Category: Research Publications
COVID19, Community Livelihoods and Sustainable Wildlife Trade
In the COVID19, Community Livelihoods and a Sustainable Wildlife Trade This in-depth feature, by writer Wendee Nicole was published by Ensia, a media outlet of University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, focuses on alternative ways to meet communities' basic needs and secure community livelihoods in the face of COVID19.The article quotes @dilysroe on wet market ban undermining food...
CBNRM in southern Africa
CBNRM in southern Africa
Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) has been implemented in several southern African with various degrees of success. While the form in which CBNRM is implemented also varies from country to country, three main components to the conceptualisation of CBNRM in southern Africa can be identified (Jones and Murphree 2004):
1. In order to take management...
Video: Botswana and Community Centered Conservation
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 patently clear that the sustainable use of natural resources will be the centrepiece of his government’s environmental policy. He believes that unless rural communities are allowed to benefit meaningfully from the...
Video: The Torghar Conservation Programme of the Suleiman Markhor, Pakistan
Video: The Torghar Conservation Programme of the Suleiman Markhor, Pakistan Sustainable use as a community conservation method is practiced in many parts of the world as illustrated in this video case study of the successful Torghar Conservation Programme of the Suleiman Markhor of the Torghar Hills in Pakistan.OverviewThe markhor is a species of wild goat that lives in extremely rugged terrain...
Press Release: Humanity at Crossroads Warns UN Global Biodiversity Outlook 5 Report – 2020-09
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 report comes as the COVID-19 pandemic challenges people to rethink their relationship with nature, and to consider the profound consequences to their own wellbeing and survival that can result from continued biodiversity loss...
Podcast: Into the Wild – 3 Namibians discuss Trophy Hunting
Podcast: Into the Wild - 3 Namibians discuss Trophy Hunting African peoples have hunted animals for hundreds of years and this is highly regulated. This episode of Into The Wild podcast features three Namibians, among them Namibian Association of CBNRM Support Organisations (NACSO) director Maxi Louis whose organisation supports communities living in conservancies, John Mwilima, a management...
Webinar: Covid-19: Sustainability & Remodelling of Wildlife Sector
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 Conservation and wildlife tourism.WEBINAR: COVID-19, Conservation and Wildlife TourismThe Kenyan Department of Tourism and Wildlife hosted a webinar around the topic Covid-19: Sustainability & Remodelling of Wildlife Sector in early...
Looking beyond hunting and tourism for community benefits – Luc Hoffman Institute. Author: Melissa de Kock. 10.2019
In her 'thought piece' entitled Looking beyond hunting and tourism for community benefits published in October 2019 by Luc Hoffman Institute, Melissa de Kock (WWF-Norway, Senior Advisor: Conservation, Climate and Communities) states that for community based conservation to evolve beyond the existing models based on tourism and hunting, initiatives such as those taken up jointly by Luc...