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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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A New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement Debuts

Press Release: A New Global Framework for Managing Nature Through 2030: 1st Detailed Draft Agreement Debuts Montreal, 12 July 2021 – The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat today released the first official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework to guide actions worldwide through 2030 to preserve and protect nature and its essential […]

Tags: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Access and Benefit Sharing, Categena Protocol, Nagoya Protocol

Jul 13, 2021

Pandemic prevention should not victimize Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

Pandemic prevention should not victimize Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities In a new paper published by Conservation Letters, authors Jason M. Tylianakis, Mark R. Herse, Sanna Malinennd, and Phil O’B. Lyver lay out how wildlife consumption bans would inflict economic and cultural harms on already marginalised people. “During times of crisis, such as the present COVID […]

Tags: bushmeat, covid-19, disease mitigation, equity, ethnic, Indigenous Peoples, pandemic, racial inequality

Jun 30, 2021

Mongabay: Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation Q&A with Colleen Beg

Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation From Mongabay.com – Rhett A Butler in conversation with Colleen Begg In a Q&A with Colleen Begg, who co-founded both the Niassa Carnivore Project in Mozambique and Women for the Environment, Africa, Begg talks about discrimination, colonial legacy, privilege, and power dynamics in conservation. To me conservation really […]

Tags: Animals, Archive, Big Cats, Carnivores, Cats, Colonialism, community based conservation, Conservation leadership, covid-19, ecotourism, Education, Featured, Gender and Conservation, human wildlife conflict, Indigenous Cultures, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Lions, Mammals, Racial discrimination, Racism, social justice, transforming conservation, wildlife

Jun 29, 2021

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
— 2021

World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. Restoration. Land. Recovery. Today, June 17 2021 is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. This year the theme is “Restoration, Land. Recovery.” and will focus on turning degraded land into healthy land. Restoring degraded land brings economic resilience, creates jobs, raises incomes and increases food security. It […]

Tags: biodiversity, climate change, Indigenous people and local community rights, Land, Recovery, Restoration.

Jun 17, 2021

Convention on Biological Diversity: Extend The Nagoya Protocol to Sustainable Use of Wildlife

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity: Extend The Nagoya Protocol to Sustainable Use of Wildlife by Professor Ademola Oluborode Jegede Imagine an approach to wildlife conservation that allows wildlife populations to flourish, respects the rights of local and indigenous peoples to determine their own future, and helps reduce poverty and inequality. A framework for achieving […]

Tags: Access and Benefit Sharing, biodiversity, indigenous peoples rights, local community rights, rights and resources, Wildlife Conservation

May 6, 2021

Re-thinking nature-based solutions: seeking transformative change through culture and rights: A briefing for the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Re-thinking nature-based solutions: seeking transformative change through culture and rights This briefing, from Forest Peoples Programme looks at key areas in which nature-based solutions need more clarity and rigour if they are to play an effective and transformational role in driving financial and technical support where it is needed most to tackle the global environmental […]

Tags: CBD, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)Cultural Identity & Knowledge, Cultural Identity, indigenous knowledge

Apr 30, 2021

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 Chinese perspectives on “How community based natural resource management (CBNRM) can deliver Inclusive, fair […]

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 […]