Introduction to the

INTERNATIONAL LAND CONSERVATION NETWORK

World Bank Land & Poverty ConferenceWashington, DC, March 2015

Private and civic land conservation organizations, large and small, are

present on six continents

Representatives from six continents met at the Lincoln Institute in

Cambridge, MA…

From left to right, back to front: Hernan [xxx[, Philip Tabas, Montse Maso, Alejandro Quintana, Sristi Kamal, Stefan Nagel, Robert McIntosh, Anton Gazenbeck, Marcelo Ringeling, Judith Labelle, Jim Levitt, Javier Beltran, Lisa McLaughlin, Natasha Wilson, Pancho Solis, Tillmann Disselhoff, Gabriela Franco, Sarah Mitchell, Elisa Corcuera, Laura Johnson, Sylvia Bates, Alicia Leuba, Brent Mitchell, Henry Tepper, Peter Stein, Emily Schweitzer, Geoff Wescott, Isabella Gambill, Victoria Marles, Celia Mahung, Victoria Alonso

… met in September 2014 to consider the origins of land conservation for

the public benefit ...

Elisa Corcuera, Chile

Jim Levitt, USA (co-organizer)

… and how the civic and private sectors might advance that cause in the 21st century.

Lago Espolon, near Futaleufu, Patagonia, Chile

We resolved to organize ourselves into

an International Land Conservation Network at a meeting preceding the

2014 Land Trust Rally

Who we are

• A group of professional and volunteer land conservationists from places as diverse as South Africa, Germany, India, Canada, Chile, Australia, Belize and the United States

• Women and men of diverse heritages, with a common mission

Our Mission

• “To connect organizations and people around the world that are accelerating voluntary private and civic sector action that protects and stewards land and water resources. We believe that building capacity and empowering voluntary private and civic land conservation will strengthen the global land conservation movement and lead to more durable and effective resource protection. We do this for the intrinsic value of the world’s natural and cultural resources, and for their importance to the prosperity and wellbeing of humankind, today and for generations to come.”

What the ILCN Will Do

• Build the capacity of civic and private land conservation efforts by sharing advanced financial tools, appropriate legal frameworks, cross-sectoral organizational strategies, and efficient workflows – governments simply cannot do the job alone

• Establish a baseline census of organizations and the land they are protecting, and promote exchanges among them

• Catalyze conservation activity on the ground that is replicable across the globe.

Progress to Date

• Start up grant, enabling implementation of initial organizational strategy

• Expanding numbers of nations represented

• Invitations to present at the World Bank, European Commission

• Plans underway for 2015 Congress in Europe

A global community: we invite your participation