Story from Amanda Karst, Cary Hamel, Emily Gonzales, Heather Barna, Mary Huffman, and Stuart Cowell What is Healthy Country Planning? How is it different to Open Standards or Conservation Action Planning? Isn’t it just participatory planning? And where the heck is Winnipeg? These were some of the pressing questions participants at the recent Healthy Country Planning…
Story from Frank Weisenberger, Frank Weisenberger Consulting, and David Hinchley, The Nature Conservancy Environmental impact assessments typically focus on the impact of developments on environmental values, specifically biodiversity. Often, they do not adequately consider social and cultural impacts. A recent…
Registrations are open for a five-day Open Standards / Healthy Country Planning workshop focusing on the biodiversity hotspot of the Tasmanian Midlands. Using a well-proven adult learning approach, this intensive live-in course will give you a good understanding of how…
Story by Frank Weisenberger, Frank Weisenberger Consulting In November of 2018, the indigenous Karen people of Myanmar commenced their Healthy Country Planning process to develop a strategic conservation management plan for the Dawna Tanintharyi landscape in eastern Myanmar. The plan will…
Registrations are open for a 3-day intensive Healthy Country Planning Training course in conjunction with the Conservation Coaches Network Rally 2018 in Katoomba / NSW, Australia. We use in the course the well proven interactive adult learning approach developed by…
An exciting initiative to develop a Healthy Country Plan to protect threatened caribou in the MacKenzie Mountains—a biodiverse region on the border of the Northwest Territories and Yukon provinces in sub-arctic Canada—gained momentum this past summer. Over 40 community representatives…
CCNet Australia will be offering a Healthy Country Planning training in Katoomba, in the surroundings near the Fairmont Resort prior to the Global CCNet Rally from April 27-29, 2018. Healthy Country Planning (HCP) is an adaptation of the Open Standards…