We aim to inspire people across the world to take action to ensure a thriving future for wild salmon. Wild Salmon Connections will demonstrate the significance of wild salmon as a barometer for the health of the planet. We will highlight the huge economic, social and environmental value of wild salmon to communities, the economy and the wider public. An understanding of these values will support advocacy, policymaking and galvanise action to protect and restore the species.

We will demonstrate that success is possible and push stakeholders to go further, faster, to safeguard wild salmon and their habitats. Wild Salmon Connections will illustrate the state of wild salmon populations and showcase projects which demonstrate leadership and action. We will provide a forum to enable stakeholders to work together to meet the challenge of the salmon crisis. This includes exploring approaches to landscape scale restoration to provide cold, clean water, looking at progress on barrier removal, debating interactions between aquaculture and wild salmon, and agreeing urgent action at sea.

The critical role of finance - both public and private - in supporting environmental restoration is set out in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Wild Salmon Connections seeks to mobilise this finance. We aim to show that the salmon world is ready for investment in landscape scale restoration which provides benefits for salmon, people and the planet. We will demonstrate successful partnerships between projects and funders and explore how to hasten the roll-out of such initiatives. We will define opportunities and next steps to secure thriving wild salmon at the heart of healthy ecosystems.