Private land conservation
Conserving species and ecosystems on private land is increasingly recognised as important not only for its ecological benefits, but also for economic and social reasons. The key to private land conservation is motivating and enabling private landholders to get involved in conservation activities, and keeping them involved over time, in ways that benefit nature. Our research takes an interdisciplinary approach to understand the interactions between the ecological, social and economic factors that deliver conservation on private land.
Resources:
- Landholders’ participation in biodiverse carbon plantings factsheet
- Selinske M., Hardy M., Gordon A., Knight A. (2017) Policy brief for Privately Protected Areas Futures 2017: Supporting the long-term stewardship of privately protected areas. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/znsdq. Available at https://osf.io/znsdq. 3 pages.
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