Nature & Culture Conservation Planners International

The challenges of capacity building for wildlife conservation in a country recovering from civil war, add a whole new dimension to the work of Franklin Litondo. Learn more...

Sustainable Harvest

Co-management of fisheries and marine reserves have provided some case studies with valuable lessons for sustainable harvest as an incentive for local communities to protect watersheds. Learn more...

Linking Land Conservation & Rural Communities

Pris Weeks and Jane Packard will lead this dialogue about communities bounding the eastern and western edges of the southeastern forests of North America: Big Thicket and the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay.

Resourceful Communities

Mikki Sager will lead this dialogue about her experiences working with communities in North Carolina and beyond.

Community Conservation

At the Community Baboon Sanctuary in Belize, Robert Horwich, nurtured the seeds of a vision for conservation to be embraced by local communities, with incentives for them to care about the nature that is such an important part of their quality of life. Learn more about how this network has expanded, including communities on several continents...

Pollinator Partners

As a micro-industry providing incentives for local communities to protect diversity of plants in surrounding forests, honey production also provide ecosystem pollination services. Learn more...

RHINO

Murali Pai will share with us his experiences about the one-horned rhino project, centered on the communities surrounding Manas National Park in India. Some NGO's working in the area include Natures Foster, and Aranyak.

Welcome!

The idea for this forum emerged from a workshop titled "Protected areas and biodiversity conservation: linking with surrounding communities" at the 2008 meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We wanted to continue our dialogue beyond the constraints of the workshop, to learn more about case studies and support each other in our work.