Presented by Pascal Badiou - Email: p_badiou@ducks.ca
Ducks Unlimited Canada and other conservation agencies have long espoused the values of wetlands for the numerous ecosystem services they provide society. However, for the most part, these values were historically extracted from global analyses, covering numerous wetland types, spanning tropical to arctic regions. As such, these estimates had little ability to influence regionally specific wetland policies. Our presentation will outline how generating regionally specific information on the ecosystem services associated with prairie wetlands, and more specifically integrating the impact of wetland loss into larger regional environmental concerns, can help expand support for the conservation and restoration of key waterfowl habitats.D.2-2: Why losing waterfowl habitat is a concern for all
Pascal Badiou, Ducks Unlimited Canada, Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research