SDG 15: Life on Land

“Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss”

Please click here for a full, international overview of SDG 15: Life on Land.


How is Boston tracking toward SDG 15: Life on Land?

I want to advocate for Life on Land, where do I start?


Start advocating by picking an indicator that needs your help…

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Support these regional organizations

  • Volunteer with Speak for the Trees Boston and fight environmental injustice by ensuring underserved urban communities have green space and trees in their communities.

Support these national/international organizations

  • Become a member or plant trees with the National Forest Foundation: a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works to engage Americans with the protection of U.S. forests. It has a special fund especially those prone to wildfires.


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Support regional organizations

  • Become a member of Mass Audubon, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that “focuses on protecting Massachusetts nature for people and for wildlife.

  • Read about Mass Climate Action Network’s Dirty Energy campaign to understand the facts about how energy pollution is impacting Massachusetts’s environment.

Key pieces of legislation

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Support these national/international organizations

  • Donate to the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, a multilateral group of over 50 rainforest nations that works with the community and government to prevent rainforest deforestation.


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Support these regional organizations

  • Support Harvard Forest, a 4,000 acre area of primarily natural forest that is the site of research on environmental protection and land use management.

  • Become a member of Mass Audubon, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that “focuses on protecting Massachusetts nature for people and for wildlife.

Support these national/international organizations

  • Become a member or plant trees with the National Forest Foundation: a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works to engage Americans with the protection of U.S. forests. It has a special fund especially those prone to wildfires.

Student Spotlight 15

Use this template to write to your elected official in support of Life On Land


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