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, skills sharing, and joint advocacy to ensure community voices are heard in debates that materially affect their lives.
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.
News, Videos, Podcasts and Webinars, Open Letters, Statements, and Opinion Pieces from the members of the Community Leaders Network, Resource Africa Partners and Affiliates, Youth Voices and Contributing Guest Writers.
Conservation and colonialism – A Statement from the Southern Africa Community Leaders Network Our Resources Our Rights The Community Leaders Network (CLN) challenges those in the Global North who are...
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VIDEO: “Let Africans Decide” – Dr. Moreangels Mbizah and her journey in wildlife conservation In the latest of Resource Africa’s series Let Africans Decide video series, Dr. Moreangels Mbizah, a...
Read MoreIn the latest of Resource Africa’s series Let Africans Decide video series, Moreangels Mbizah, a member of the Community Leaders Network, reflects on her journey in wildlife conservation – from Zimbabwe’s Lowveld to Oxford University and back.
Recent media coverage about conservation, COVID19, biodiversity, sustainable use, CBNRM, indigenous and local community rights.
Celebrity power undermining global conservation efforts, scientists warn Finally, the voices of Africa’s rural communities are being heard. Congratulations Alex Morss on an important article. Delighted you’re hearing the voices...
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The Global North: time for some home truths about deforestation A powerful French book punctures the myth that countries in the global south are largely responsible for habitat destruction Is...
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The Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021 will be an online global conference that aims to accelerate, innovate, and scale-up the world’s efforts in adapting to the inevitable effects of climate change. This event responds to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ call for “more concrete plans, more ambition from more countries and more businesses” to make the world more climate-resilient. The Summit will bring together a range of participants, including governments, development partners, United Nations agencies, and representatives of civil societies and financing institutions, drawing on their diverse perspectives and providing a venue for interactive discussions on ways forward. The conference will reflect on the progress on tackling extreme weather- and climate-related hazards, demonstrate how successful approaches can be scaled up, and present an action roadmap leading to COP26.
On 26 November 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared that, starting from the sixty-third session of the General Assembly, 20 February will be celebrated annually as the World Day of Social Justice. The General Assembly recognizes that social development and social justice are indispensable for the achievement and maintenance of peace and security within and among nations and that, in turn, social development and social justice cannot be attained in the absence of peace and security, or in the absence of respect for all human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The goal of the fifth session of the United Nations’ Environment Assembly 2021 will be to ‘mobilise, motivate, and energise’ member States and stakeholders into sharing and implementing successful approaches that contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals—particularly the eradication of poverty and the promotion of sustainable patterns of consumption and production. The theme of the conference will be Strengthening Actions for Nature to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, which calls for strengthened action to protect and restore nature and the nature-based solutions to achieve the sustainable development goals in its three complementary dimensions: social, economic, and environmental. The assembly will connect and consolidate environmental actions within the context of sustainable development, and give significant impetus to more effective implementation.
Over 800 million people live in tropical forests and savannahs in developing countries. Indigenous and rural communities have a particularly close relationship with these natural systems. They rely on them to meet their essential needs, from food and shelter to energy and medicines, but they also maintain a strong personal, cultural and spiritual relationship with these environments. Indigenous peoples and local communities are also historic custodians of the planet’s most important reservoirs of biodiversity, including forests.
International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the cultural, economic, political and social achievements of women. enlighten and empower women and girls worldwide to choose to challenge stereotypes and oppose bias to help create the change we want to shape a fairer future in a more inclusive and gender equal world.
This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge
As women we can be stronger and more powerful when we work together.
In spite of the ongoing efforts, biodiversity has continued to deteriorate worldwide, and this decline is only projected to worsen in the years to come. To prevent this, and ensure that the protection and sustainable use of biodiversity is integrated into policies that will guide the post-pandemic economic and developmental recovery plans, governments from around the world will convene at the UN Biodiversity Conference in May 2021. The event will see the setting of new goals for nature over the next decade, through the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 framework process. It will also involve the planning of broad-based action to bring about a transformation in society’s relationship with biodiversity and to ensure that by 2050, the shared vision of living in harmony with nature is fulfilled.
