Lily Robinson – ILCN program coordinator Mónica Vidal – Eurosite project officer Carolina Halevy – ILCN regional representative for Europe As a child, Attila Tóth used to ski in the hills of Slovakia. Looking out over expansive steppes, lowland hay meadows, and species-rich dry grasslands, he dreamed of one day grazing cows there. But when […]
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Lily Robinson – Program Coordinator, ILCN Javiera Yáñez – Director of Development and Communications, Tierra Austral In late 2021, a group of conservationists stepped out of a car in Chile’s Cerro Poqui Nature Sanctuary in the O’Higgins Region of Central Chile, less than two hours south of Santiago. They gazed out over the mountain range […]
Read moreLily Robinson – Program Coordinator, ILCN In December 2023, an Australian law came into effect to enable the world’s first national voluntary biodiversity market and establishing the infrastructure for it to function with transparency and integrity. The Nature Repair Act 2023 (the Act) paves the way for a marketplace that will open in 2025 where […]
Read moreCecilia Riebl — ILCN Regional Rep. for Australasia In nations across the world, other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) are taking on new urgency, as nations race to fulfill their commitments to protect 30 percent of land and water territory by 2030. The Australian Government does not yet recognize OECMs, but is in the process […]
Read moreSamuel Valdes Diaz – Director of Biodiversity Consultant Group Latin America is a rich mosaic of cultures and boasts exuberant biodiversity across its landscapes. With over 8.8 million square kilometers of marine and terrestrial protected areas (PAs)—a figure 15 times larger than Spain, France, and Germany combined—it also stands as the most protected region on […]
Read moreCarolina Halevy – ILCN Regional Representative for Europe, Project Manager at Eurosite Anne-Sophie Mulier – Project & Policy officer at the European Landowners’ Organization Private land conservation (PLC) is an essential part of Europe’s nature and biodiversity strategy. Without it, European Union (EU) nations lack the necessary land to achieve nature and biodiversity targets, as […]
Read moreShenmin Liu – ILCN Regional Representative for Asia On October 6, 2023, the automotive brand Honda announced that Mobility Resort Motegi—a racing circuit primarily used to promote the brand—was one of the first areas in Japan to be recognized under the classification of Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measure (OECM). The move is part of a […]
Read moreCarolina Halevy – ILCN Regional Representative for Europe How can nature protection on private land be guaranteed long term? How can conservationists incentivize landowners to protect nature on their land? These two intertwined questions have been on the minds of European conservationists for years and are now the basis for a paper, cowritten by Eurosite, […]
Read moreCecilia Riebl – ILCN Regional Representative for Australasia In a world-first, the Australian government has created a national, voluntary, legislated nature-repair market intended to mobilise private-sector capital for nature restoration and preservation, and to reward landholders for protecting biodiversity. The market will be an important component of meeting the country’s commitment to protect and restore […]
Read moreShenmin Liu – ILCN Regional Representative for Asia The first China Conservation Biology Conference was held in Guangzhou, China, November 24-17. The event attracted 920 participants, including researchers and conservation professionals from 208 institutions nationwide. It served as a platform for a cross-sector exploration of Civic Protected Areas (CPAs) and Other Effective Conservation Mechanisms (OECMs) […]
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