Resilience

To tap the tremendous potential of the land to address societal challenges, and build on its successes in increasing the pace, quality and permanence of land conservation in America, the Land Trust Alliance has set four strategic conservation goals for 2018-2022, one of which is to defend the land trust community from threats that endanger specific conserved lands and the viability of the entire community.

For the Alliance, leading a resilient sector involves a robust conservation defense program, opposing the behavior of bad actors in the sector and developing innovative approaches to emerging conservation threats.

The Alliance and our partners will be successful if we can:

• Increase the number of land trusts (as well as parcels and acres) eligible to enroll in Terrafirma.
• Decrease the rate of land trust failures and increase, where warranted, the number of land trust mergers, consolidations and shared services agreements.
• Achieve 100% success rate in conservation defense cases (i.e., permanence of conservation is achieved).
• Increase the capacity of land trusts to address emerging threats to the landscape, such as energy infrastructure siting, climate change impacts and conventional sprawl.

To learn more about these conservation goals and our strategic approach to accomplish them, please read our strategic plan.