Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network - A network of projects in the Pacific that are all working with local communities to implement and adapt traditional marine resource management systems to promote conservation and resource security. This portfolio is being implemented by a wide range of organizations across the Pacific and has subsidiary networks in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, West Papua, Palau, the Philippines, Hawaii, and other countries. This portfolio maintains it's own web site at http://www.lmmanetwork.org/.
Hunting and Wildlife Trade - A learning portfolio to determine the strategies that are most effective in reducing threats to wildlife from hunting and wildlife trade in tropical forests across Latin America, Africa and Asia by systematically analyzing the environmental, social, cultural, economic and political factors that lead to sustainable wildlife management.
RedLAC - A network of Environmental Funds in Latin American and the Caribbean working to increase their capacity to do long-term financial planning, to apply innovative finance mechanisms, and to learn about the conditions under which these mechanisms do and do not work.
Conservation Easements in Latin America - A network of key Latin American organizations that have made significant strides in developing and implementing conservation easements in the region. This recently initiated learning portfolio will work towards improving the quality of private land protection in Latin America by systematically learning about the conditions under which conservation easements work, do not work, and why. The Monterey Institute of International Studies and FOS are currently coordinating this portfolio, which will be implemented by organizations in Costa Rica, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia.
FOS Adaptive Management Meta Portfolio - A portfolio of learning portfolios that is dedicated to determining the conditions under which learning portfolios can contribute to conservation.
Historical Learning Portfolios
Sustainable Agriculture - In the late 1990s, staff from the Biodiversity Support Program worked with members of two NGOs, Defensores de la Naturaleza in Guatemala and Linea Biosfera in Mexico, to test the effectiveness of different sustainable agriculture techniques in promoting conservation. The results of this work can be found at the following URLs: