Living With Wildlife

Wildlife doesn’t recognize human boundaries. While protected areas play a critical role as anchors of conservation, wildlife survival in fact requires larger ecosystems made up of a patchwork of lands owned and managed by governments, the private sector, and communities. We link these lands through partnerships with regional stakeholders and local communities, an approach called “large landscape conservation.”
 

Our landscape approach builds resilience into the fabric of how landscapes are managed locally. Protected areas are interwoven with community interests, creating incentives for local people to scale, replicate, and sustain conservation action.