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 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.

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 to support local action.

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.

WWF and the Center for Large Landscape Conservation have put together a compendium of best practices and associated resources to provide guidance on safeguarding nature and building climate resilience while developing linear infrastructure projects. This report is a compilation of more than 170 papers, reports, and guidelines presenting the essential and globally accepted best practices and resources, along with a shortlist of the 10 Best Practices.

The Center for Large Landscape Conservation partnered with the Zambian Carnivore Programme to conduct a comprehensive assessment to understand exactly where and how the M9 Highway, through Kafue National Park in Zambia, is putting wildlife at risk. Through roadkill and animal count surveys, the researchers identified the priority road sections to apply mitigation measures. This report details the assessment and outlines recommendations for both short- and long-term solutions. 

The report focuses on land as a social-ecological system and its interactions with freshwater systems and terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity. It also considers the connections between these systems through the natural and social processes that create ecological connectivity. It explores the potential of enhanced ecological connectivity to promote sustainable land management and restoration, addressing global environmental crises such as desertification, land degradation and drought, biodiversity loss and climate change. The report was produced by a team led by the Center for Large Landscape Conservation and the secretariats of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the Convention on Migratory Species.

In a previous meta-analysis, mammals with large home ranges, low reproductive rates and large body sizes were found to respond most negatively to roads. This study updates and expands the classic Rytwinski & Fahrig (2012) meta-analysis, using a much larger dataset to identify which mammal traits make species most at risk from roads. The findings highlight that road impacts go beyond large mammals — smaller species with low reproductive rates and extensive home ranges can be even more vulnerable.

This report was prepared in the frame of multiple projects taking place in Turkmenistan with the participation of international experts and staff of the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan. It discusses monitoring and conservation activities carried out throughout 2023 in different areas across the country. A primary focus is on Persian leopard, their prey, and sympatric carnivores, but also includes information about strengthening the management of Koytendag State Nature Reserve as part of CLLC projects supported by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF). The report also includes general and reserve-specific recommendations – based on observations, discussions, and camera trap data – directed to the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

The first of two articles on the Asian Elephant Transport Working Group reports. This brief introduces the adverse impacts of expanding linear transportation infrastructure on ecological connectivity and wildlife movement and the tools that are available to diminish the impacts.