Tag: community development

sustainable use

Sustainable use in the Greater Kruger

Resource Africa June 03, 2020 0 Comments
The blog, written by Lindie Botha and entitled Sustainable Use in the Greater Kruger, with the tagline Publics, parliaments and lots of drama*, appeared in Timbavati Guest Blogger Series: The Conservation Conversation. It's about how the debate around sustainable use is framed rather than some kind of consensus definition of sustainable use as a development model. Extract: It’s been a busy...

Submission to UN Human Rights Commission Consultation on Biodiversity and Human Rights

Resource Africa May 19, 2020 0 Comments
Rural Community Leaders in Dialogue with Dr David Boyd The following comments are respectfully submitted to Dr David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment in response to the questionnaire ‘Healthy Ecosystems and Human Rights: Sustaining the Foundations of Life’.  These comments are submitted on behalf of a network of rural community leaders engaged in Community...
trophy hunting

The Elephant Debate: upholding democracy, human rights and conservation

Resource Africa May 17, 2020 0 Comments
This article by Masego Madzwamuse and Liz Rihoy, was published 01 March 2019 in Mmegi - an online and weekly print English language newspaper in Botswana. It is part of a number of opinion pieces on the Elephant Debate. For decades Botswana has maintained an enviable international reputation as an ‘African miracle’ due in large part to its robust democracy, sound governance systems and...
Namibian wildlife conservation

Competing conservation ideologies: Troubled times for reporting on Namibian wildlife

Resource Africa May 16, 2020 0 Comments
By Liz Rihoy and Malan Lindeque  •  Op-ed The Daily Maverick 14 April 2019 Two competing ideological narratives have emerged in African wildlife conservation. The one is based on so- called ‘compassionate conservation’, aligned with the mostly Western animal rights movement, the other based on the human rights of the owners of the wildlife, the local people who live with wild...

Open letter to WHO and UN Environment Programme

Resource Africa May 13, 2020 0 Comments
Dear Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Ms. Inger Andersen, COVID-19: Holistic, equitable solutions are required to improve human and planetary health and reduce zoonotic pandemic risks  We, the undersigned individuals and organisations, commend the work the UN is doing to tackle the COVID-19 disease pandemic and its socio-economic consequences. The recently released UN Framework for the...
wildlife trade

Press Release: Experts call for holistic, equitable approach to tackling wildlife trade

Resource Africa April 24, 2020 0 Comments
Following the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an international group of experts and key stakeholders from 35 countries today called upon the United Nations to consider impacts on biodiversity and the world’s most vulnerable people in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 250 conservation and development experts and organisations, from international agencies to community groups...