Conservation Coaches Network Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand

Welcome to CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand!

We acknowledge the traditional custodians, elders and ancestral spirits of the lands we live and work on.

We are a network of individuals dedicated to promoting adaptive management and the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (Conservation Standards). We are passionate about improving the practice of conservation in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and globally. 

We are part of a Global Conservation Coaches Network.

CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Monthly Webinars

Every month the Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet) Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand will be running a webinar to discuss a variety of different topics relevant to the Conservation Standards (CS) and Healthy Country Planning (HCP). 

We wanted to provide CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand practitioners and coaches with an opportunity to come together and learn from one another in an informal, online setting. The sessions will be facilitated by CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Committee members and other members of the CS and HCP community. 

Each month we will release information about the session, any resources associated with the session and a Zoom link for attendees. Each session will be recorded and uploaded to the CCNet YouTube account and linked via this website. 

If you have any questions about the webinars please contact either:

Haojin Tan haojin.tan@gmail.com or

Leah Feuerherdt: leah.feuerherdt@ourcommonplace.org.au

How to navigate this site

On this page you will find information about CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand, the Conservation Standards and how to get involved.

In the Our Network tab at the top of this website you will find some information about CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand, including how we are organised.

In the Agenda tab you will find list of the webinar sessions and a calendar where we will add events as they are shared with us so that you can keep track of what's on in the region.

In the Sessions tab you will find each webinar session with a Zoom link to the session, bio of the facilitators, an overview of the session, related resources, the contact person for the session, and following the completion of the session, the YouTube link. 

The Conservation Standards are a free, common structure practitioners can use to promote evidence-based excellence in practice and learn from each other across organizational, geographic, cultural, temporal or spatial barriers.

CCNet trains and supports Conservation Coaches to lead Conservation Standards-based projects and programs. Coaches help teams identify strategies, develop measures, capture and articulate uncertainties; they encourage on-going assessment and continuity of effort; they link practitioners with other support services and identify peer projects with similar challenges. Coaches actively promote the Conservation Standards around the world.

CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand is a network of workshop facilitators and conservation planners who apply a common planning framework, the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation, to natural resource management projects in Australia and New Zealand. The Open Standards (aka Conservation Action Planning or Healthy Country Planning) is a systematic process for identifying measurable goals and actions based on a sound understanding of the biological, social and/or cultural components of a landscape.  

You can read more about CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand here or here.

CCNet Australia & New Zealand maintains an Email Discussion Board for conservation practitioners in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania. There is also a global listserv that you might also like to join and the Indigenous community of practice listserv. If you would like to join these listservs please contact Frank or Cristina.

To join the CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand listserv and the Community of Practice of Conservation Standards on Indigenous Lands and Waters listserv please contact Frank Weisenberger: frank@frankweisenbergerconsulting.com 

To join the CCNet Global listserv please contact Cristina Lasch: clasch@TNC.ORG 

We also have a CCNet Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Facebook page and a LinkedIn page that you can follow to receive updates and information.