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.
The questions here are intended to take you deeper into the topic of the sustainable use of wildlife, which was the subject of Resource Africa’s webinar and subsequent social media engagement.
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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 Writers.
The Animals Abroad Bill: Trampling African rights to win UK votes The UK government’s proposed Animals Abroad Bill is purportedly meant to reduce the involvement
CBD: RA represented at the Parallel NGO Forum in Kunming The Conventional on Biological Diversity (CBD) NGO Parallel Forum in Kunming was held in September
Founder members of the Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa (CLN) met in Namibia’s capital city, Windhoek at Avani Hotels from 18-22 October to formalize
Understanding the Kunene Wildlife Numbers An article submitted by the Namibian Association of CBNRM Organisations (Nacso) was published in The Namibian on 7 October 2021. The article is based on
Sustainable use in the focus at events organized during the 4th day of IUCN WCC – Report In a report this week the International Council
Sustainable Use of Wildlife: It’s The Law! Webinar – The Nagoya Protocol and the Rights of Local Communities Resource Africa (RA) recently launched a policy
Rights-based approaches are a powerful way of promoting equitable governance IIED Natural Resources Group IIED Briefing September 2021: The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) currently
IUCN WCC 3-11 September 2021: Transformative Change for Nature and People Resource Africa and the Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa will be represented at
Recent media coverage about conservation, COVID19, biodiversity, sustainable use, CBNRM, indigenous and local community rights.
In conservation efforts, US hypocrisy is undermining African countries’ proven accomplishments – Washington Examiner The USA uses hunting to fund conservation efforts, which contribute to
COP26: Hope is us Post COP26, the global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis, 350.org, shared an email entitled “The Bad News and the
Climate change means hunger in our communities, COP26 African delegates say. Africa is acutely vulnerable to climate change despite accounting for only four per cent
Divergent views on trophy hunting in Africa, and what this may mean for research and policy – article by Shaya van Houdt, Richard P. Brown,
Generally held every four years, the IUCN World Conservation Congress is the world’s largest conservation event.
The event was postponed in light of the COVID-19 pandemic from its original date in 2020.
The event is jointly organized by the French Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and brings together leaders from government, civil society, Indigenous peoples’ organizations, business, and academia to determine the world’s most pressing environmental and development challenges, and actions to address them.The first hybridRead More
in-person and virtual environmental event since the pandemic began, the Congress will drive action on nature-based recovery, climate change and biodiversity for decades to come.
World Environmental Health Day is annually observed in many countries around the world on September 26. The observance was inaugurated in 2011 in Indonesia.
World Environmental Health Day was launched by the IFEH Council (International Federation of Environmental Health). This organization disseminates knowledge about environmental health among people and promotes cooperation between countries to improve the environmental situation of our planet.
The World Rivers Day is the world’s largest celebration of rivers and the communities and lifeforms they sustain.
World Rivers Day is a celebration of the world’s waterways. It highlights the many values of rivers and strives to increase public awareness and encourages the improved stewardship of rivers around the world.
Rivers in virtually every country face an array of threats, and only through our active involvement can we ensure their health in the years ahead.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of healthy rivers and clean water has never been more important. On World Rivers Day, there were an incredible array of Read More
events, both physical and virtual, planned around WorldFish focal countries in preparation for the world’s largest celebration of rivers and the many lifeforms they sustain.
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