These include the EPA, US Forest Service, US National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, Society for Conservation Biology, and many others. The IUCN is also one of the primary promoters and developers of the Convention on Biological Diversity. This perhaps explains why the US Government and environmental organizations appear to be working in concert to implement the Wildlands project and Biodiversity Treaty even though the treaty has not been ratified. The map incorporates, when available, actual maps as well as a multitude of government and environmental literature demanding various reserves or national parks interconnected with corridors. And grand it is.
Core reserves are wilderness areas that supposedly allow biodiversity to flourish.
All roads should be permanently closed. Corridors several miles wide are needed if the objective is to maintain resident populations of large carnivores. While this effort has a noble mission, the implications are staggering. If fully implemented, the Convention On Biological Diversity would have to displace millions of people through unacceptable regulations, nationalization of private land, and forcing people to move out of core reserve areas and inner buffer zones. It would seriously reduce the production of agriculture, forest, and mining products.