One Health Seminar Series: Common ground conservation: Can One Health approaches reverse the loss of biodiversity?

Canada is one of 196 countries committed to reversing the loss of nature through the Global Biodiversity Framework. Implementing the framework to solve complex challenges will require innovative solutions, new approaches, and unexpected alliances. Conservation scientist Dan Kraus will share insights into the current state of nature conservation in Canada, including the country’s new 2030 Nature Strategy. He will also explore successful conservation collaborations, emphasize the critical role of listening and trust, and discuss how adopting One Health approaches can lead to better outcomes for both nature and people.

About Dan Kraus: Dan is a conservation scientist with over 30 years of experience across public, private, and non-governmental sectors, including Senior Conservation Biologist for the Nature Conservancy of Canada and Director of National Conservation for Wildlife Conservation Society Canada. Dan currently serves on the IUCN Species Survival Commission and Canada’s Nature Advisory Committee. He also served for over a decade as a member and Deputy Chair of Ontario’s Committee on the Status of Species at Risk and was a founding board member of the Ontario Invasive Plant Council. Passionate about making conservation science accessible, Dan’s editorials, articles, and interviews have been featured in media across Canada. He currently conducts research and teaches about conservation at the University of Waterloo, works as a consultant for government and industry on projects focused on transformative approaches to biodiversity conservation, and serves on the One Health program advisory board at the University of Guelph. Dan lives with his family at the headwaters of Bronte Creek in the Lake Ontario watershed just east of Guelph where he enjoys chopping wood and raising happy chickens.

The One Health Seminar Series showcases the depth and breadth of One Health research at the University of Guelph, and beyond! These 50-minute talks feature a 30-minute presentation by a One Health practitioner, followed by an audience Q&A. Everyone is welcome, particularly graduate students and faculty.