By Shanshui Conservation Center & Shenmin Liu, ILCN Regional Representative for Asia On October 21, 2024, China declared its first 12 potential Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measure (OECM) sites, plus an additional 34 shortlisted sites. The announcement was made to a global audience at a side event of the 16th United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) […]

By Cecilia Riebl In October 2024, 260 conservationists from 26 countries convened in Beaupré, Canada, at the 2024 ILCN Global Congress to share knowledge and develop solutions around the Congress theme, “relationships for a resilient world.” Among these participants were 14 Australian land conservation practitioners for whom the event spurred learning and reflection on the […]

In the 1970s in France, as across much of the world, environmental concerns were rising. The first half of the 20th century was marked with startling declines in wild mammal populations across Europe that corresponded with loose hunting laws and significant habitat loss. Individuals, organizations, and government agencies across France were responding, working to conserve ecosystems […]

By Hernan Mladinic and Lily Robinson Seventeen speakers and participants from Latin American nations joined a gathering of 260 conservation leaders from around the world at the fourth International Land Conservation Network (ILCN) Global Congress in Beaupré, Canada, last month. The event marked just over four years since ILCN Regional Representative for Latin America Hernan […]

In 2020, in the region of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico—an expanse of high evergreen and evergreen tropical forest, defined by volcanic mountain ranges, and rich in diverse, endemic flora and fauna—a series of political-campaign posters began appearing around Veracruz. It was not an election year, and the signs did not promote any of the nation’s mainstream […]

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, […]

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 […]

Lily Robinson This artist profile is one in an ongoing series highlighting the role creative work plays in connecting people with nature and inspiring a culture of stewardship. If you are an artist whose work is inspired by nature and would like to be featured in a future ILCN newsletter, please reach out to lrobinson@lincolninst.edu. We […]

Cecilia Riebl – ILCN Regional Representative for Australasia On a fine fall afternoon in June 2024, a group of conservation policy makers from Australia and the United States met at the conservation and research reserve Mt Rothwell, just 50 kilometers from Melbourne, Australia. As dusk fell over the shrub- and rock-dotted landscape around them, animals […]

Shenmin Liu – ILCN Regional Representative for Asia At the beginning of the 21st century, the scientific community pitched the idea of the Anthropocene epoch. Their argument: that human impact on Earth has become so great that its biophysical changes warrant a formal tip-of-the-hat to the 11,700-year-long Holocene epoch, and the acknowledgement of a new […]