ACT Framework – Climate Change Adaptation for Conservation Targets
The ACT Framework draws on collective knowledge to translate climate change projections into a portfolio of adaptation actions.
Agency Support for Strategic Conservation
Highlights of federal, state and regional initiatives that provide funding, resources or support to assist land trusts with planning, management and public education projects.
Coastal Lands
Coastal areas are commonly defined as the interface or transition areas between land and sea, including large inland lakes. Climate change is impacting and will continue to affect coastal areas in a variety of ways. Coasts are sensitive to sea level rise, changes in the frequency and intensity of storms, increases in precipitation, and warmer ocean temperatures. In addition, rising atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) are causing the oceans to absorb more of the gas and become more acidic. These changes are already impacting coastal and marine ecosystems.
Conservation of Piping Plovers at Napatree Point: A Case Study in Collaboration, Science, and Education
One of the first activities initiated by the Watch Hill Conservancy (WHC) when it was established was to create a partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service to collaboratively work to protect the piping plovers on Napatree. Plovers are the emblematic logo of the WHC. WHC personnel assist FWS scientists in a number of ways: they help erect fencing to keep the public away from plover nesting and feeding sites, observe plovers for nest building behavior, monitor nests, and remove fencing at the end of the season.
Ecological Corridors Protect Wildlife Movement and Water Quality in Michigan
Regionally planned ecological corridors are being implemented in Michigan to protect wildlife and water quality.
Funding Conservation with Carbon Sequestration – Downeast Lakes Land Trust
Downeast Lakes Land Trust’s carbon project covers more than 19,000 acres of the trust’s 33,700 Farm Cove Community Forest in eastern Maine, and registered nearly 200,000 offsets; each offset is equivalent to one ton of carbon dioxide.
How is the Land Trust Community Adapting to Address Climate Change Impacts?
Numerous land trusts have already incorporated elements of climate adaptation planning into their management strategies. In general, a climate change adaptation plan identifies and assesses impacts that are likely to affect the planning area, develops goals and actions to best minimize these impacts, and establishes a process to implement those actions. Climate change adaptation actions can often fulfill other management goals, such as sustainable development and risk reduction, and can therefore be incorporated into existing decision-making processes.
Incorporating Climate Resiliency into Conservation Efforts at an Eight-Town Regional Scale
This OSI fact sheet highlights how a regional conservation partnership is incorporating climate resiliency into conservation efforts at a regional scale.
Integrating Climate Adaptation into Land Conservation: A Climate-Smart Framework for Land Trusts
Point Blue’s climate-smart publication, Integrating Climate Adaptation into Land Conservation – A Climate-Smart Framework for Land Trusts, aims to provide land trusts and other land conservation practitioners with a guide to integrating climate change projections and climate adaptation approaches into the process of private land conservation.
Joint Ventures
Using a cooperative, science-based business model, Joint Venture partnerships tackle the most pressing issues facing wildlife managers and conservationists today, including immediate and future threats from global climate change. Joint Ventures partner within existing bird conservation initiatives and state wildlife action plans, to achieve efficiency, coordination and results.
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