In the effort to reach the 30×30 goals for biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation called for under the Biden administration’s January executive order on tackling the climate crisis at home and abroad, the American Farmland Trust called for policies of voluntary, incentive-based and locally-led conservation.
Roughly 60% of the land in the United States is privately owned and many, if not most, wildlife species rely on these lands for habitat and foraging. Although the areas of greatest biodiversity and carbon sequestration are mostly composed of private lands – such as rangelands, grasslands, and private forests – only a fraction of privately held land is protected. About seven million acres, or less than 1% of our agricultural land, is permanently protected.
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WASHINGTON Today, April 6, American Farmland Trust released “Agriculture’s Role in 30×30: Partnering with Farmers and Ranchers to Protect Land, Biodiversity, and the Climate” outlining agriculture’s critical role in the effort to “conserve at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030” as put forth in the Biden administration’s Jan. 27, 2021, Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. AFT’s recommendations make it clear that we urgently need to both permanently protect 5 percent of vulnerable working lands from being converted to development and support landowners’ voluntary efforts to implement conservation practices on an additional 25 percent of working lands, particularly in biodiversity hotspots, key connectivity corridors and areas with high carbon sequestration potential.
-AFT, NACD, NSAC and NWF
WASHINGTON – Today, April 8, 70 leading agriculture, conservation and wildlife groups delivered a letter to Congress requesting robust funding for conservation programs and technical assistance in fiscal year (FY) 2022 appropriations.
In the letter, American Farmland Trust, the National Association of Conservation Districts, the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, the National Wildlife Federation and other signatories called upon House and Senate appropriators to provide needed robust increases to discretionary United States Department of Agriculture conservation funding and reject any cuts to farm bill conservation programs through the FY22 appropriations process.
“As Congress and USDA continue to increase focus on climate change and the opportunities that agriculture and forestry can provide to sequester carbon, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and build resilience, funding for conservation support is more important now than ever,” the coal
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