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.
Watch Dr. Rodger’s Lubilo’s presentation the on proposed anti-hunting laws in the UK and Europe that ignore the rights of millions of poor, rural Africans to conserve wildlife on their lands, and threaten their livelihoods. The briefing took place virtually on the 7th of April 2022.
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The Resource Africa Blog section hosts news, developing stories, fresh ideas and new perspectives on topical issues in conservation, rights, and development in Southern Africa and beyond.
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The commons and the theory behind community-based natural resource management Prior to the modern industrial era, communities living on common-lands the world over (called commons)
Reconsidering the economic relevance of recreational hunting Hunting wild animals is an integral part of African history and culture. Today, many people continue to hunt
Post CBD Geneva: Closing statement by the CBD Alliance A closing statement was issued after CBD Geneva on March 29, 2022 by the CBD Alliance,
Recommendations for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework – ACBA In an extensive report following the recently ended CBD Geneva meeting in March 2022, the African
First Draft of Global Biodiversity Framework Identifies Four Goals for 2050 The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has published the first draft of
African and Community Voices were heard at UNEA 5 RAUK and CLN participated in the 5th meeting of the United Nations Environmental Assembly held in Nairobi,
Celebrating Resolution 489 of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AHCR) called on African states
Risks associated with infrastructure development in southern African rural areas When United Nations Environment Agency (UNEA 5.2) convenes next week from 28 February to 4
Resource Africa (RA) recently launched a policy position paper entitled Indigenous Flora and Fauna, African Resources for African People, wherein we argued for the inclusion of the sustainable use of wildlife into the UN Convention of Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Nagoya Protocol.
Recent media coverage about conservation, COVID19, biodiversity, sustainable use, CBNRM, indigenous and local community rights.
Trophy hunters in Tajikistan are the unlikely saviours of the snow leopard – The Guardian UK “We have very few other sources of income here
Celebrating Resolution 489 of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AHCR) called on African states
Can a global conservation fund bridge the gap between global finance and the realities for indigenous communities? A Daily Maverick Hunting OP-ED responds to the
UK trophy hunting import ban not supported by rural Africans – Mongabay While a UK bill to ban the import of hunting trophies enjoys popular
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