landscape, the remarkable habitats, carbon stores, and cultural heritage will be forever protected.
Forever Wild now manages an area of over 2,250 square kilometres and is co-designing a much larger area with the local community. Across this landscape, the remarkable habitats, carbon stores, and cultural heritage will be forever protected.
United Nations: Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 interconnected goals established by the United Nations in 2015. The SDGs provide a comprehensive framework for addressing the world's most pressing economic, social, and environmental challenges.
Global impact groups play a crucial role in supporting the SDGs by creating mechanisms to mobilise resources, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive collective action toward achieving the goals. These groups have the capacity to leverage their expertise and resources to make a significant positive impact.
Global impact groups play a crucial role in supporting the SDGs by creating mechanisms to mobilise resources, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive collective action toward achieving the goals. These groups have the capacity to leverage their expertise and resources to make a significant positive impact.
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