Public participation in corridors and connectivity

Habitat loss and fragmentation are key threats that drive biodiversity loss. Large landscape connectivity enables species movements and gene flow among protected and conserved areas and supports migrations, all key to healthy and resilient landscapes. Local participation in these efforts have ensured community engagement and sustainable socioeconomic benefits. Increasingly, conservation projects are looking to keep natural areas connected or to re-connect them but there are many challenges in doing so.

The Amazon Sustainable Landscapes Program (ASL) together with the Global Wildlife Program (GWP) are delivering a series of knowledge exchange events to support national projects in their planning and implementation activities related to ecological corridors and connectivity.

This webinar will share tools and best practices that can ensure public participation in corridor planning, implementation and/or monitoring.

Themes

Public participation in connectivity conservation: overview

Diego Juffe Bignoli

Biodiversity Decisions and IUCN Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (IUCN CCSG)

Annika Keeley

Center for Large Landscape Conservation and IUCN Connectivity Conservation Specialist Group (IUCN CCSG)

Public participation in connectivity conservation projects: approaches and tools

Jessica Thorn

Lecturer in sustainable development at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews

Public participation in monitoring: case study - jaguars in Colombia