Landscape Conservation Cooperatives & Landscape Conservation Design

We all depend on the services provided by healthy, resilient, functioning ecosystems. Ecosystem services provide clean air and water; regulate climate and disease; support nutrient cycles and crop pollination; provide spiritual and recreation benefits; and support wildlife habitat. However, the diversity and intensity of environmental and human-induced stressors have continued to challenge the conservation community. The community is responding by establishing new partnerships, such as Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, and methods for collectively assessing the environmental condition, describing potential future scenarios, and designing sustainable landscapes in a systematic and transparent manner. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives are engaging people in implementing the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, and developing the processes, tools, and products of landscape conservation design to achieve the vision of an ecologically connected network of landscapes.