Ecosystem & area-based conservation (ABC) hub >
Contents:
· International organizations & initiatives
· Foundations
· Professional associations
· Science & research institutions
· Coalitions, networks & partnerships
· NGOs
International organizations & initiatives
Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management Programme (BIOPAMA)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
Specialist Groups
Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (CCSG)
· Key international working group on connectivity.
· CCSG's work is mostly posted at the Conservation Corridor website.
Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas
Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs)
Privately Protected Areas & Nature Stewardship
Task Forces
Harmonizing Classifications and Nomenclature Task Force
Large Scale Conservation Area Task Force (LSCATF)
International Ranger Award Nomination Platform
World Protected Areas Leaders Forum (WPALF)
· “Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) are the most important places in the world for species and their
habitats. Faced with a global environmental crisis we need to focus our collective efforts on
conserving the places that matter most. The KBA Programme supports the identification, mapping,
monitoring and conservation of KBAs to help safeguard the most critical sites for nature on our
planet – from rainforests to reefs, mountains to marshes, deserts to grasslands and to the deepest
parts of the oceans.”
UNESCO
Man & the Biosphere (MAB)
International Journal of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
Man and the Biosphere @ USNPS History eLibrary
Man and the Biopshere (MAB) Programme (UNESCO)
World Network of Biosphere Reserves
Man and the Biosphere Programme @ Wikipedia
World Heritage Convention & Centre
· “UNESCO seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural
and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity."
World Heritage Convention @ Wikipedia
Foundations
Professional associations
International Ranger Federation (IRF)
Science & research institutions
Berkeley Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity
Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Endangered Landscapes Programme
Center for Landscape Conservation Planning @ University of Florida
Center for Protected Area Management (CPAM) @ CSU
International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE)
Landscape Climate Change Vulnerability Project
Montana Institute on Ecosystems
U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network
Coalitions, networks & partnerships ~
Coalition for Wildlife Corridors [India]
Community Development and Knowledge Management for the Satoyama Initiative (COMDEKS)
Connectivity Policy Coalition (CPC) [USA]
· Hosted by Wildlands Network
· “ ...the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving
the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. The Forum takes a holistic
approach to create sustainable landscapes that are productive, prosperous, equitable and
resilient and considers five cohesive themes of food and livelihoods, landscape restoration,
rights, finance and measuring progress. It is led by the Center for International Forestry Research
(CIFOR), in collaboration with its co-founders UNEP and the World Bank and Charter Members.”
· "We are now the world’s largest science-led platform on sustainable land use. To date, we have
connected 3,000 organizations and 25,000 people through our gatherings in Warsaw, Lima,
London, Paris, Marrakech and Jakarta - with 32 million others online.”
Global Partnership on Ecological Connectivity (GPEC)
· a multistakeholder network of organizations, institutions and initiatives that facilitates, promotes and
implements collective coherent action to maintain, enhance and restore ecological connectivity for the
benefit of nature and people across the globe.”
Network for Landscape Conservation
· “...a joint initiative between WWF, CLLC, CCSG, and CMS that aims to maintain or increase
ecological connectivity of landscapes, ensuring viable wildlife populations, ecosystem
services, resilience to climate change, and human well-being.”
NGOs
Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC)
Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
· "...A non-profit established in 1998, The Cultural Landscape Foundation® (TCLF) connects people
to places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more
visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.”
Futurescapes [UK]
· "...the only nature conservation group who's sole mission is the direct funding of park
protection systems for saving our most important and endangered world heritage and
national parks in developing countries."
Institute for Regional Conservation
Landscape Conservation Cooperative Network [USA, with North American links]
· “Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) were established to provide science capacity
and technical expertise for meeting shared natural and cultural resource priorities. Today, the
network of 22 LCCs are changing how we think about, plan, and act upon collaborative
conservation issues in a way that goes beyond boundaries to help the places we love and the
natural and cultural resources our communities depend on thrive for generations to come."
· “To provide observations and information on the emerging fields of landscape scale conservation,
heritage preservation, and sustainable community development."
· "...an international coalition of scientists, conservationists, nonprofits, and public officials
defending nature at the scale she needs to continue to function for the benefit of all life."
Network for Landscape Conservation
Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
· Flourishing Landscapes program
· "...a regional vision that unites and inspires people across New England working to conserve
New England’s natural heritage and to craft a sustainable future.”
· Originally The Wildlands Project (TWP), this was the modern environmental era's first "large
landscape conservation" initiative.
Wildlife Trusts [UK]