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The ILCN issued a corrected version of its Report on the 2024 Global Congress of the International Land Conservation Network in December 2024. Please see the updated report here. 
Featured Content
Kawartha Land Trust Pioneers a New Type of Conservation Partnership in Ontario
 

Lily Robinson - ILCN Program Coordinator
December 17, 2024

The United States has over 550 Regional Conservation Partnerships (RCP), which are an emerging tool for collaborative land and resource conservation, but the model is not yet common in Canada. In October 2024, the Kawartha Land Trust launched one of the nation's first such organizations in Ontario. It draws on models from the United States but does not limit itself to existing frameworks. The Kawartha Resilient Lands Collaborative aims to be inclusive, curious, and tailored to meet the unique needs of its communities.

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With Pen and Ink, Mattie Rose Templeton Illustrates the Importance of Darkness and the Intricacies of Nature
 


Lily Robinson – ILCN Program Coordinator 
December 12, 2024

We are so used to light, that we sometimes forget the importance of true darkness. Through art, Mattie Rose Templeton reminds us why creatures from insects to humans need it to stay healthy.

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Notes From the Field
Renewables vs. Nature
By Cecilia Riebl
January 9, 2025

As a leader in the journey to achieving net-zero emissions, Australia is grappling with questions about the renewable energy sector's impact on nature, including how to site projects responsibly and disentangle fact from fiction when it comes to the true threats of renewable infrastructure. 


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A Collective Legacy: Peru's Voluntary Conservation Movement
By Carolina Butrich
January 9, 2025

In Peru, a network of networks and an environmental law group are helping the nation achieve positive conservation outcomes and create policies to enable a more sustainable future. 


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Peatlands and the Path to Climate Neutrality
By Inga Račinska & Tilmann Disselhoff
November 11, 2024

The European Commission has a goal to reduce the EU's net GHG emissions by 90 percent by 2040, relative to 1990, and to reach climate neutrality by 2050. To do so, it will need to rewet nearly all its peatlands, which are its most carbon-rich ecosystems. Here's the data on what that challenge looks like. 

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Mega Living Landscapes Emerge as a Model for More Inclusive Conservation
By Anele Kumalo & Natasha Wilson
January 9, 2025

In South Africa, SANParks seeks to partner with longstanding land owners and users to protect land. Mega Living Landscapes enable them to establish protected areas that empower, rather than displace or disenfranchise, existing communities and economies. 

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How France Mobilized over 8,000 Volunteers as a Voice for Nature
By Lily Robinson
November 7, 2024

In the 1970s, France was grappling with startling declines in biodiversity, especially among wild mammal populations. Conservationists could not buy land fast enough to keep up with loose hunting laws and poor management practices. Instead, they began reaching out to landowners. 

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'People's COP' Saw Suspension in Negotiations but Strength from Private and Public Sectors
By Maiko Nishi 
January 15, 2025

Parties at COP16 left many important articles on the negotiating table, but the private sector made its time count, and the public showed up in unprecedented number. 


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Upcoming Events
International Land Conservation and New England: Presentation and Networking Session

Successful landscape-scale conservation projects can hinge on productive engagement across municipal, sectoral, and sometimes national boundaries, but these boundaries can also pose logistical challenges to planning and collaboration. In this presentation, ILCN Director Jim Levitt will look at the role of international communities of conservation, share insight on the work of the International Land Conservation Network (ILCN), and explore examples of cross-boundary conservation in New England and Canada.

This is a hybrid event. Both virtual and in-person participants are welcome to join the hour-long presentation and Q&A. In-person participants have the opportunity to stay after for a casual networking session.

This event is being put on by the Early Career Conservation Network, an interest group of the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition whose mission is to provide networking and training opportunities for those in their first 10 years of a career in land conservation.
 
January 29, 11am-12pm (presentation); 12pm-1pm (networking), Cambridge, MA, and Virtual

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Opportunities
Call for Artists
 
The ILCN is looking for submissions of artistic work with a connection to land and land protection to feature on our website and in upcoming newsletters. We are open to poetry, short stories, personal essays, visual art, music, and more. Submissions can be sent to Lily Robinson at lrobinson@lincolninst.edu. Please include a short description of the relationship your piece shares with land, nature, or the environment. 
We are excited to share stories from ILCN members. If you have a successful conservation initiative, story, event, or webinar to share, then please contact us at ILCN@lincolninst.edu.
The mission of the International Land Conservation Network is to connect organizations and people around the world that are accelerating voluntary private and civic sector action that protects and stewards land and water resources. 

Learn more at landconservationnetwork.org.
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