Category: Initiative

The ALPINE Summer Institute program is designed for students and young professionals to learn more about the theory and practice of large land conservation in the early twenty-first century. The program also offers participants the opportunity to meet and network with peers and leaders in the field.

The Conservation Economics initiative helps to communicate the economic value of land conservation and refute claims of negative impacts, to facilitate new funding streams for land conservation. This initiative aims to grow the pool of available funding for land conservation by obtaining the support of non-traditional conservation partners.

The WWF&C Conservation Finance team works through the Conservation Finance Network to connect with a growing community of conservation finance practitioners in the United States and around the world, sharing innovative finance mechanisms for funding land protection and applying them in ways that will conserve more land, more effectively.

The New England Conservation Finance Roundtables bring together regional and national thinkers representing NGOs, foundations, investment advisors, state and federal agencies, universities, and landowners to explore new strategies to confront a troubling upward trend in forest and farmland conversion to development coupled with slowing rates of land protection.

A report including a collection of data on public conservation funding at the federal, state, and local levels for all New England states. It is a reference for conservationists working in New England and a foundation for conversations about current and future avenues for increased conservation funding in the region.

The annual RCP Network Gathering is a keystone event for the RCP Network and conservationists throughout the region. Initially a one-day conference, the Gathering has made a successful transition to an online webinar, with hopes to return to a hybrid or in-person event. The RCP Network Gathering provides a dedicated opportunity for people working on collaborative landscape conservation across the region to benefit from the insights of their peers and from technical training workshops and expert panels.