International Land Conservation Network News

By Thomas Patti As the global effort to conserve 30 percent of the planet’s lands and waters approaches its 2030 goal under Target 3 of the Global Biodiversity Framework, other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) are generating enormous international interest as a way to welcome the contributions of a range of actors, from communities to […]

By Robin Beckham Robin Beckham, Policy Analyst for Land Conservation at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, represented the International Land Conservation Network (ILCN) at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on August 19-27. Taking place during the UN Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, COP17 celebrated herders and other rangeland users […]

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 […]