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 […]

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 […]

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).

Shenmin Liu & Lily Robinson There are over 3,000 colleges and universities in China, many with expansive urban campuses. But not all of these acres are concrete and brick, or even quads and athletic fields. Increasingly, students and faculty are using their campuses for a less traditional purpose: biodiversity conservation.   A history of voluntary investment […]

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 […]

Bison once freely roamed grasslands and prairies from Mexico to Alaska. Herds of several thousand traipsed patterns into the landscape, the weight and scuff of their hooves, their grazing behavior, and the nutrients of their dung all taking, coaxing, and replenishing health and balance across ecosystems. Beginning in the 1800s, hunters began to deplete these […]

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 […]