Category: Blog

The Resource Africa Blog section hosts fresh ideas and new perspectives on topical issues in conservation, rights, and development in Southern Africa and invites guest contributors to submit ideas for articles.
The views in the guest posts are the authors’ own and do not necessarily represent those of Resource Africa.
If you have a perspective on a topical issue and would like to contribute a short post, please email us info@resourceafrica.net

Celebrating Africa Day by Creating an African Agenda for Environmental Conservation

Resource Africa May 30, 2023 0 Comments

Celebrating Africa Day by Creating an African Agenda for Environmental Conservation By Resource Africa Africa Day is celebrated on the 25th of May each year, celebrating the beauty, diversity and immense potential of our continent. There is no better time to craft an African environmental conservation agenda that is led by Africans, for Africa. While policies must fall in line with multilateral...

A Southern African view on the UN Decade on Restoration

Resource Africa May 25, 2023 0 Comments

A Southern African view on the UN Decade on Restoration By Resource Africa Natural ecosystems support life on earth, whether one lives in a city or on a farm. People living in rural areas are more connected with this fact than others in urban areas, however. Soil, water, and wild foods (including plant products, meat and fish) provide sustenance and a source of income for indigenous peoples and...

Three Ways in which Communities can Benefit from the 30 by 30 Goal in the Global Biodiversity Framework

Resource Africa April 14, 2023 0 Comments

Three Ways in which Communities can Benefit from the 30 by 30 Goal in the Global Biodiversity Framework In the recently published Community-based Conservation Horizon Scan, the first and perhaps most obvious emerging issue is that communities need to be aware of is the Kumming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). In particular, the most well known “30 by 30 target” was highlighted as...

Promoting Community Conservation at CoP15 in Montreal

Resource Africa February 16, 2023 0 Comments

Promoting Community Conservation at CoP15 in Montreal By Resource Africa Resource Africa actively participated in the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 15 th Conference of the Parties (CoP 15) in Montreal, Canada during 7–19 December 2022. During CoP15, governments from around the world came together to address the biodiversity crisis by developing and agreeing upon the...

Twenty-First Century Conservation in Africa: Contemporary Dilemmas, Future Challenges

Resource Africa October 18, 2022 0 Comments

Twenty-First Century Conservation in Africa: Contemporary Dilemmas, Future Challenges Michael Bollig 2020 Africa has been at the receiving end of the monikers of others, from the pejorative ‘dark’ continent of the 19th century to be labelled more recently, first, as ‘hopeless’ and then, a decade later, as ‘rising’ by The Economist. It’s high time for Africa to carve out its own...

MEDIA RELEASE: Animal protectionists trying to undermine the South African Constitution by influencing key government White Paper

Resource Africa September 21, 2022 0 Comments

MEDIA RELEASE: Animal protectionists trying to undermine the South African Constitution by influencing key government White Paper 21 September 2022 For Immediate Release Animal protectionists trying to undermine the South African Constitution by influencing key government White Paper The government has invited public comment on its Draft White Paper on Conservation and Sustainable Use of South...

Shooting or sparing? No consensus on how to deal with elephants – Die Welt, Germany

Resource Africa September 14, 2022 0 Comments

Shooting or sparing? No consensus on how to deal with elephants - Die Welt, Germany By Eva Krafczyk With elephants, it gets emotional. Some want to hunt them down, others put protection in the foreground. Two conferences on how to deal with pachyderms show that there is no lack of arguments in the discussion. For tourists in the savannah areas and national parks of Africa, encountering an...

How to keep environmental conservation from doing more harm than good – Landscapes News

Resource Africa September 14, 2022 0 Comments

How to keep environmental conservation from doing more harm than good - landscape News In Africa, “colonial conservation” has become a human rights issue by Augusta Dwyer At a conservation congress 17 years ago, a Maasai leader named Martin Saning’o had harsh words for his audience, declaring, “We are enemies of conservation.” Well before then, the Maasai had lost most of their...

South African Revised National Biodiversity Framework 2019 – 2024 for Implementation

Resource Africa September 04, 2022 0 Comments

South Africa: The Revised National Biodiversity Framework 2019 – 2024 for implementation 19 August 2022 - The South Africa Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment published the revised National Biodiversity Framework 2019 – 2024 (“NBF”)for implementation. The overall purpose of the NBF is to coordinate and align the efforts of the many organizations and individuals involved in...

Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation: Review . Authors: Van der Wal et al,Conservation Letters

Resource Africa September 04, 2022 0 Comments

Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation - Van der Wal et al, Conservation Letters April 2022 Conservation decision makers routinely address conflict between human interests and the protection of wildlife and ecosystems (Dickman, 2010), yet challenges remain even when the interests of humans and wildlife are aligned. Download the PDF