Two people pause for a picture while undertaking stewardship work in a Canadian wetland.

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 […]

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. […]

Cecilia Riebl – ILCN Regional Representative for Australasia Since 2021, the United Nations and International Energy Agency have been calling for the world to scale up renewable energy use to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. In the years since, policies, technologies, and knowledge surrounding renewables have made them more effective, accessible, and desirable. But […]

Anele Kumalo & Natasha Wilson South African National Parks (SANParks) is the largest statutory conservation agency in South Africa. Currently, SANParks manages 4.2 million hectares of land, comprised of 22 national parks and four marine protected areas (MPAs). Its mandates for managing these protected areas are set out in the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas […]

On October 10, 2024, the Kawartha Land Trust (KLT) and its partners launched the Kawartha Resilient Lands Collaborative at a well-attended kickoff event in Peterborough, Ontario. The new Regional Conservation and Climate Partnership (RCCP) looks to bridge sectoral divides among people and organizations working in land, water, climate, and conservation. While inspired by the RCCP […]