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The 2nd iteration of the Pathfinder Award celebrates innovation in protected and conserved area management related to health, technology use, adaptation and land management. Submit your nomination – including a PANORAMA solution case study  now!

Effective implementation of the emerging Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will be key –and global partnerships like PANORAMA can make an important contribution. In a virtual CBD side event held on 23 June 2021, PANORAMA partners and supporters highlighted how the initiative can contribute to capacity development and knowledge management under  the GBF. An official CBD information document provides more detail to CBD parties and other stakeholders. 

PANORAMA is expanding! The new Thematic Community on Forest Landscape Restoration coordinated by IUCN and GIZ, collects approaches for sustainable and inclusive forest landscape restoration and promotes active exchange between practitioners. Contribute your FLR solution now !

 PANORAMA partners organized an online write-shop oriented to solution providers in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to all Spanish-speaking colleagues based in other regions.

The key to a successful launch of FLR process lied in the dynamic nature of  multi-sectoral national FLR committee, which also involves various actors from different sectors and backgrounds; this helps to ensure a holistic land-use planning considering the interest of each group of actors through the targeted ecosystem services approach of future restoration actions. 

Take a look at EcoAct Tanzania Green life solution which uses chemical-free and energy-conserving plastic extrusion technology called "Waxy ıı Technology" to recycle and transform post-consumer plastics, packaging materials, and agricultural waste into durable and environmentally friendly plastic lumbers and many more.

On May 26th, the World Heritage Leadership programme hosted the first online Nature-Culture Reviewers’ Workshop. Heritage professionals from the natural and cultural heritage fields were invited on the basis of their engagement with the PANORAMA Nature-Culture Thematic Community as solution providers and as collaborators of other activities focused on nature-culture integration organized by the Thematic Community coordinators, ICCROM, IUCN and ICOMOS.

This toolkit provides guidance for the design and facili­tation of  workshops for matchmaking, exchange and solution uptake in the context of PANORAMA. It provides examples and insights from our prac­tice. At the same time, most of the guidance and tools offered in this e-book can be applied to other virtual and on-site workshop formats.  
Scroll through the 'Facilitation Toolkit on Engaging Practitioners and Fostering Interactive Dialogues'

This webinar focused on the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park PANORAMA solution. It presented a set of tools to identify, compare and balance different visions, preferences, and tensions for protected areas management and power relations between stakeholders in order to move towards better social engagement in conservation governance. You can view the recording if you’d like to learn more

Discover "Pilots for the restoration of mangrove ecosystems in Ciénaga de la Virgen" a solution from the EbA program in Colombia working together with the Mayor's office, the Botanical Gardens, local NGO's and communities in the implementation of pilot projects for the restoration of mangroves in particularly vulnerable areas of the coastal lake of Ciénaga de la Virgen. 

On the 16th of June, Rare and IFOAM-OI launched the report Farming for Biodiversity – feeding local solutions into global policy. The report builds on the lessons-learned from over 338 local solutions to agriculture & biodiversity related challenges that were unearthed as part of Rare’s, so called, Solution Search contest.

Our thematic community demonstrates the important role that civil society has in influencing business practices to safeguard biodiversity and the many creative ways in doing so. NGO A Rocha Ghana helped develop a shea value chain with a community and a business to fund conservation projects in the landscape. Other PANORAMA solutions are highlighted in the IUCN Top business engagement tips for conservation organisations released in three languages. A webinar on 10 December has focused on creating multi-stakeholder partnerships with business and highlighted two Solutions.

"The role of healthy oceans for coastal communities has been at the focus of my work since I did my MSc field studies in a Sri Lankan fishing village"

-  Marine ecologist from the University of Bremen, and the Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology.



Engaged in ecosystems’ and human populations’ resilience to global environmental changes, sustainable land management, ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction, and communities’ engagement in natural resources management, Bora has been instrumental in developing tools to improve ecosystems’ resilience to climate change and in turning them into national policies.

-    Environment and biodiversity conservation specialist, Senior Programme Officer, Drylands IUCN Nairobi- Kenya