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Knowledge hub

While the ALIGN Project has concluded, the Linear Infrastructure Practitioners in Asia (LIPA) Network’s remains available to discuss and learn more about linear infrastructure safeguards. Its purpose is to facilitate the free exchange of information among practitioners, professionals, and academics interested in safeguarding natural resources and promoting resilient communities during the development of linear infrastructure.

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Bridge across mangrove with woman in hat staring out over marsh

© Diego M. Garces / WWF

Field Insights

Explore case studies, best practices, and success stories that demonstrate how safeguard measures are avoiding, lessening, and/or mitigating adverse impacts from linear infrastructure on people and natural resources in Asia and around the world.
An elephant walks along a trail toward camera

© Robert Pritchard

Publications

Read reports and studies on how linear infrastructure affects people and nature and what we can do to avoid or mitigate any future conflicts.
Two women give outdoor presentation

© USAID Biodiversity Conservation / WWF-Viet Nam

Tools and Trainings

Access practical resources from the project, including in-depth training modules conducted by experts on implementing safeguards for more sustainable and wildlife-friendly linear infrastructure, and spatial data on planned and existing linear infrastructure and high biodiversity areas in Asia.
Dawei Road cutting around a mountainside

© WWF - Myanmar / Hkun Lat

PSA on Susainable Infrastructure

View of a canopy bridge between trees from below

© WWF-US / Yawar Motion Films

LISA Project

The Linear Infrastructure Safeguards in Asia (LISA) Project was the USAID-funded predecessor to ALIGN that assessed Asia’s existing capacity to develop wildlife-friendly linear infrastructure. Led by the Center for Large Landscape Conservation, the project developed several publications and training

This content is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development  (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC) and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.