RESPECTING RIGHTS, RESOURCES, AND LIVELIHOODS
Resource Africa supports rural African community efforts to secure their rights to access and use their natural resources in order to sustain their livelihoods. We help to build strong platforms for collaboration, knowledge and skills sharing among community-based organisations and other stakeholders across southern Africa and beyond.
We believe that when rights are upheld and incentives for conservation are provided to those who live with wildlife there will be positive conservation outcomes benefitting people and nature. We therefore support joint advocacy initiatives to ensure community voices are heard on international platforms where decisions are made that materially affect their lives.
Our Vision
Empowered and motivated communities effectively exercising their rights to sustainably manage, benefit from, and conserve their natural resources.
Our Mission
To support southern African communities’ efforts to exercise their rights and enjoy thriving livelihoods by promoting global, regional, and national commitments and actions towards policy, market and legal reforms that secure local people’s rights to own, control and benefit from natural resources, especially land, wildlife, forests and water.
Guiding Principles
- Human rights are central to our work, recognising their interdependence with the integrity of the natural environment.
- Sustainable use of wildlife and ecosystems by communities and rural people is a basic human right recognised in both national and international law.
- Addressing land and resource tenure, governance, enhanced livelihoods, gender equality, equity and empowerment as integral to our approach.
Our Work
We focus on the following four pillars of community-led, people-centred conservation:
Expanding Community Conservation
Building Local Capacity and Resilience
Amplifying Community Voices
Creating Awareness of Rights to Resources
Latest Blogs
- Rising Human-Wildlife Conflict in Zambia’s Eastern Region: An Urgent Crisis Needing Immediate Solutions
Rising Human-Wildlife Conflict in Zambia’s Eastern Region: An Urgent Crisis Needing Immediate Solutions The Eastern Region of Zambia, renowned for its picturesque landscapes and abundant wildlife, is grappling with an escalating crisis—human-wildlife conflict. Communities around South Luangwa National Park and Mfuwe are reporting increasing cases of property destruction, injuries, and even fatalities due to encounters… Read More »Rising Human-Wildlife Conflict in Zambia’s Eastern Region: An Urgent Crisis Needing Immediate Solutions - Hunting areas, the last bastion of biodiversity in Cameroon, are in danger!
Hunting areas, the last bastion of biodiversity in Cameroon, are in danger! Colonel Serge Patrick Tadjo and a team of 400 people manage the Bouba Ndjida wildlife protection complex, which comprises the fully protected National Park in the centre, where all human activities are prohibited, and seven adjacent hunting zones as buffer areas. In an… Read More »Hunting areas, the last bastion of biodiversity in Cameroon, are in danger! - Proposed United Kingdom Trophy Hunting Import Ban Threatens African Conservation Success, Ignores International Agreements
Proposed United Kingdom Trophy Hunting Import Ban Threatens African Conservation Success, Ignores International Agreements MEDIA RELEASE 21 November 2024 For Immediate Release Proposed United Kingdom Trophy Hunting Import Ban Threatens African Conservation Success, Ignores International Agreements Key Messages: Southern Africa Speaks Out Against UK’s Disregard for Conservation Realities The UK’s recent introduction of the Hunting… Read More »Proposed United Kingdom Trophy Hunting Import Ban Threatens African Conservation Success, Ignores International Agreements
