Each year more and more virgin habitat is lost around the world to the onslaught of development. As development expands and intensifies, existing protected habitats become strained and degraded. With each acre of land degraded or developed, additional species go extinct, leaving our world a much poorer place and leaving the planet in a more precarious position to combat the negative effects of climate change. Cascadia will focus on mitigating Habitat Loss within its own boundaries of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon as well as providing leadership abroad.