Climate Conservation -- Center for Large Landscape Conserva

UNITED STATES CONNECTIVITY PROGRAM - Connectivity conservation is the most effective strategy to conserve landscapes at a large scale, supporting climate adaptation and protecting wildlife movement in our fragmented natural world. Last year, the Center made strides in this effort by providing decisionmakers and stakeholders with the latest available science to inform connectivity policies and projects. We also continued to foster a community of collaboration by working with partners at the federal, state, regional, and county levels to advance corridors and crossings policies and provide technical assistance to leverage federal funding for crossing structure projects. See Schedule O

BUILDING CONSERVATION NETWORKS - The Center continues to hold positions on the leadership teams for the Network for Landscape Conservation (NLC), the Roundtable on the Crown of the Continent, and the United States Biosphere Network (USBN), serving as their hosts and fiscal sponsors. Through these networks, we support thousands of scientists, policy makers, and community leaders by sharing experience and expertise through the professional networks we host and the regional and international collaborations we chair. In addition, as the fiscal sponsor for NLC and USBN, the Center provides strategic counsel, infrastructure, and organizational management, supporting their members and staffs to focus on the mission of effectively engaging and empowering landscape conservation practitioners and supporters around the world.See Schedule O

INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIVITY CONSERVATION - The International Connectivity Program works collaboratively with partners across the globe in key biodiversity areas to protect landscapes from fragmentation by implementing connectivity conservation policy and practice that lead to long-term conservation outcomes. We believe that protected areas are only protected when they are connected. Through our leadership of the IUCN Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (CCSG), we are operating several international working groups of professionalssuch as the Asian Elephant Transport Working Group and the Marine Connectivity Working Groupdeveloping mechanisms to protect linkage areas that maintain ecological connectivity around the world. See Schedule O