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In Cambodia and Vietnam community conservation is filling gaps left in government-led land protection
By Lily Robinson, ILCN News and Creative Content Editor and Shenmin Liu, ILCN Regional Representative for Asia
November 5, 2022
The two south Asian countries are havens of biodiversity and their legal frameworks are being developed to better facilitate land conservation. Where government initiatives fall short, private and non-governmental organizations are stepping in to empower community action.
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| The Sustainable Finance Coalition's first Landscape Finance Boot Camp showcased the power of collaboration and shared language |
By Lily Robinson, ILCN News and Creative Content Editor
November 5, 2022
When the Sustainable Finance Coalition began floating the idea of hosting a conservation finance event, it identified an area of weakness for environmental entrepreneurship: a lack of shared language. Each field has its own terminology for discussing concepts within its industry, which deterred effective cross-sector communication and collaboration. But what if conservation, finance, and business leaders could come together in one room and spend a day learning alongside each other, networking, and building bridges between the industries? This was the goal of the coalition's day-long boot camp, held in Sandton, South Africa on Oct. 4.
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| The ILCN's Land Trusts & Climate Change page presents a wealth of stories on innovation in conservation |
The resource presents a dozen cases of land trusts pioneering solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss across the globe. It tells stories, such as that narrated in Eva Vayhinger's Restoration of the Lower Havel River in Northeast Germany, in which a boy's childhood promise to his grandfather catalyzes a large-scale project to restore an industrialized landscape to its natural state.
Read an abridged version of Vayhinger's case study here
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