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Media Release: Wilderness Foundation Africa and WWF South Africa launch South Africa's first dedicated Sustainable Landscape Finance Coalition

This Media Release announces the launch of South Africa's first Sustainable Landscape Finance Coalition.

Resource Type Partner Publication
Topic Finance

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas

Globalizing Conservation Easements: Private Law Approaches for International Environmental Protection

Wisconsin International Law Journal

This article will provide a framework of the major policy and legal issues that could, and in the author's view should, inform a country’s decision to adopt private conservation restrictions.

Resource Type Guide/Best Practices / Partner Publication / Research Paper
Topic Finance / Law and Policy