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From the Ground Up: How Land Trusts and Conservancies are Providing Solutions to Climate Change

This Policy Focus Report presents a dozen case studies that demonstrate how land trusts, conservancies, and other nongovernmental civic organizations have meaningfully addressed climate change over the past several decades. These organizations are working to protect land, biodiversity, and historic resources in more than 100 countries on ...
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Green Infrastructure Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration Privately Protected Areas Stewardship and Land Management

ILCN at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference of Parties (COP15) in December 2022

International Land Conservation Network

The event will highlight key issues related to land conservation and resources for battling climate change.
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Resource Type News
Topic Law and Policy / Organization and Governance

In Germany, a child’s dream of restoring the Havel River to its natural state is realized by generations of collaborative conservation

International Land Conservation Network

This story narrates the exemplary research and writing of Eva Vayhinger, who created Lincoln Institute’s case study, Restoration of the Lower Havel River in Northeast Germany
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Resource Type Case Studies / News
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

The Sustainable Finance Coalition’s first conservation finance bootcamp showcased the power of collaboration and shared language

Wildlife Foundation Africa

The daylong intensive built bridges between the business, finance, and green sectors.
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Resource Type News
Topic Finance / Organization and Governance

The State of Sonora joins Chile as one of two Latin American regions to adopt Derecho Real de Conservación

International Land Conservation Network

The innovative conservation mechanism resembles an easement and creates paths to voluntary and flexible private land protection.
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Resource Type News
Topic Law and Policy / Policy / Privately Protected Areas

Students of the Global Landscape Stewards’ Peer Learning Exchange built human and natural connections on a tour of Australia

International Land Conservation Network

The exchange brought together an international group to travel, learn, and join forces. 
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Resource Type News
Topic Organization and Governance

In Australia, Bush Heritage and Traditional Owners are leading the way by integrating Indigenous stewardship practices

International Land Conservation Network

For over thirty years, Bush Heritage and Traditional Owners have been collaborating to intentionally manage Australian landscapes. 
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Resource Type News
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

Participants at the inaugural Africa Protected Areas Congress made a commitment to furthering the continent’s conservation movement

International Land Conservation Network

The weeklong congress brought together over 7,000 virtual and in-person participants to lay the foundation for an African land-conservation network. 
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Resource Type News
Topic Governance / Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

The ILCN engaged land practitioners from across the globe in discussions about conservation and climate change at the 2022 Land Trust Alliance Rally

International Land Conservation Network

The ILCN team joined about 1,500 land conservation leaders at the 2022 Land Trust Alliance Rally in New Orleans, September 15-17. 
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Resource Type News
Topic Other

Land conservation in Ecuador is stymied by an incomplete view of privately protected areas

International Land Conservation Network

Ecuador's biodiversity is unmatched, as the country hosts the greatest array of flora and fauna of any other nation, relative to its size. But the region's natural resources are rapidly degrading as industry and development infringe further on its landscape. Conservation work has yet been unable to match the urgency of the moment, du...
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Resource Type Country Profile / News
Topic Governance / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Policy / Privately Protected Areas

Nuñez Oporto Shares Lessons and Inspiration from the 2022 Conservation Finance Boot Camp

The Conservation Finance Network

Mauricio Nuñez Oporto, Director of Colectivos de Accion Local para la Regeneracion in Peru, reflects on his experience as part of the 2022 cohort of the Conservation Finance Boot Camp hosted by the Conservation Finance Network. 
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Resource Type News
Topic Finance