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 […]

Lily Robinson – ILCN Program Coordinator The path along the Nashua River has softened to sandy mud and the wood bridges that span it puddle beneath Marion Stoddart’s boots. The Mine Falls Park section of the Nashua River Greenway is just three miles from downtown Nashua, New Hampshire, but is sheltered by arbor. In the […]

Lily Robinson – Program Coordinator, ILCN Javiera Yáñez – Director of Development and Communications, Tierra Austral In late 2021, a group of conservationists stepped out of a car in Chile’s Cerro Poqui Nature Sanctuary in the O’Higgins Region of Central Chile, less than two hours south of Santiago. They gazed out over the mountain range […]

Lily Robinson – Program Coordinator, ILCN In December 2023, an Australian law came into effect to enable the world’s first national voluntary biodiversity market and establishing the infrastructure for it to function with transparency and integrity. The Nature Repair Act 2023 (the Act) paves the way for a marketplace that will open in 2025 where […]

Cecilia Riebl — ILCN Regional Rep. for Australasia In nations across the world, other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) are taking on new urgency, as nations race to fulfill their commitments to protect 30 percent of land and water territory by 2030. The Australian Government does not yet recognize OECMs, but is in the process […]

Kiragu Mwangi – ILCN Regional Representative for Africa José Monteiro — Executive Director, ReGeCom In February 2018, a cross-sector group of leaders gathered in Maputo, Mozambique. They had come together around mounting concerns that communities were being left out of land conservation at both the decision-making and implementation level. There, at the 5th Conference on […]

Samuel Valdes Diaz – Director of Biodiversity Consultant Group Latin America is a rich mosaic of cultures and boasts exuberant biodiversity across its landscapes. With over 8.8 million square kilometers of marine and terrestrial protected areas (PAs)—a figure 15 times larger than Spain, France, and Germany combined—it also stands as the most protected region on […]

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. […]

Carolina Halevy – ILCN Regional Representative for Europe, Project Manager at Eurosite Anne-Sophie Mulier – Project & Policy officer at the European Landowners’ Organization Private land conservation (PLC) is an essential part of Europe’s nature and biodiversity strategy. Without it, European Union (EU) nations lack the necessary land to achieve nature and biodiversity targets, as […]