{"id":7892,"date":"2020-06-23T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=7892"},"modified":"2020-06-23T13:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:39:19","slug":"a-message-from-our-ceo-on-racism-and-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/a-message-from-our-ceo-on-racism-and-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"A Message from Our CEO on Racism and Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Recent days and weeks of media attention on racism and discrimination in the U<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Canada and around the world have brought pain, grief, frustration and anger, but also hope.\u202f <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Canadian Wildlife Federation shares that sense of hope for change as part of our mission is focused on conservation of wildlife and habitat \u201c\u2026for the use and enjoyment of all.\u201d \u202fWhile messages of support for change are helpful, long-term commitment to action that makes <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">real<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> change is needed.\u202f <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">CWF has taken action over many years and is building on this through a comprehensive approach that includes working with <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">all<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> staff to learn from their experience<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, review of current policies, training and working with external experts to assess <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">continue to improve our practices and progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Real progress on these issues can only come from a long-term commitment to make actual changes <strong>\u2014<\/strong> one person and one organization at a time.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Recent days and weeks of media attention on racism and discrimination in the U.S., Canada and around the world have brought pain, grief, frustration and anger, but also hope.\u202f The&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connect-with-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7893,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions\/7893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}