International
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
· World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
· Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (CCSG)
· Key international working group on connectivity.
· CCSG's work is mostly posted at the Conservation Corridor website.
· Large Scale Conservation Areas Task Force (LSCATF)
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
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 Climate Change Vulnerability Project
Montana Institute on Ecosystems
U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network
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]
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]
Foundations