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ILCN ELCN Earth Day Online Plenary

On the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, the ILCN/ELCN Earth Day Plenary highlights the importance of leadership at all levels of society – from national, subnational, and local government to civic and grassroots initiatives – to protect natural and cultural resources for the benefit of present and future generations.  
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration Law and Policy Organization and Governance Privately Protected Areas

Private landowners, voluntary conservation programs, and implementation of conservation friendly land management practices

Conservation Letters; A journal of the Society for Conservation Biology

Private land conservation mechanisms are critical components employed by policy makers and conservation professionals to support the stewardship and protection of vital ecosystem services. This study explored perceptions of landowners with property enrolled in the Indiana Classified Forest and Wildlands Program in U.S.A.
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Resource Type Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

LIFE and Land Stewardship; Current Status, Challenges and Opportunities

Report to the European Commission

This report focuses on the LIFE program and its contribution to establishing land stewardship approaches in the EU. The main purpose of this study was to assess the contribution of the LIFE program in engaging private stakeholders in nature conservation and to explore further opportunities to do so in future LIFE projects.
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Resource Type Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

Reviving Europe’s Biodiversity By Importing Exotic Animals

Yale Environment 360

Scientists are conducting intriguing — and counterintuitive — experiments at several sites in Germany: Bringing back long-lost herbivores, such as water buffalo, to encourage the spread of native plants that have fared poorly in Europe’s human-dominated landscape.
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Resource Type Other
Topic Stewardship and Land Management

An Introduction to Conservation Easements in the United States: A Simple Concept and a Complicated Mosaic of Law

Social Science Research Network

This publication provides a context for the development and implementation of conservation easements in the United States, as well as an overview of relevant legal and policy issues.
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Resource Type Guide/Best Practices / Research Paper
Topic Law and Policy

Uniform Conservation Easement Act

Uniform Law Commission

Copy of the Uniform Conservation Easement Act as approved by the National Conference in 1981.
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Resource Type Other
Topic Law and Policy

Conserving Land Privately: Spontaneous Markets for Land Conservation in Chile

Land Trust Alliance

This article discusses how the free market may provide unexpected help for land conservation, and details the spontaneous market phenomenon of private landowners buying land for conservation purposes in Chile.
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Resource Type Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Law and Policy / Privately Protected Areas

Wildlands and Woodlands Report

Harvard Forest

This report from the Harvard Forest, Harvard University urges the people and Commonwealth of Massachusetts to launch a bold, comprehensive initiative to conserve Wildlands and Woodlands in New England, and the ecological and social values they possess.
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Resource Type Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Green Infrastructure / Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

Company Reserves; Integrating Biological Reserves Owned and Managed by Commercial Companies into the Global Protected Areas Network- A Review of Options

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

This paper looks at the options for developing company protected areas, current initiatives and implications and gives recommendations for future developments.
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Resource Type Guide/Best Practices / Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

Conserving the Stage: Climate Change and the Geophysical Underpinnings of Species Diversity

PLOS One

This study tested how well geology predicts the species diversity of 14 US states and 3 Canadian provinces, using a comprehensive new spatial dataset. The results of this study suggest that protecting geophysical settings will conserve the stage for current and future biodiversity and may be a robust alternative to species-level predictio...
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Resource Type Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Other

The Private Lands Conservation Initiative in Chile (a chapter within Conservation Capital in the Americas, ed. James Levitt)

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

The Chilean Private Lands Conservation Initiative is the product of a unique, synergistic, and well-timed collaboration. The Private Lands Initiative stands close to success: passing legislation to provide critical public and private incentives necessary to unleash the enormous potential of private lands conservation in Chile.
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas