International Land Conservation Network News

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 […]

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, […]

As of last month, Canadian land trusts have a new way to demonstrate their integrity: the Conservation Excellence Certification Trustmark. The certification proves that a land trust has undergone a thorough, third-party review of its policies and procedures by the Canadian Centre for Land Conservation (CLC) and that they operate in line with industry best […]

Hernan Mladinic For decades, a network of Latin American practitioners advancing private and civic land conservation in the region has worked to support efforts to reverse and mitigate the impact of increasing environmental pressures in the region. It has done so partly by convening regular international Congresses. But, despite the key role of these Congresses […]

Six Canadian land trusts celebrated a pioneering accomplishment this week when they became the nation’s first to earn Conservation Excellence Certification from the Centre for Land Conservation (CLC).

Jose Ramón Delgado, Edgard Yerena, & Vilisa Morón Venezuela has a long-standing history of conserving land, primarily through state-managed protected areas. A wave of environmental activism in the 1970s strengthened the movement, inviting greater citizen participation and opening the door to voluntary civil-society conservation. This was bolstered in 2003 when a group of landowners established […]

Cecilia Riebl & Peter Mulherin In the face of unprecedented biodiversity, climate, and geopolitical challenges worldwide, grassroots networks are increasingly critical to conservation outcomes. In Australia, the independent not-for-profit member organization Land Covenantors Victoria (LCV) demonstrates this by empowering private landowners to take meaningful, local conservation action. “We are living in a time of great […]

Maiko Nishi – Research Fellow, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability  The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) was the first such meeting since nations adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) in 2022. That framework ignited hope and mobilized coordinated action […]

Carolina Butrich – Manager, Conservamos por Naturaleza Peru is a country of incredible megadiversity and home to an extraordinary range of natural habitats, ranging from the majestic Andes to the vast Amazon rainforest. At 1.2 million square kilometers, Peru is Latin America’s fourth largest country, and more than 60 percent of its area is rainforest. […]