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.

A new scheme being piloted in Romania looks to support traditional farming techniques that promote biodiversity and long-term ecosystem health, while also improving farmers’ livelihoods.

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 […]

News of the disease first reached painter Sue Prince and her husband on their organic dairy farm a few years ago. Prince had not noticed the subtle changes, the slow fading of life from the landscape, as a fungus took root in England’s Peak District. Once she did, she saw it everywhere. Ash dieback was […]