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Report on the 2024 Global Congress of the International Land Conservation Network

ILCN

Proceedings and reflections on the fourth ILCN Global Congress, hosted at Mont-Sainte Anne Hotel and Conference Centre in Beaupre, Quebec, and co-hosted by the Nature Conservancy of Canada.

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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Organization and Governance

Vietnam Country Profile

ILCN and UNDP

This report provides an overview of the status of Privately Protected Areas (PPAs) in Vietnam.

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Resource Type Country Profile
Topic Law and PolicyPrivately Protected Areas

Greening Australia: Innovator and Collaborator in Achieving Nature-based Solutions through Restoration

ILCN

This paper explores how two nature-based solutions projects came to fruition through private, government, and industry collaboration. The two featured cases explore nature-based solutions as vehicles to address climate goals, increase conservation funding opportunities, and address corporate sustainability goals.

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Resource Type Case StudiesILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Conservation FinanceLarge Landscape Conservation and Restoration

Water Funds: Conserving Green Infrastructure for Source Water Protection

ILCN

This paper explores the application of water funds as a tool for moving financing towards upstream conservation and land management projects that can result in maintenance or improvement of water quality. In particular, this paper explores two cases of water funds: one operating in Quito, Ecuador, beginning in 2000, and another which bega…

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Resource Type Case StudiesILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Conservation Finance

Restoration of the Lower Havel River in Northeast Germany

ILCN

The lower Havel River restoration project in northeast Germany demonstrates that restoring an industrialized river system can provide significant benefits, including enhanced biodiversity and habitat, augmented recreational value, natural flood protection, and increased water storage capacity in the landscape.

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Resource Type Case StudiesILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration

The Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation: Catalyzing Natural Climate Solutions for Coastal Resilience in the Gulf Coast

ILCN

This case explores the land conservation sector’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. It focuses on the establishment of the Partnership for Gulf Coast Conservation and addresses the utilization of disaster relief funding in land conservation as a green infrastructure solution.

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Resource Type Case StudiesILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Conservation FinanceOrganization and Governance

Ant Forest: Using Financial Technologies to Advance Climate Solutions in China

ILCN

This case study explores how the Chinese financial technology giant Ant Group embraced the nascent idea of green finance by developing an innovative personal carbon account called Ant Forest and linking it with a variety of afforestation and nature protection programs run by non-profit partners.

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Resource Type Case StudiesILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Conservation Finance

Addressing Critical Climate Impacts Through Landscape-Scale Partnerships: The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy’s Story of Collaboration and Innovation

ILCN

This case explores how the partnerships and networks developed among land managers at organizations around Mt. Tam have led to their collective increased impact and the proliferation of similar partnerships and networks.

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Resource Type Case StudiesILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and RestorationOrganization and Governance

Sebago Source Protection: Collaboration, Conservation & Co-Investment in a Drinking Water Supply

ILCN

This case study tells the story of a partnership between 10 stakeholder organizations that banded together to protect the Sebago watershed, the region’s drinking water, and the myriad co-benefits the forestland provides to the greater Portland area.

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Resource Type Case Studies
Topic Conservation FinanceLaw and Policy

Levitt Presents on Innovative Wind-Power Strategies at 17th Annual Symphony in the Flint Hills Signature Event

ILCN

Jim Levitt, director of the International Land Conservation Network (ILCN), spoke at the 17th annual Symphony in the Flint Hills Signature Event on June 11 in Chase County, Kansas. He shared lessons from the Site Wind Right initiative, which aimed to enable a healthy balance between conservation and sustainable development in the United S…

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Resource Type News
Topic Stewardship and Land Management

The Inaugural African Protected Areas Congress is a First Step in the Vision for an African Conservation Network

ILCN

ILCN Regional Representative for Africa, Kiragu Mwangi envisions the growth of an African private and civic land conservation network and the role the inaugural African Protected Areas Congress (APAC) will play in its trajectory.

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Resource Type News
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and RestorationOrganization and GovernanceStewardship and Land Management
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