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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 May 2020 Newsletter

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 Restoration / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance

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

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.
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Law and Policy / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

The New EU Biodiversity Strategy – Reason for Hope?

Pathways forward for the European Union's ambitious new plan for protecting 30% of land and sea by 2030. 
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Resource Type News
Topic Law and Policy

Necessity Sparks Invention

How COVID is Catalyzing New Approaches to Conservation Monitoring and Technology Adoption
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Resource Type News
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Stewardship and Land Management

China Issues First Conservation ‘Easement Certificate’ in Baishanzu National Park

Improving conservation effectiveness through unified stewardship of natural resources across China’s diverse ecosystems and land ownership types.
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Resource Type News
Topic Law and Policy / Stewardship and Land Management

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: Connecting Universities with Land Conservation Organisations

This webinar focuses on efforts underway to understand and foster university/land conservation organisation partnerships. The discussion includes questions such as: What are barriers to and facilitators of such partnerships? What makes a good partnership? When are university researchers best able to answer or address questions for land co...
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: Utter Opposites? Conservation in a Commercial Farming Context

In this webinar, panelists present different approaches, from three corners of the world, of how and why farmers are succeeding in combining biodiversity protection with well-run, modern and economically sustainable farms.
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Stewardship and Land Management

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: Using EU LIFE Funding for Private Land Conservation

This webinar provides a programme manager’s perspective on LIFE funding opportunities for private and civic land conservation projects. Organisations that have developed projects and received EU LIFE funding share experiences and insights from the conservation practitioner and LIFE project manager perspective.
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Finance / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: Peer Learning and Collaborative Leadership in Large Landscapes

Over the past two years, the International Land Conservation Network has convened the first cohort of the Large Landscape Peer Learning Initiative (LLPLI) to share insights and strategies regarding finance, governance, law and policy, and stewardship. These exchanges and in-depth strategic collaborations between large landscape conservati...
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration

ILCN/ELCN Webinar: Conservation Tools and Strategies in Common Law Jurisdictions

Organisations and conservation practitioners in common law jurisdictions discuss the core agreements used in their country, including conservation covenants in Australia and New Zealand and conservation easements in the United States.
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Finance / Law and Policy