The Social Benefits from Wild Nature Forum (SBF) aims to measure and evaluate how Nature influences and advances human wellbeing both socially, mentally and physically. This will include furthering employment opportunities and skills training.
The forum launches at WILD10 in Salamanca – the 10th World Wilderness Congress (www.wild10.org) and aims to establish a coordinated approach to highlight and demonstrate:
- The value of Social Benefits savings and economic advantage of this work to both Governments and NGO’s;
- The relationship that measuring Social Benefits has on evidencing the critical need for a global Nature Needs Half (TM) agenda;
- Demonstrating how the Social Benefits Forum outcomes can be used as a critical tool in the lobbying and influencing of decision takers in relation to the conservation and protection of Wild Land and Wilderness globally.
The Secretariat is hosted in the UK by registered charity The Wilderness Foundation and coordinated by Jo Roberts.