Landscape Connectivity: A call to action

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Creating landscapes with healthy, functioning ecosystems is not only key to making progress towards the environmental targets embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals, but also to addressing multiple social and economic targets that depend partly or wholly on the benefits that ecosystems provide to people.

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Angelo Salsi’s Remarks at 2016 Rally

ILCN

Angelo Salsi, Head of the LIFE Unit at the European Commission, remarks on private land conservation at 2016 Land Trust Alliance Rally. He discusses the Birds and Habitats Directives, the success of the EU’s Natura 2000 network and its representation of both publica and private land, and announces the formation of the European Land …

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ILCN e-Newsletter, January 2017

Happy New Year and stories of efforts to designate the Niagara River North America’s first transborder Ramsar site, to conserve private land along the Rio Bita in Colombia, to advance Natura 2000 through the new European Solidarity Corps, and more

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Green Bonds and Land Conservation: A New Investment Landscape?

Green bonds are experiencing explosive growth, but are they a useful new financing tool to bridge conservation funding shortfalls or just the latest chapter in greenwashing?

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December 2016 ILCN Newsletter

A review of the ILCN Cross-Border Workshop, payments for ecosystem services schemes in Uganda, the Australian Land Conservation Alliance Conference, and US updates on how land fared in the election and the latest land trust census results.

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Technical guidelines for the design and management of participatory connectivity conservation and restoration projects at the landscape scale in Latin America

Herrera Fernández, Bernal

This document recounts the authors’ experience in participatory conservation processes that seek terrestrial biodiversity connectivity. Its documentation of this experience hopefully can contribute to the conservation and restoration of ecological connectivity in other parts of Latin America and the world. Its fundamental concepts include…

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Nature-based solutions to address global societal challenges

IUCN

This report has been prepared as part of an effort by IUCN to define its position on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and plan for future work to advance this concept and support effective implementation of NbS to enhance ecosystem services provision and address societal challenges.

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Video on the Workshop on Innovations in Conservation Finance

Las Majadas de Pirque

This video of the Workshop on Innovations in Conservation Finance was put together by workshop hosts, Las Majadas de Pirque.

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September 2016 ILCN Newsletter

ILCN

A review of the World Conservation Congress, the burgeoning Land Trust Reserve movement in China, and the ILCN’s workshop on emerging innovations in Conservation Finance. It also highlights the IUCN’s commitment to privately protected areas.

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A primer on governance for protected and conserved areas

IUCN

As understanding of governance and related policy and practices is evolving throughout the world, the IUCN shares a basic lexicon in the hope that speaking “a common language” may help to better communicate and develop concepts of increasing clarity and meaning. This guide defines conservation, protected areas, and governance and manageme…

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