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Potential of trophy hunting to create incentives for wildlife conservation in Africa where alternative wildlife-based land uses may not be viable – Authors : Lindsey, Alexander, Frank, Mathieson, Romanach
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Namibia – farmers, free-roaming elephants and the spike in human elephant conflict
Conflict between humans and Namibia’s growing elephant population can be described as a “problem of …
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UN World Wildlife Day 2021 (3 March) as “Forests and livelihoods: sustaining people and planet”
“Forests and livelihoods: sustaining people and planet” announced as theme of World Wildlife Day 202…
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CBNRM: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
CBNRM: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone by Dr Shylock Muyengwa Do community-based natu…
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Are CITES bans driving up demand for wildlife products?
An in-depth feature in Knowable Magazine by Natasha Gilbert reports that scientists and wildli…
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COVID-19 ‘perfect storm’ threatens conservation in Africa
COVID-19 ‘perfect storm’ threatens conservation in Africa A new report calls for rapid collaborative…
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Zimbabwe, Zambia in kapenta war – IOL Business Report. Author: Marawanyika 2014-06
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The Philosophical Epistemologies of Asante Proverbs in Ghana’s Biodiversity Conservation. Author: Dickson Adom 2016-10
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Bold leadership required for conservation in Southern Africa
Bold leadership required for conservation in Southern Africa by Steve Johnson How long must this go…
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Human rights, heritage and habitats threatened by the Frieda River Mining Project in Papua New Guinea
Human rights, heritage and habitats threatened by the Frieda River Mining Project in Papua New Guine…
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Case Studies
CBNRM Success Stories: A Namibian rural community’s historic choice of wildlife over cattle
CBNRM and a Namibian rural community’s historic choice of wildlife over cattle Published in The Chro…
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View the latest blogs from the Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa (CLN). Clicking on the blog titles below will take you to the CLN site.
- Communities in Botswana are looking to grow their hunting market and therefore jumped at the chance to send two representatives […]
- This conference in Lusaka, Zambia on 9-11 December 2024 brought together community leaders, government officials, policymakers development partners and academics […]
- Crop farmers living around Kasungu National Park now pay five times as much for a bag of synthetic fertiliser than […]
- Maria is a widow living on the edge of Kasungu National Park in Malawi. After her husband passed away, she […]
- Towns and villages within the Cubango/Okavango Basin in Angola are developing quickly, but is this sustainable? The concept of sustainable […]
- The Zimbabwean government recently announced its intention to cull 200 of its 95,000 elephants to feed its people. Communities living […]