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Contents below:
· Information resources & maps
· Listings & indicators
· News & periodicals
· Educational materials
· Institutions
~ Coalitions, networks & partnerships
~ Science & research institutions
~ NGOs
· Select readings on landscape conservation
· Selected videos on connectivity & climate change
Subpages:
· Rewilding & restoration ecology
· Global targets, including 30x30, Half-Earth & Nature Needs Half
· Large landscape & seascape conservation initiatives
Also see:
Information resources & maps
Connectivity @ ArcGIS StoryMaps
· A key information nexus for connectivity science.
· "GIS tools for connectivity, corridor, or habitat modeling"
Endangered Landscapes Programme
Free Passage: Reestablishing North America's Wildlife Corridors
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.”
· “...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.”
Protected Connected (ProtConn) indicator
Resilient & Connected Landscapes @ TNC's Conservation Gateway
Listings & indicators
Catchment Based Approach (CaBA)
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
News @ Global Landscapes Forum
Educational materials
Connectivity 101: Ecological connectivity for people and planet @ UNDP's Learning for Nature
Institutions
~ 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
Global Partnership on Ecological Connectivity (GPEC)
· Partnership design document @ CMS [pdf]
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.”
~ Science & research ~
Cambridge Conservation Initiative
Endangered Landscapes Programme
Center for Landscape Conservation Planning @ University of Florida
· “ ...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.”
International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE)
Landscape Biodiversity Lab @ Montana State University
U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network
~ NGOs ~
Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC)
Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (CCSG)
· Key international working group on connectivity.
· CCSG's work is mostly posted at the Conservation Corridor website.
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 @ NAASF & USDA-Northeastern Area
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]
Habitat fragmentation
“Three conditions”
Three Global Conditions for Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use
Wilderness
Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center
National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance [US]
· “...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.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
Man and the Biosphere
International Centre for Sustainable Rural Communities (ICSRC)
Man and the Biosphere @ USNPS History eLibrary
Man and the Biopshere (MAB) Programme
World Network of Biosphere Reserves
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
Landscape conservation, connectivity & corridors
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).