A window into the COP 15 Biodiversity Summit
Raincoast’s focus at COP 15 has extended beyond our usual BC-based conservation focus to advance ways to implement these world-wide biodiversity targets.
Robert Gardiner
Robert Gardiner is a lawyer and long time advocate for animal welfare. His past efforts include improving Canada’s Wildlife Guidelines, protecting experimental and wild animals, adopting improvements affecting the humane treatment of animals in Canada’s Criminal Code, and many humane trapping initiatives and regulations enacted by the provinces and territories. He initiated the World Conservation Union’s phrase “The use of wildlife must be sustainable and humane” and has fulfilled various capacities as a founding member of Pollution Probe, the VP and 30-year director of the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, as president of LEGHOLD! and of the Canadian Association for Humane Trapping.