Sharing Stories on the Power and Practice of Very Large-Scale Conservation

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11/10/2025
14:00 - 15:30
IUCN - The Americas - Room 2 , Onsite

Why attend

This dynamic and highly interactive session will showcase stories about the vision, strategies, successes, cutting edge solutions, best practices, innovations and wicked problems faced by some of the largest landscape and seascape conservation efforts in the world including Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y), Kavango Zambezi (KAZA), Coral Triangle, and others.

Session Description

How big is big enough to adequately address the biodiversity and climate crises? What’s working? What’s not? What’s needed? The WCPA’s Large-Scale Conservation Areas Task Force, a new, global community of practice, is tackling these questions and more. Task Force members will share stories about their work during this highly interactive session. Stories will highlight some of the largest conservation initiatives on Earth, their successes, failures, challenges, best practices, innovations and difficult problems they face. Story tellers will also preview a set of recommendations to the funding community and other global actors to help advance conservation at scale in a way that embraces Indigenous leadership and rights and helps us achieve global goals by 2030. Task Force members, who embody geographic, cultural, gender, and generational diversity will tell their stories, share their findings, engage participants and invite others to join them in their work.
Organised by
Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Region
Partners
World Commission on Protected Areas
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative logo
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
American Prairie logo
American Prairie
Coral Triangle Center logo
Coral Triangle Center
The Pew Charitable Trusts logo
The Pew Charitable Trusts

Speaker

Speaker Scott BRENNAN

Chief Operating Officer, American Prairie

Speaker Shubash LOHANI

Director, Global Conservation Initiatives, The Pew Charitable Trusts

Speaker MICHEL MASOZERA

Africa Director, Policy and Partnerships, Wildlife Conservation Society

Speaker Safira Warili Hawari DJOHANI

Executive Director, Coral Triangle Center (CTC)

Speaker Benjamin Lee

Director (Research & Advisory), Royal Commission for AlUla

Speaker Mark DAY

Head of Kazakh Steppe Programme, Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative