GMALL Presents – Hope is Wild: Land Trusts and the Path to Rewilding the Northeast

Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Jon Leibowitz, CEO of Northeast Wilderness, to talk about the essential work of land trusts, explaining how they function and why they are central to the future of conservation. This talk will also highlight a particularly powerful and hopeful strategy known as rewilding. The evidence tells us that the forever-wild approach can halve biodiversity loss on protected lands while increasing forest carbon storage. Land trusts are critical in helping Vermont achieve the objectives of Act 59, the Community Resilience and Biodiversity Protection Act, which establishes the ambitious goal to conserve 30% of Vermont’s lands and waters by 2030. For more information or to register, please call our office at 802-867-0111 or visit greenmtnacademy.org.