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Contents:

     · Information resources & maps

       · Indicators & listings

         · News & periodicals

           ⇒ Institutions

             ⇒ Global targets & scenarios

               · Educational materials

                 · Habitat fragmentation

                   · Wilderness

                     ⇒ Rewilding & restoration ecology

                       ⇒ Transborder conservation

                         ⇒ Road ecology

                           · “Three conditions”

                             · Select readings on landscape conservation

                               · Selected videos on connectivity & climate change

Also see the Global geography hub, where many links direct to continent-specific "large landscape & transboundary regions"

Information resources & maps

Circuitscape

Connectivity @ ArcGIS StoryMaps

Connectivity Challenge

Conservation Corridor

    · A key information nexus for connectivity science.

CorridorDesign

     · "GIS tools for connectivity, corridor, or habitat modeling"

Ecological connectivity @ CMS

Endangered Landscapes Programme

Free Passage: Reestablishing North America's Wildlife Corridors

Global Safety Net

Landscape Measure Resource Center (LMRC)

     · “...designed to help manage areas where interests in protecting biodiversity, producing food, and

          supporting rural livelihoods converge. The Landscape Measures approach recognizes producers

     of crops, livestock, fish, and forest resources as stewards of ecosystems and biodiversity.”

Landscape Partnership portal  

     · “...an interactive platform where landowners and professionals from any agency, organization or

       industry can share technical information, host GIS mapping products and a variety of decision-support

       tools, view and download online learning materials, find out about partnership activities and newly

       funded projects, and identify technical experts who are available to provide assistance.”

Linkage Mapper Software

Pathways for Wildlife

Protected Connected (ProtConn) indicator

Resilient & Connected Landscapes @ TNC's Conservation Gateway

indicators & listings

Catchment Based Approach (CaBA)

Ecosystem Intactness Index

Globescapes @ Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC)

IUCN’s Red List of Ecosystems (RLE)

Protected Area Representativeness and Connectedness (PARC-Connectedness)

Protected Connected (Protconn) Index

Relative Magnitude of Fragmentation

News & periodicals

Living Landscape Observer

News @ Global Landscapes Forum

RI•VISTA

Educational materials

Connectivity 101: Ecological connectivity for people and planet @ UNDP's Learning for Nature

Habitat fragmentation

BIOFRAG database

“Three conditions”

Three Global Conditions for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use

Wilderness

Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute

Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center

European Wilderness Society

National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance [US]

Wild Foundation

Wilderness Foundation Global

     · “...an international alliance of action-oriented, like-minded organizations who understand that

       wilderness areas have local meaning and global significance, with direct importance to human

       well-being and inspiration. Founding members are Wilderness Foundation Africa, Wilderness

       Foundation UK, and the WILD Foundation (USA), with the Wilderness Leadership School (KwaZulu

       Natal, South Africa) as a patron partner.

Wilderness Connect.net

     · “Wilderness.net is a website formed in 1996 through a collaborative partnership between the

        W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation's Wilderness Institute at The University of

        Montana, the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center and the Aldo Leopold

        Wilderness Research Institute. The latter two partners are the wilderness training and research

        arms of the Federal government, respectively. The program's day-to-day activities are overseen

        by a working group and steering committee with additional oversight provided by the federal

        interagency National Wilderness Steering Committee and Wilderness Policy Council. The

        website educates hundreds of thousands of visitors annually about the benefits of wilderness

        and stewardship of wilderness under the Wilderness Act.”

Wilderness Information Network Home Page [US]

Wilderness Research Center @ University of Idaho

Wilderness Specialist Group

World Wilderness Congress

Select readings on large landscape conservation

Large landscape conservation: A strategic framework for policy and action

     · 2010, Lincoln Institute for Land Policy

Sustaining large landscape conservation partnerships

     · Spillane, Audrey L., and Wilson, Ian G. 2012, Sonoran Institute.

USNPS. Scaling up: Collaborative approaches to large landscape Conservation.

Landscape-scale conservation [Wikipedia]

Future of Landscape Scale Conservation in Europe (2016)

Hands Across Borders 2016 conference

Select videos on connectivity & climate change

· How does climate change affect biodiversity?

· Can plants and animals adapt to a changing climate?

· This is the largest corridor experiment in the world

· Habitat Connectivity: Assessing Threats and IDing Conservation Actions

· Introduction to the Staying Connected Initiative

Notes

The terms “landscape scale conservation" and "large landscape conservation" are roughly synonymous. On the basis of an informal Google Scholar search, it appears that the former is the more common term.

More on connectivity can be found on biome-specific pages (e.g., forests, mountains, wetlands, coral reefs, etc).

Globescapes

There are many large land- &

seascape initiatives across the

globe, and the CLLC maintains

a databaseof more than 130 of

them at GLOBESCAPES; if you

are searching for particular

landscapes, this is the place

to start.