International Land Conservation Network News

Since 2018, ILCN has been working to strengthen and expand our connections and engagement with conservation practitioners and organizations in Africa. Beginning this month, Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA) will serve as ILCN’s Africa regional representative. ILCN regional representatives support and facilitate knowledge exchange amongst practitioners in the region and around the globe. With a […]

Global Landscape Stewards (GLS) is an initiative dedicated to weaving a diverse network of stewardship practitioners worldwide. Founded by a group of stewardship practitioners based in the western United States, our exchanges serve to accelerate the pace and amplify the impact of land stewardship globally and locally. The creation of GLS was inspired by the […]

The Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts (ACLT) is the national voice for local and regional land trusts working to conserve nature across Canada. Created in response to a clear need identified by land trusts themselves, ACLT exists for land trusts, by land trusts, to ensure the sector has strong national representation, coordinated advocacy, and the […]

Chandni Navalkha We are thrilled to announce that Fundación Tierra Austral is the recipient of the inaugural ILCN Conservation Innovation Award. A non-profit organization founded in 2012, Fundación Tierra Austral (FTA) was Chile’s first land trust – known in the country as a Conservation Guarantee Organization, a non-profit entity whose mission is the conservation of biodiversity […]

Over four days, 400 delegates from across Australia explored the theme “Scaling Up: Local Action for Global Solutions”, at the 2025 ALCA Conference. The gathering was a powerful moment for connection, reflection, and action, and reminded us that each of us holds a piece of the solution, and when we align local impact with global […]

In November 2025, Eurosite – the European Land Conservation Network launched a new working group aimed at fostering the contribution of private subjects to nature conservation and nature finance. The group will focus on strengthening policy and practice for private land conservation initiatives as well as scalable, sustainable finance mechanisms that mobilize private investment. Angelo […]

From October 7-15, 2025, ILCN attended the 2025 International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress (IUCN WCC) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This quadrennial gathering brings together IUCN members and observers to explore major issues, exchange knowledge, set priorities and drive conservation action. In 2025, the event drew an estimated 10,000 participants from […]

Roberto de la Maza H. and Diego Guzmán V. Biodiversity conservation in Latin America, a region home to 6 of the world’s 17 megadiverse countries, is a priority for ensuring sustainability, social well-being, and compliance with international commitments. National governments bear the primary responsibility for this purpose, mainly through the establishment of traditional Protected Areas […]

By Cecilia Riebl, ILCN Regional Representative (Australasia), and acknowledging the contributions from the Quoin team and the Australian Land Conservation Alliance team. A little over a decade ago, three Australian entrepreneurs cofounded the design platform Canva. Within six years of its launch, Canva became a “unicorn startup,” meaning it was valued at over one billion […]

By Kristina McGeehan QUEBEC, CANADA—Two chiefs of Indigenous Nations in North America will accept the 2024 International Land Conservation Network (ILCN) Conservation Visionary Award for their vision and leadership in setting strategically significant global precedents for land conservation. Mandy Gull-Masty, Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) and Chairperson of the Cree Nation Government, […]