Why African community conservation is here to stay
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The first Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) must put community land rights at the centre of its agenda.
To conserve Africa’s biodiversity, its leaders must rethink protected areas The first Africa Protect…
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How Biocultural Rights to Rooibos Opens the Way for Equitable Access and Benefit Sharing in Southern Africa
How Biocultural Rights to Rooibos Opens the Way for Equitable Access and Benefit Sharing in Southern…
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Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Protecting Culture and the Environment …
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‘It’s neocolonialism’: campaign to ban UK imports of hunting trophies condemned by African delegation
‘It’s neocolonialism’: campaign to ban UK imports of hunting trophies condemned by African delegatio…
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Calls for compensation intensify as elephant-wildlife conflict increases in Zimbabwe
As human-wildlife conflict escalates in Zimbabwe, villagers confront deadly encounters with the grow…
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Is ethical ivory trade possible? A debate on Al Jazeera.
Is ethical trophy hunting possible? International television news channel Al Jazeera aired a video d…
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANTI-HUNTING LEGISLATION
CAMPAIGN AGAINST ANTI-HUNTING LEGISLATION An initiative to protect the rights and livelihoods of Afr…
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Monitoring and Evaluation Intern – Resource Africa South Africa
Monitoring and Evaluation Intern – Resource Africa South Africa ResourceAfrica South Africa (RA-SA) …
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Resource Africa and the San and Khoi southern African community: the fight for justice, recognition, and sustainability
Resource Africa and the San and Khoi South African Community: the fight for justice, recognition, an…
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Size is the Elephant in the Room – Beyond the Headlines
Size is the Elephant in the Room – Beyond the Headlines Unfortunately, non-factual opinions, e…
Read MoreLatest CLN Blogs
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 […]