Resource Africa shares media stories which offer opportunities for debate around and education of both the public and policy makers of the value of biodiversity to promote conservation, sustainable use and equitable sharing of benefits.
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Video: Botswana and Community Centred Conservation 40% of Botswana’s land has been set aside for conservation.The President of Botswana, H.E. Mokgweetsi Masisi, has made it… Read More »Video: Botswana and Community Centered Conservation
The Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 (GBO-5), launched by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), warns, ‘humanity is at a crossroads’. Released on 15 September, the… Read More »Press Release: Humanity at Crossroads Warns UN Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 Report – 2020-09
Podcast: Into the Wild – 3 Namibians discuss Trophy Hunting African peoples have hunted animals for hundreds of years and this is highly regulated. This… Read More »Podcast: Into the Wild – 3 Namibians discuss Trophy Hunting
The March/April 2020 editi0n of IUCN SULi Digest featured some of the many articles circulating on Covid-19 which relate to Wildlife trade and trade bans and… Read More »Webinar: Covid-19: Sustainability & Remodelling of Wildlife Sector
COVID-19-led ban on wild meat could take protein off the table for millions of forest dwellers – Forests News. Authors: R Nasi, J Fa 2020-03… Read More »COVID-19-led ban on wild meat could take protein off the table for millions of forest dwellers
Extract: The term ‘fake news’ has become popularized over the last few years. The term refers to information, usually presented as ‘news’ that has no… Read More »The Dangers of Extrapolation – Hunting Revenues and Local Communities – CIC. 10-2019
Extract: Populations of UK’s most important wildlife have plummeted by an average of 60% since 1970. A quarter of mammals and nearly half of birds… Read More »Populations of UK’s most important wildlife have plummeted since 1970 – The Guardian. Author: Damian Carrington. 10.2019
On the surface it would seem that time is running short for African wildlife, but one Ghanaian entrepreneur sees conservation as one of the great… Read More »Transforming African conservation from old social cause into next-gen growth market
Extract: In an article on October 7, 2019, BBC science and environment writer Helen Briggs reported the findings of scientists from universities in the US… Read More »Global wildlife trade higher than thought