Wildlife trade in Mexico, conservation, and pandemics
As Mexico reels from the coronavirus (COVID-19) economic devastation and public health disaster, Van…
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Snakes make good food. Banning farms won’t help the fight against coronavirus
Originally published in The Conversation authored by Daniel Natusch, Macquarie University; Gra…
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Humans aren’t the Virus
“There have been many plagues in the world as there have been wars, yet plagues and wars always find…
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Botswana – Integrating wildlife into rural economy is key to its survival
This article appeared in the Mail and Guardian (South Africa) 13 Mar 2019. By Maxwell Gomera, Liz Ri…
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Submission to UN Human Rights Commission Consultation on Biodiversity and Human Rights
Rural Community Leaders in Dialogue with Dr David Boyd The following comments are respectfully submi…
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The Elephant Debate: upholding democracy, human rights and conservation
This article by Masego Madzwamuse and Liz Rihoy, was published 01 March 2019 in Mmegi – an onl…
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Contested Conservation: Implications for Rights, Democratisation, and Citizenship in Southern Africa
This paper, by Masego Madzwamuse, Elizabeth Rihoy, Maxi Louis was published in the journal Developme…
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Competing conservation ideologies: Troubled times for reporting on Namibian wildlife
By Liz Rihoy and Malan Lindeque • Op-ed The Daily Maverick 14 April 2019 Two competing i…
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Open letter to WHO and UN Environment Programme
Dear Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Ms. Inger Andersen, COVID-19: Holistic, equitable solutions a…
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Press Release: Experts call for holistic, equitable approach to tackling wildlife trade
EXPERTS CALL FOR HOLISTIC, EQUITABLE APPROACH TO TACKLING WILDLIFE TRADE – Following the 50th annive…
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Letter about Trophy Hunting to the Editor of Science Magazine: A Response from Southern African Community Leaders
A recent letter in Science by Dickman et al about trophy hunting unleashed passionate debate in the …
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Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development – Authors: Dilys Roe a,⇑ , Amy Dickman b , Richard Kock c , E.J. Milner-Gulland d , Elizabeth Rihoy e , Michael ’t Sas-Rolfes
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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.
- The Zimbabwean government recently announced its intention to cull 200 of its 95,000 elephants to feed its people. Communities living […]
- The Academia Group of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) organised two major events during the second half of 2024 […]
- Placing communities at the heart of conservation efforts involves not only acknowledging their role as guardians of biodiversity but also […]
- The new Community Leaders Network (CLN) strategic plan describes the pathway to impact that CLN will take over the next […]
- The Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa (CLN), representing over 20 million individuals across twelve Southern African nations, stands as […]
- Viewed from space, the world-famous Okavango Delta looks like a large pan attached to a handle – the Okavango River. […]