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Header photo: Mekong landscape in Cambodia © NTFP-EP cambodia Socheat Kuoy
Healthy ecosystems serve all kinds of stakeholders. “For instance, water provisioning and fertile soil for food production are of paramount importance to local communities, while ecosystem services like CO2 sequestration are valued at the global level,” says Lucia Helsloot, Program Manager at WWF Netherlands. “A core challenge is to identify ways to balance the interests of (and within) local communities with local and national economies, and the global environment.”
Businesses, government bodies and residents each have a stake in a landscape. “While from a long-term perspective most stakeholders involved in a landscape need healthy and well-managed ecosystems that deliver fresh water, food security, and climate resilience, the short-term interests in the landscape often conflict,” says Sander van Andel, senior expert Nature Conservation and program manager at IUCN NL.
To keep ecosystems healthy, we need to strike a balance between economic, environmental and social values. In a strategic partnership with the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, IUCN NL and WWF Netherlands, therefore support their partners to collaborate and bring various stakeholders together in 26 landscapes in Asia, Africa and Latin America to take joint responsibility over sustainable, social and economic development. This way we aim to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.
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