Resources

This report details the status of wildlife and protected area conservation in Turkmenistan and progress made in 2025. Building on earlier policy and institutional reforms, 2025 marked strengthened enforcement, expanded wildlife monitoring, enhanced transboundary cooperation, and deeper engagement with local communities.

This is a summary of the Forum Session held at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in 2025 in Abu Dhabi, where 50 participants from 20 countries discussed challenges, successes, and priorities for transboundary connectivity conservation.

The report “Integrating Wildlife Habitat Connectivity into Local Government Planning: Examples, Recommendations, and Resources for U.S. Towns and Counties,” is a practical guide for planners and partners to weave wildlife habitat connectivity into local land use decisions. It features sample policies and ordinances from across the country, case studies of successful implementation, and best practices

This guidance document published by the Global Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) recommends how governments in snow leopard range countries, civil society, and local communities can use avoidance and mitigation techniques to address the threats snow leopards and their habitat face from linear infrastructure development.

This report details monitoring and conservation activities carried out throughout 2024 in different areas across Turkmenistan, primarily focused on the Persian leopard, their prey, and sympatric carnivores, and on strengthening the management of Koytendag State Nature Reserve. It includes a set of formulated recommendations for consideration by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

U.S. Department of the Interior Publication: Applying landscape-level approaches to resource management allows the U.S. Department of the Interior and its partners to address problems they cannot resolve alone. Furthermore, this approach advances social, environmental, and economic goals shared across federal, state, and tribal governments and with non-governmental partners. This guide provides best practices, tools,

State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) are important vehicles for connectivity conservation. State wildlife agencies must complete State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) to qualify for funding from the State Wildlife Grants program, which was established in 2000 to support the conservation of at-risk species and their habitat. Since that time, SWAPs have become recognized as “conservation

The Handbook gives specific recommendations for reducing the harmful impacts of roads and railways by providing expert-informed guidance on designing larger, Asian elephant-specific crossings.

The US-191/MT-64 Wildlife & Transportation Assessment describes 11 priority sites and recommendations to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions and reconnect habitat along this gateway to Yellowstone. The goals of the Assessment are to identify areas with high levels of wildlife-vehicle collisions and those that are important to maintain wildlife movement, inform and support communities and agencies in