International Land Conservation Network News

By Cecilia Riebl – ILCN Regional Representative for Australasia Where are young people in the conservation movement? Across other parts of civil society – climate activism, social justice movements, community health, even political campaigning – young people are highly visible. They are organizing, volunteering, building movements, and, in many cases, leading. Yet in nature-based work, […]

By Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA) Global momentum is building to achieve Target 3 of the Global Biodiversity Framework, which sets a goal of conserving at least 30 percent of Earth by 2030. With just over four years left, urgency is key to safeguarding the planet’s ecosystems. In Africa, only 16 percent of land is […]

By Taylor Black and Mónica Vidal After a gust of wind blew Henk’s hat into the water, it didn’t take long for Paul to roll up his trousers and wade in to retrieve it. Armed with a walking stick, he returned hat-in-hand to a round of applause. This moment, on Day 3 of Eurosite’s Nature-based […]

Hernán Mladinic Over the past three decades, a transformative force for nature conservation has emerged in Brazil: private landowners. The country’s leadership in private land conservation through private natural heritage reserves (RPPNs) has resulted in one of the world’s most robust and enduring voluntary conservation models. This approach integrates property rights with a perpetual ecological […]

Jayant Sarnaik, Archana Godbole, Gunwant Mahajan India, one of the world’s 17 megadiverse countries, is home to four global biodiversity hotspots. One of these, the Western Ghats, is among the most heavily populated hotspots in the world, providing critical land and water resources to more than 400 million people across six Indian states. Running approximately […]

Shenmin Liu and Chunyue Wei In a significant step toward meeting global biodiversity conservation targets, conservationists in China have unveiled a second set of potential “Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures” (OECMs) cases in China. Following the release of the first set of 56 cases in 2024, Shan Shui Conservation Center and several partner organizations organized […]

500-in-5 will leverage private landholders and cutting-edge science with the aim of achieving pioneering outcomes for threatened species

Earlier this month, the ILCN joined voluntary land conservation leaders from the public, non-governmental, Indigenous, private, multi-lateral, and academic sectors in Panama City, Panama, for the 13th Latin American Congress on Voluntary Conservation. The gathering, which was hosted by the Panamanian Association of Private Natural Reserves, was the first meeting of the voluntary conservation community […]

In 2023, Yolanda Busbee Methvin was looking to create a marketing campaign for a new snack product her health and wellness company, LithaFlora African Botanicals, was selling. What she developed was a far cry from your traditional advertisement. The 13-minute film tells the story of an African girl’s health struggles and journey to healing guided […]

Harm Schoten More than 100 people from 20 European countries attended the 36th Eurosite Annual Meeting, in Vilnius, Lithuania, from September 9-11. The theme of the event, which was hosted by Baltic Environmental Forum with the help of the Lithuanian Foundation for Peatland Restoration and Conservation, was “Restoring Nature, Reviving Communities. Eurosite Director Harm Schoten […]