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How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

This paper examines the experience of collaborative partnerships in dealing with climate change. The examination draws from a recent online survey of landscape conservation partnerships, interviews with over 40 practitioners, web research, and email communications. The paper presents practices that appear to be most effective and makes re…

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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Working Paper
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration

Two Decades of Land Acquisition for Conservation

IUCN National Committee of The Netherlands

The year 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the IUCN NL Land Acquisition Fund, which provides small grants to local NGOs to acquire threatened patches of wilderness in order to protect the biodiversity they harness. Since its foundation in 2001, the Land Acquisition Fund has enabled and facilitated the acquisition of over 40,000 hectares …

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Resource Type Other
Topic Stewardship and Land Management

July 2020 ILCN Newsletter

ILCN

The July 2020 ILCN newsletter features updates on the ILCN-ELCN 2020 webinar series, new PPAs in New Zealand added to the World Database on Protected Areas, IUCN guidelines for conserving connectivity through ecological networks and corridors, conserving biodiversity in South African grasslands, tax incentives for PPAs in Spain, and Euros…

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Resource Type ILCN Newsletter
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and RestorationLaw and PolicyOrganization and GovernancePrivately Protected AreasStewardship and Land Management

Protecting endangered species in the USA requires both public and private land conservation

Scientific reports

Abstract: “Crucial to the successful conservation of endangered species is the overlap of their ranges with protected areas. We analyzed protected areas in the continental USA to assess the extent to which they covered the ranges of endangered tetrapods. We show that in 80% of ecoregions, protected areas offer equal (25%) or worse (…

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Resource Type Research Paper
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: Symbiosis- Inspiring Partnerships in Stewardship

ILCN

This session takes an in-depth look at novel and inspiring partnerships in land restoration and management, and how they may be replicated elsewhere. These include community trusts in South Africa combining rural development with biodiversity stewardship, large-scale land and biodiversity restoration efforts by citizen volunteers in New Z…

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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Organization and Governance

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: Reclaiming our Freshwater Resources

ILCN

In the age of climate change, maintaining water quality and quantity for human and wildlife populations is increasingly difficult due to many factors, including watershed fragmentation, pollution, invasive species proliferation, and water rights conflicts. To rise to these challenges, water funds and other conservation and restoration mec…

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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Stewardship and Land Management

Conservation Finance: A Framework

Conservation Finance Alliance

This white paper released by the Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) clarifies the definition and role of conservation finance to show how important its mechanisms and strategies are for addressing the underlying causes of nature loss as well as contributing to increasing sustainable funding flows to nature conservation, provides several …

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Resource Type Partner Publication
Topic Conservation Finance

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: A Global Survey of Conservation Finance

ILCN-ELCN

This global survey provides an overview of conservation finance and explores a range of different approaches from around the world. Experts from the United States, Australia, and South Africa share the regionally unique political, social, and economic opportunities and challenges they have faced. Framed by the aggregate experience of prac…

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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Conservation Finance

May 2020 ILCN Newsletter

ILCN

China issues first conservation ‘Easement Certificate’, how land conservation groups are using remote sensing in the time of COVID, a new EU Biodiversity Strategy, and more in the May 2020 ILCN Newsletter.

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Resource Type ILCN Newsletter
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and RestorationLaw and PolicyOrganization and Governance

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: Legal Tools for Private Land Conservation in the European Union

ILCN-ELCN

This webinar addresses how private land conservation is being implemented under existing EU and national legislation, across differing national legal frameworks. Panelists discuss the legal tools currently used in specific countries, as well as how new legal instruments may be applied to advance private lands conservation in the future. I…

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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Law and Policy

The New EU Biodiversity Strategy – Reason for Hope?

ILCN

Pathways forward for the European Union’s ambitious new plan for protecting 30 percent of land and sea by 2030. Disselhoff discusses the details of the strategy, the EU’s political response to it, and what it means in terms of changing legislation, funding, and implementation.

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Resource Type News
Topic Law and Policy
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