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Explore our library of scientific papers, journal articles, online and print reports from scholars, institutions, practitioners and journalists addressing topics around local community rights, sustainable use, CBNRM, rights-based conservation, rural livelihoods, wildlife trade, climate change and post-COVID futures in rural Africa.

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Africa-China CSOs CBNRM Webinar: How can CBNRM Deliver Inclusive, Fair and Equitable Conservation for People and Nature?

Africa-China CSOs CBNRM Webinar: How can CBNRM Deliver Inclusive, Fair and Equitable Conservation for People and Nature? The Africa CSOs Biodiversity Alliance (ACBA) in collaboration with China’s Civil Society Alliance for Biodiversity Conservation (CSABC) hosted a webinar to highlight African and Chineseperspectives on “How community based natural resource management (CBNRM) can deliver Inclusive, fair and […]

Tags: ACBA, cbnrm, CSABC, global biodiversity framework

Apr 6, 2021

World Water Day in Africa – Articles from The Conversation Africa

World Water Day in Africa To mark it ,The Conversation Africa curated articles that provide deep dives into the precious resource, and its management, across the continent. The Conversation Africa‘s Commissioning Editor for East and Francophone Africa, Moira Sooner, explains: To start with, we focus on the Nile, a gigantic water source that flows through […]

Tags: access to water, climate change, drought, water, water security

Mar 22, 2021

Community perspectives of empowerment from trophy hunting tourism in Namibia’s Bwabwata National Park – Journal Of Sustainable Tourism. Authors: Thomsen et al. 2021

Tags: community, conservation, development, hunting, Namibia, sustainability, tourism

Mar 7, 2021

Community Perceptions on the Socio-economic Impacts of Wildlife Tourism from the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in Botswana: The Case of Tsabong – African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure 2020. Authors: R Lekgau and T Tichaawa

Tags: community perceptions, culture, employment generation, social impacts, wildlife tourism

Covid-19 and the collapse of tourism: Developing a platform concerned with sustaining conservation and communities in Africa – virtual consultation. Luc Hoffman Institute

Tags: conservation and communities, liveihoods, tourism, wildlife economies

Statement by the SADC Executive Secretary, Her Excellency Dr. Stergomena Lawrence Tax on World Environment Day 2020

Tags: biodiversity, covid-19, SADC, sustainable development, time for nature

World leaders must approach development with a fresh perspective to save wildlife By Maxwell Gomera

Time for Nature World leaders must approach development with a fresh perspective to save wildlife By Maxwell Gomera The dulcet, almost musical voice of the Runkeeper App interrupted the pounding sound of my feet as I started my run. ‘Time, five minutes. Distance, one point zero nine kilometres. Average speed, 4 minutes 57 seconds […]

Tags: build back better, covid-19, environmental recovery, lampreyfish, lockdown, personal essays, revival, timefornature

Mar 3, 2021

Community Leaders Network SBSTTA Statement February 2021 Authors: Community Leaders Network (CLN)

Tags: biodiversity, CBD, human rights, local community rights, rights-based conservation, SBSTTA, sustainable use

Feb 23, 2021

An Assessment of Local People’s Support to Private Wildlife Conservation: A Case of Save Valley Conservancy and Fringe Communities, Zimbabwe – Hindawi 2019. Authors: Matseketsa et al.

Academic Articles & Journals

Tags: CAMPFIRE, community conservation, local communities, PAs, protected areas, Save Valley Conservancy, SVC

Feb 22, 2021

Savé Valley Conservancy: A Large-Scale African Experiment in Cooperative Wildlife Management – Earth. 2008 Authors: Lindsay et al

Tags: cattle industry, conservances, game farming, game ranching, human wildlife conflict, tourism, wildlife management

Feared and Hated but Admired and Respected -The Status and Plight of the African Lion (Panthera Leo) in Sub Saharan Africa: A Pest facing extinction or a favourite Tourist Attraction – Daily Nation, Kenya 2013. Author: Mwelwa C. Musambachime

Tags: captive lion breeding, lion breeding, nature tourism, Panthera leo, Southern Africa, trophy hunting

Nature, wealth, and power: Leveraging natural and social capital for resilient development – USAID 2013. Editors: J Anderson et al.

Tags: case studies, cbnrm, livelihoods, nature tourism, sustainable conservation

Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action – Conservation Letters, 2020. Authors: Peter Larsen et al

Tags: civil society, conservation conflict, environmental defenders, extractivism, global biodiversity framework, Governance, human rights, social policy, violence

Rural development and the role of game farming in the Eastern Cape, South Africa -Elsevier 2017 Authors: Thijs Pasmans, Paul Hebinck

Tags: conservation, game farming, land use, rural development, Trophyhunting

Human-Wildlife Conflicts – Nature & Faune FAO Regional Office for Africa Vol. 21, Issue 2 2007. Editor: M. Laverdière Assistant Editors: L. Bakker, A. Ndeso-Atanga

Tags: human wildlife conflict, HWC

Audio Clip of CLN Statement to SBSTTA Virtual Session

The CLN release an audio clip of the Statement to SBSTTA Virtual Session Listen to this clip of the Community Leaders Network (CLN) statement delivered by CLN Coordinator, Ms. Maxi Pia Louis, Namibia Association of Community Based Resource Management (CBNRM) Support Organisations (NACSO), during the 18th February virtual session of the CBD subsidiary body on […]

Tags: COP-15, resources, rights and livelihoods, rights-based conservation, rural livelihoods, SBSTTA, sustainable use

Feb 19, 2021

Complementary benefits of tourism and hunting to communal conservancies in Namibia – Conservation Biology. Authors: Naidoo et al. 2016

Tags: communal lands, community based conservation, financial benefits, hunting ban, in-kind benefits, rights-based conservation, stakeholders

Jan 17, 2021

Conserving Africa’s wildlife and wildlands through the COVID-19 crisis and beyond – Nature, Ecology & Evolution 10-2020 Authors, Lindsey, Roe, Dickman et al

Tags: African conservation, conservation funding, pandemic, wildlife, wildlife trade

Celebrity power undermining global conservation efforts, scientists warn

Celebrity power undermining global conservation efforts, scientists warn Finally, the voices of Africa’s rural communities are being heard. Congratulations Alex Morss on an important article. Delighted you’re hearing the voices of rural communities and for having the courage to produce this balanced, well-researched article on the lived reality of African people. Read the article here

Tags: animal welfare, Biodiversity Africa, celebrity campaigns, conservation, Environmental activism, let Africans decide, news, Protest, wildlife

Jan 16, 2021

The Achilles Heel of Conservation – There is a ceiling in conservation science, particularly in Africa – Ilizwe.co.za Author: Merlyn Nomusa Nkomo 2020-06

Tags: access, Africa, African perspectives, blackbirders, conservation, nature

Jan 13, 2021

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