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ACLT: Empowering Canada's Land Trust Community

Photo Credit: Joaquín Riesgo. This photo was taken during the session Reconciliation: Journey of Our Generation, an experiential workshop facilitated by a Quw’utsun’ Elder, during the 2025 Canadian Land Trust Summit in November 2025.

January 9, 2026

The Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts (ACLT) is the national voice for local and regional land trusts working to conserve nature across Canada. Created in response to a clear need identified by land trusts themselves, ACLT exists for land trusts, by land trusts, to ensure the sector has strong national representation, coordinated advocacy, and the tools needed to succeed.

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News from the ILCN
Global Landscape Stewards Becomes a Working Group of the ILCN

January 13, 2026

We are pleased to announce that Global Landscape Stewards (GLS) is joining the ILCN as its first official working group. By aligning and integrating their efforts, the ILCN and GLS look forward to strengthening their collaboration and fostering exchange among stewardship practitioners and policymakers around the globe.

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Announcing ILCN's new Regional Representative for Africa: Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association
January 19, 2026

Since 2018, ILCN has been working to strengthen and expand our connections and engagement with conservation practitioners and organizations in Africa. Beginning this month, Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA) will serve as ILCN's Africa regional representative. ILCN regional representatives support and facilitate knowledge exchange amongst practitioners in the region and around the globe.

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ILCN Case Study on the Staying Connected Initiative: Enhancing Transborder Connectivity in Northeastern North America
January 13, 2026

This case study offers a deep dive into the Staying Connected Initiative, a bi-national partnership spanning 5 northeastern US states and 3 eastern Canadian provinces who are collaborating to maintain and increase ecological connectivity across the approximately 80-million-ace Northern Appalachian-Acadian region. Bringing together more than 80 organizations, SCI addresses habitat fragmentation through conservation planning, land protection, road-barrier mitigation, and policy engagement- efforts that have helped to conserve over one million acres of private land and advance regional commitments.

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Notes From the Field

What we're reading, watching, and listening to
Virtual ILCN Conservation Innovation Award Ceremony Honors 2025 Recipient Fundación Tierra Austral
December 11, 2025

In December, the ILCN honored Fundación Tierra Austral (FTA) in an award ceremony to celebrate its significant contributions to private land conservation in Chile. In December, ILCN hosted a virtual award ceremony to recognize and celebrate Fundación Tierra Austral (FTA)'s implementation of a new tool and framework for private land conservation in Chile.

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ILCN/CLLC Webinar: Community Planning and Habitat Connectivity
December 17, 2025
 
This webinar, co-hosted by ILCN and the Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC) explores insights from CLLC's recently released report, Integrating Wildlife Habitat Connectivity into Local Government Planning. Panelists addressed real-world examples of progress and shared reflections on how these strategies may be relevant to and adapted for us in landscapes around the world.

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Farms, Forests, and Funding: Innovations in Conservation Finance

Jon Gorey
December 1, 2025

Around the world, conservation finance is shifting quickly, driven by changing economic conditions and the urgent need for durable, scalable solutions to protect nature.

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Recent Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Papers
 
Opportunities
Online Course: Introduction to Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs)

The course introduces the foundational concepts and practical steps involved in advancing enabling conditions, identifying, reporting, monitoring, and strengthening other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs). Based on the official IUCN guidance resulting from the CBD OECM framework, this course presents general principles, key criteria, and globally applicable best practices for OECM recognition across diverse governance and management types.

This course is designed primarily for conservation practitioners, policymakers, researchers, community leaders, and others engaged in area-based conservation. It is also accessible to a general audience with an interest in expanding and strengthening their knowledge of OECMs.

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Upcoming Events
Biodiversity, Climate and Income Generation in the Context of RPPNs

This event will explore the importance of RPPNs for biodiversity conservation, promote the exchange of experiences, strengthen institutional partnerships, and give visibility to initiatives developed by owners, organizations, and institutions committed to the protection of Brazilian natural heritage.
 
The program will include institutional sessions, technical presentations, and dialogue spaces, addressing topics such as:
* Long-distance trails;
* Environmental Reserve Quotas;
* Carbon credits in RPPNs, with emphasis on the Cristalino Project.
 
The event is organized by Funatura and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, through the GEF Private Areas Project, with support from ICMBio.

ICMBio Auditorium, Brasília, Brazil
January 30, 2026 08:00 BRT
Transforming Landscapes with Pollinator Research: A Discussion for Land and Protected Area Managers

The Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) and European Landowners' Organization (ELO) are hosting a hybrid workshop to explore cutting-edge research on pollinators in Europe’s semi-natural dry grasslands.

Researchers from the Safeguard Project will share their findings, followed by an interactive Q&A on what this means in practice for land and protected area managers.

Brussels, Belgium, and Online
February 25, 10:00-16:30 CET

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Western Collaborative Conservation Network Confluence 2026
 
Confluence 2026, hosted by the Western Collaborative Conservation Network, will take place May 19th–21st in Fort Collins, CO, with a focus on The Future of Collaboration: The Power of Working Across Divides. This year’s event emphasizes collaborative skill‑building; Indigenous engagement led by Trees, Water & People; and community connection through Crowd Conservation’s Mentorship Match program.

Fort Collins, CO, USA
May 19-21, 2026

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2026 Conservation Finance Bootcamp
 
The Conservation Finance Network (CFN) will be hosting their 21st annual Conservation Finance Boot Camp June 2nd-5th, 2026 at the Yale School of the Environment in New Haven, CT, in partnership with the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. The Boot Camp helps early- and mid-career professionals understand innovative and effective financing strategies to achieve durable, equitable, and climate-resilient conservation, restoration, and stewardship of natural resources.

New Haven, CT, USA
June 2-6, 2026

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We are excited to share stories from ILCN members. If you have a conservation initiative, opportunity, or event to share, 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. 

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