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Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala is Chief Scientist at Wild Heritage<\/a>, and former President of the Society for Conservation Biology, North America Section<\/a>. He is an internationally renowned author of over 200 science papers on forest and fire ecology, conservation biology, endangered species management, and landscape ecology. Dominick has given plenary and keynote talks ranging from academic conferences to the United Nations Earth Summit.<\/p>\n

Dominick has appeared in National Geographic, Science Digest, Science Magazine, Scientific American, Time Magazine, Audubon Magazine, National Wildlife Magazine, High Country News, Terrain Magazine, NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Jim Lehrer News Hour, CNN, MSNBC, \u201cLiving on Earth (NPR),\u201d several PBS documentaries and even Fox News!<\/p>\n

Dominick has served on numerous committees, including White House Council task forces on forests and the Oregon\u2019s Global Warming Commission carbon task force reporting to the governor. He is editor of scientific journals and publications. His book \u201cTemperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation<\/span>\u201d received an academic excellence award from Choice <\/i>magazine, one of the nation\u2019s top book review journals. His recent co-authored book\u2013 <\/span>The Ecological Importance of Mixed-Severity Fires: Nature\u2019s Phoenix <\/span>\u2013 presents groundbreaking science on the ecological importance of wildfires. <\/span>Dominick is motivated by his work to leave a living planet for his daughters, grandkids and all those that follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Wild Heritage's mission is to protect and restore ecosystem integrity and safeguard biocultural diversity around the world and its focus in on primary forest protection, protected areas and ecological restoration. More about Wild Heritage<\/a>.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Dominick's project publications<\/h2>
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Policy brief: Ecosystem integrity maximises climate mitigation and minimises risk in international forest policy<\/a><\/h3>
16\/11\/2022<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
The ecological, social and economic values of forests are widely known and avoiding their loss and degradation has been recognized in national and international policy as critical for helping address the many global problems we face. <\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Using ecosystem integrity to maximise climate mitigation and minimise risk in international forest policy<\/a><\/h3>
16\/09\/2022<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
Rules and guidelines that treat forests equally in key international policy frameworks regardless of their risk profiles limit their effectiveness and can facilitate forest degradation. Here we assess the potential for using a framework of ecosystem integrity to guide policy goals.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Mature and old-growth forests contribute to large-scale conservation targets in the United States<\/a><\/h3>
29\/07\/2022<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
Mature and old-growth forests of the United States collectively support exceptional levels of biodiversity but have declined substantially from logging and development.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Estimating carbon stocks and changes in British Columbia’s forests<\/a><\/h3>
05\/05\/2022<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
British Columbia contains under-appreciated carbon stocks, which if protected, can help Canada meet its climate and conservation targets, but only if there are major forestry reforms to protect carbon-dense old-growth forests.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Large-scale forest conservation with an Indigenous People in the Amazon<\/a><\/h3>
13\/10\/2020<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
This book chapter examines the struggle of the Kayap\u00f3 to protect their constitutional territorial rights in the highly-threatened southeastern Amazon of Brazil. 21st century alliances of the Kayap\u00f2 with conservation organisations have enabled protection of over 9 million hectares of their contiguous ratified territories.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Primary forests are being undervalued in the climate emergency<\/a><\/h3>
02\/06\/2020<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
The world's contain irreplaceable biodiversity and are critical to the regulation of the global climate and maintaining stable carbon pools. Carbon-dense primary forests are found in every major forest biome and they typically support higher levels of biodiversity than logged forests, especially imperiled and endemic species, yet their value is not fully recognised in climate policy.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div>
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Recognising the importance of unmanaged forests to mitigate climate change<\/a><\/h3>
27\/05\/2020<\/abbr><\/span><\/div>
The carbon stock in Europe's forests is decreasing and the importance of protecting \u2018unmanaged\u2019 forests must be recognised in reversing this process. Scientific evidence suggests that \u2018unmanaged\u2019 forests have higher total biomass carbon stock than secondary forests being actively managed for commodity production or recently abandoned.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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