Carolina Butrich – Manager, Conservamos por Naturaleza Peru is a country of incredible megadiversity and home to an extraordinary range of natural habitats, ranging from the majestic Andes to the vast Amazon rainforest. At 1.2 million square kilometers, Peru is Latin America’s fourth largest country, and more than 60 percent of its area is rainforest. […]
Tag: Organization and Governance
Mega Living Landscapes Emerge as a Model for More Inclusive, Sustainable Conservation in South Africa
Anele Kumalo & Natasha Wilson South African National Parks (SANParks) is the largest statutory conservation agency in South Africa. Currently, SANParks manages 4.2 million hectares of land, comprised of 22 national parks and four marine protected areas (MPAs). Its mandates for managing these protected areas are set out in the National Environmental Management: Protected Areas […]
Kawartha Land Trust Pioneers a New Type of Conservation Partnership in Ontario
On October 10, 2024, the Kawartha Land Trust (KLT) and its partners launched the Kawartha Resilient Lands Collaborative at a well-attended kickoff event in Peterborough, Ontario. The new Regional Conservation and Climate Partnership (RCCP) looks to bridge sectoral divides among people and organizations working in land, water, climate, and conservation. While inspired by the RCCP […]
How Relationships Catalyzed Conservation Innovation in Australia: Reflections and a Report on Australian Participation at the 2024 ILCN Global Congress
By Cecilia Riebl In October 2024, 260 conservationists from 26 countries convened in Beaupré, Canada, at the 2024 ILCN Global Congress to share knowledge and develop solutions around the Congress theme, “relationships for a resilient world.” Among these participants were 14 Australian land conservation practitioners for whom the event spurred learning and reflection on the […]
The Conservancies Model: How France has Mobilized over 8,000 Volunteers as a Voice for Nature
In the 1970s in France, as across much of the world, environmental concerns were rising. The first half of the 20th century was marked with startling declines in wild mammal populations across Europe that corresponded with loose hunting laws and significant habitat loss. Individuals, organizations, and government agencies across France were responding, working to conserve ecosystems […]
A Latin American Network for Private and Civic Land Conservation Continues to Take Shape
By Hernan Mladinic and Lily Robinson Seventeen speakers and participants from Latin American nations joined a gathering of 260 conservation leaders from around the world at the fourth International Land Conservation Network (ILCN) Global Congress in Beaupré, Canada, last month. The event marked just over four years since ILCN Regional Representative for Latin America Hernan […]
Stories of Hope Emerge at Siwu Nature Park’s Protecting Biodiversity Conference
Shenmin Liu – ILCN Regional Representative for Asia At the beginning of the 21st century, the scientific community pitched the idea of the Anthropocene epoch. Their argument: that human impact on Earth has become so great that its biophysical changes warrant a formal tip-of-the-hat to the 11,700-year-long Holocene epoch, and the acknowledgement of a new […]
Fundación Tierra Austral: The Chilean Land Trust Behind a Historic Civil Law Innovation
Lily Robinson – Program Coordinator, ILCN Javiera Yáñez – Director of Development and Communications, Tierra Austral In late 2021, a group of conservationists stepped out of a car in Chile’s Cerro Poqui Nature Sanctuary in the O’Higgins Region of Central Chile, less than two hours south of Santiago. They gazed out over the mountain range […]
Empowering Communities: The Rise of ReGeCom in Mozambique’s Conservation Landscape
Kiragu Mwangi – ILCN Regional Representative for Africa José Monteiro — Executive Director, ReGeCom In February 2018, a cross-sector group of leaders gathered in Maputo, Mozambique. They had come together around mounting concerns that communities were being left out of land conservation at both the decision-making and implementation level. There, at the 5th Conference on […]
Conservation in Action: The V National Meeting of Private Natural Reserves in Argentina
Hernán Mladinic – Regional Representative for Latin America From November 23 – 25, 2023, the V National Meeting of Private Natural Reserves convened in Tigre Argentina, just an hour from the bustling city of Buenos Aires. Organized by the Argentine Network of Private Natural Reserves (Argentine Network), the event brought together a diverse group dedicated […]