Name: Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land - SDG Series | Academy 4 Social Change
Uploaded: 2025-05-26T00:15:27.000Z
Duration: 2 min 35 s
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Academy for Social Change presents Sustainable Development Goal 15, Life on Land.

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Every year, 13 million hectares of forest are lost, land degradation has led to 3.6 million hectares of desertification or the loss of fertile land.

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Forests cover 30% of the earth and help reduce climate change while providing food and shelter, they're home to both diverse ecosystems as well as indigenous populations.

About 1.6 billion people rely on forests for their livelihoods.

Despite growing global awareness of land degradation, invasive species, poaching, and trafficking of wildlife, these factors still threaten the preservation of biodiversity and the habitats in which they and indigenous people reside.

If no action is taken, 1 million plant and animal species will become extinct in the near future.

aims to preserve ecosystems that are home to a wide variety of biodiversity and to protect plants and wildlife.

SDG 15 has 12 targets or sub-goals and 14 indicators, which are statistics that determine if the goal is being achieved or not.

For example, target 15.1 aims to restore and conserve land and freshwater ecosystems by 2020, another target in target 15.8 seeks to stop the spread of alien species in both land and water ecosystems.

is the proportion of forest area to total land area, similarly, the number of countries adopting appropriate legislation and measures against invasive species is an indicator of target 15.8.

Unfortunately, not much progress has been made towards SDG 15.

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Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land - SDG Series | Academy 4 Social Change

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