Conservation Corridor November 2025 Newsletter
Current Digests
Connectivity & Climate Change
"Conservation mosaics" as a paradigm for the planet
A new framework reimagines biodiversity protection for a changing climate by integrating protected areas, working lands, and human communities into connected, multifunctional landscapes that sustain both nature and people.
Connectivity Management
Can human mobility data help improve landscape connectivity?
GPS data from smartphones has the potential to reveal when and where human presence actually disrupts wildlife movement, allowing managers to identify barriers and design landscapes that better sustain ecosystems.
Connectivity Policy
IUCN approves new policy for ecological corridors
At the recent World Conservation Congress, the IUCN adopted Motion 127, which calls on all of IUCN to increase efforts for standardizing recognition, reporting, and databases around ecological corridors.
Connectivity Science
Indigenous areas provide crucial ecosystem connectivity
Indigenous territories and protected areas cover over half of the Amazon basin and sustain significantly high levels of ecosystem connectivity, making them a vital part of protected area networks.
Connectivity in 30x30
Over half of global forests have become more fragmented
A new global analysis uses multiple metrics incorporating habitat connectivity and aggregation to reveal that more than half of the world's forests have become increasingly fragmented since 2000.
In the News
- Experiments with virtual fencing for cattle provide a promising way to remove barriers to wildlife movement and migration corridors (Nebraska Public Media)
- Read the recent connectivity report from the IUCN World Conservation Congress (Abu Dhabi): GLO Thematic Report on Ecological Connectivity and Land Restoration (United Nations)
- Largest intact coastal prairie habitat in Texas placed under conservation easement to protect from development and habitat fragmentation (The Nature Conservancy)
- Did your state receive money from the Wildlife Crossings Pilot Program? Search the state-by-state list (Environment America)
- Daylight savings time change raises risk of wildlife-vehicle collisions (Pew Charitable Trusts)
- A2A Collaborative identifies new infrastructure that would improve transboundary wildlife connectivity across northeastern North America (North Country Public Radio)
- UNESCO boosts its efforts to improve transnational connectivity across Central America through theTrifinio-Fraternidad Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (UNESCO)
- Private working lands are essential contributors to wildlife connectivity in Northeast California (Wildlands Network)
Previous Digests
Connectivity Science
Deep-sea life connects across oceans
Connectivity Management
GECOT: new tool to optimize connectivity under budget constraints
Connectivity & Climate Change
Hybrid zones expand plant resilience in fragmented habitats
Connectivity Policy
New guide: local planning for habitat connectivity
Connectivity in 30x30
The contribution of OECMs to achieving global biodiversity targets
