While more public funding sources have emerged recently for conservation finance, particularly around working farms, landowners with means and motivation remain a staple of the private conservation process. These landowners are largely white, and their properties most often located in rural and suburban areas. The distribution of conserved land and...

*It should be noted that with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, many conservation banks along with other conservation projects are facing uncertain futures because the pandemic has put a stress on current and future funding. For many years, conservationists, landowners, and developers have met at crossroads when handling cases of endangered...

Easements unlock value for landowners and preserve land for everyone else. With challenges to our ecosystem and economy coming faster and from more directions, conservation leaders need tools that apply more quickly or in quirkier situations. This toolkit looks over a range of techniques that extend conservation to situations where...

In May, the

The practice of raising and managing capital to support land, water, and natural resource conservation.

Network spoke to Nathalie Woolworth, conservation finance manager of the United States Forest Service about the Innovative Finance for National Forests program. This program offers $1.8 million in grants for the development and deployment of innovative financial models to support resilience of the National Forests.

Island Press’ publication of Valuing Nature: A Handbook for

Investments that combine financial returns with social and/or environmental benefits.

by William Ginn comes 15 years after his first book helped launch what became the

The practice of raising and managing capital to support land, water, and natural resource conservation.

Network. While the lessons captured in prior works still ring true, the conservation finance field has experienced rapid growth in recent years...