Protecting North America’s Greatest Wilderness with Dr. Aerin Jacob

Feb 22, 2022  14:00 - 14:45

(GMT -5:00) Eastern Time

Event URL:  https://www.exploringbytheseat.com/lesson/protecting-north-americas-greatest-wilderness-dr-aerin-jacob/
Hosted by: Exploring By The Seat of Your Pants

Dr. Aerin Jacob is an ecologist and conservation scientist at an environmental not-for-profit organization called “Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) Conservation Initiative”. Y2Y seeks to protect and connect landscapes across western North America, working from Yellowstone National Park in the United States all the way to the northern Yukon in Canada. This includes helping animals like grizzly bears, caribou, and wolverine that need a lot of space to feed, move, find mates, and raise their young. But sometimes the consequences of human activities like too much logging, building and driving on really busy roads, or recreation in the wrong places and times, and climate change can make life hard for animals – and for other people too. Aerin and Y2Y work with more than 450 groups across the Yellowstone to Yukon region to figure out solutions that help both people and nature to thrive in these amazing landscapes.