International Land Conservation Network News

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 […]

In the United States, average home values have nearly doubled in the past decade. As demand for homes most people can afford remains high, supply has been unable to keep pace. This shortage of affordable homes is matched by rising demand and need for open space to support biodiversity, climate resilience, food production and recreation, […]

Colorado’s San Luis Valley lies in the imprint of an ancient lake, long dried. Its borders are the ring of mountains once its shores, and beneath its surface lies the vast web of the Rio Grande Aquifer. This aquifer sustains the largely agricultural economies of San Luis Valley’s five counties. But increasingly, it struggles to […]

How the US has spurred conservation innovation and the mechanisms that have endured the most.