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Join the ILCN online for our 2024 Global Congress, cohosted by the Nature Conservancy of Canada, from October 16-18. The Congress, which is taking place in Quebec, Canada, will be partially broadcast online.

Broadcast sessions will cover key topics in conservation finance; conservation law and policy; land stewardship and management; organization and governance; and large landscape conservation. View the short schedule and full agenda on the Congress website here.

Sessions will be available in English and French for virtual participants around the globe.
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Featured Content
The Agricultural Context for the EU’s Unprecedented Nature Restoration Law
 

Lily Robinson - ILCN Program Coordinator
Mónica Vidal – Eurosite Project Officer
Carolina Halevy – ILCN Regional Representative for Europe

September 18, 2024

The European Union's new Nature Restoration Law went into effect on August 18, 2024. It is the first EU-wide legislation to bind nations to biodiversity restoration goals and, with no precedent to guide it, has stirred up significant controversy, especially among the agricultural sector. Farmers, ranchers, and conservationists share concerns over its transparency, feasibility, and equitability. 

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 Across Australia, Carran's Murals of Birdlife Explore Human Identity and Connection to Place
 


Lily Robinson – ILCN Program Coordinator 

August 26, 2024

The richness of flora and fauna endemic to Australia is unmatched anywhere in the world. About 85 percent of the nation’s plants are unique to the continent and half the world’s marsupial species are at home there. But one class of animals stands out most to artist Geoffrey Carran. Among this tapestry of vibrant biodiversity, he notices a special connection between people and native birds. “Everyone over here has a story about the birdlife,” he said

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Notes From the Field
Purpose, Results, and Potential
By Laura Johnson
September 2024

In a new working paper published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Laura Johnson, a founding member of the ILCN, reflects on the developments in the global land-conservation community over the past decade and the opportunities for the next. 


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A Stocktaking Report on OECMs in China: First Edition 
By Zhang et al.
2024

China is poised to embrace both top-down and bottom-up approaches to other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs). A new IUCN report analyzes the relevant policies and practices and the role the mechanisms will play in contributing to Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.

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Chile's Biodiversity at a Crossroads: Challenges and Promise of the Recent Law for Nature
By Eduardo Katz
September 16, 2024

Professor Eduardo Katz of the University of San Sebastián, Chile, synthesizes his recent report on the implementation of Law 21.600, also known as the Law for Nature, and challenges to effectively protecting 30 percent of Chile's ecosystems.

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Biodiversity Credits and the Value of Uniqueness
By Rowan Le Roux - Specialist contributor, Sustainable Finance Coalition
August 16, 2024

What if choosing biodiversity credits was as customizable as ordering a meal? Where people buy food depends on preferences from taste to price and performance. To realize their full potential, biodiversity credits need as much nuance so everyone can order off the menu.

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Inspiring a New Generation of Women Leaders in Sustainable Finance and Conservation
By Sustainable Finance Coalition
August 31, 2024

Women are both disproportionately impacted by climate and environmental degradation and underrepresented in finance and conservation. In August, the SFC celebrated a few of the sectors' most innovative women.

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Growing Harmony: Agriculture and Conservation
By Jeremy Hogan
August 19, 2024

Canada's native prairies provide critical ecosystem services while also hosting more than 70 percent of the nation's agricultural land. But prairies are threatened by striking biodiversity loss. In response, NCC is working diligently to bring these productive lands back into balance to ensure both food and natural resources remain plentiful and sustainable.

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Upcoming & Recent Events
ILCN International Breakfast at the Land Trust Alliance Rally 2024

Join colleagues advancing land conservation around the globe at the annual international breakfast at Rally, hosted by the International Land Conservation Network (ILCN). Laura Johnson, ILCN steering committee member and recipient of the 2023 Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award, will share insights on the progress of private and civic land conservation across six continents over the past ten years and the role, challenges, and opportunities facing this global community of practice in coming decades. If you are interested in attending, please sign up below.

September 27, 7am-8:15am (ET) - Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, Rhode Island
 
2024 Global Congress of the International Land Conservation Network

We are pleased to invite you to join our virtual live stream of the ILCN Global Congress, facilitated in partnership with The Nature Conservancy of Canada, this October. The congress will convene experts and practitioners advancing a whole-of-society approach toward realizing 30x30 around the theme of "Relationships for a Resilient Future". Together, we will build the capacity and coherence of private and civic academic, Indigenous, and other-essential sectors engaged in land conservation on six continents. It will also celebrate the monumental accomplishments of colleagues from our host-region of Quebec, Canada, where exemplary achievements have been reached in conserving land and water resources. 

October 16-18 - Virtual (In-person by invitation only)
 
The Global Nature Positive Summit 2024
 
Co-hosted by the Australian-federal and New-South-Wales state governments, the Global Nature Positive Summit will accelerate collective action to drive investment in nature and strengthen activities to protect and repair the environment.

It will bring together leaders from government, corporate sectors, research and environmental organizations and Indigenous Peoples.

At the Summit, leaders will explore effective ways to realize global commitments under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. The event will build understanding of changes required to systems and settings to value nature and address biodiversity loss.

October 8 - 10, Sydney, Australia
ALCA Private Land Conservation Conference 2024 (PLC24)
 
The Australian Land Conservation Alliance's (ALCA) annual conference is a vital platform for exploring barriers and opportunities to accelerate and expand nature action and finance. This year's theme is Nature Now: Action for People and Planet and is an opportunity to reflect, network, showcase, collaborate, and advance solutions that enable people and communities to protect, manage, and restore nature on privately managed land, at scale. 

PLC24 will be delivered as a two-day program of workshops, plenaries and concurrent sessions with an exciting line-up of Australian and international speakers. It will run adjacent to the first Global Nature Positive Summit.

October 10-11, Sydney, Australia
 
16th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16)
 
COP16 will be the first biodiversity COP since the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework was widely adopted in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada. This year's meeting will ask governments to turn to the task of reviewing the framework and for parties to show how they are aligning with it through the development of National Biodiversity Strategies and Acton Plans. It will also serve as a platform to further develop the monitoring framework and advance resource mobilization.

October 21 - November 1, Cali, Colombia
 
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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