11/10/2025
16:00 - 17:30
CR A-A: Forum - Session Room 7
, Hybrid (onsite with livestreaming)
Session with interpretation
Why attend
Advancing strategies for species recovery: Launching the IUCN Extinct in the Wild Action Partnership’s approach for species lost from nature – species that could return to the wild and restore ecosystem health. Attendees will engage in critical conversations surrounding disruptive innovation and when to embrace progressive change.
Session Description
The IUCN SSC Extinct in the Wild Action Partnership is a global initiative making a significant contribution toward rescuing species on the brink of extinction, revitalizing ex situ populations of EW species, recovering wild populations via first release, and promoting subsequent reinforcement for establishing wild populations (the 4Rs). Toward these four goals, this session will promote strategic thinking and connection to help develop these concepts and shape good practice to deliver on this ambition. Critical conversations surrounding disruptive conservation efforts and opportunities for scaling impact for long-term implementation efforts will be analysed.To encourage inspiring discussion, session leaders will send advance invitations to individuals and organizations bringing in diverse partners including from the global south, enabling deep discussion into new pathways for recovering Extinct in the Wild species and, in doing so, reverse biodiversity declines and restore ecosystem health.
Session agenda
Speaker
Axel MOEHRENSCHLAGER
Lost from Nature, Saving Extinct in the Wild Species
Barney LONG
Lost from Nature, Saving Extinct in the Wild Species
Paul SMITH
Lost from Nature, Saving Extinct in the Wild Species
Cara MARTEL
Lost from Nature, Saving Extinct in the Wild Species