This Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment explores the application of network governance to large landscape conservation. The following article comprise the issue:

• Forging new models of natural resource governance
• Connecting people and places: the emerging role of network governance in large landscape conservation
• Understanding leadership in a world of shared problems: advancing network governance in large landscape conservation
• Sustaining the useful life of network governance: life cycles and developmental challenges
• Networks and landscapes: a framework for setting goals and evaluating performance at the large landscape scale
• Navigating governance networks for community-based conservation
• Network governance for large-scale natural resource conservation and the challenge of capture