Biodiversity and Conservation

Linking biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: what, why and how?

PCLG International Symposium, April 28-29, 2010

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Social Assessment of Protected Areas (SAPA)

SAPA is a joint initiative of IIED, Care International, UNEP-WCMC and the CEESP/WCPA Protected Areas, Equity and Livelihoods Taskforce.

Poverty and Conservation Learning Group

The goal of the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) is to facilitate learning on conservation-poverty linkages between and within different communities of interest.

Linking Ape Conservation and Poverty Alleviation

Great ape range states provide a classic example of the conservation-poverty debate in practice.

IIED Interviews: Pavan Sukhdev on the 'TEEB' project

IIED talks to Pavan Sukhdev about The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) project.

Could things for biodiversity go from bad to worse?

Current efforts to protect the world's biodiversity run the risk of doing more harm than good, warns Krystyna Swiderska. In the BBC's Green Room, she says the role of indigenous and local communities in protecting the planet's genetic resources are being overlooked or even ignored.

Protecting community traditional knowledge rights: Video

This short film explores the status and threats to Bio-cultural Heritage, and the responses needed.

Conservation Initiative on Human Rights

The Conservation Initiative on Human Rights (CIHR) is a consortium of international conservation NGOs that seek to improve the practice of conservation by promoting integration of human rights in conservation policy and practice.

Sustaining local food systems, agricultural biodiversity and livelihoods

Update: Read the Open Letter of the Peoples of Cusco (PDF) to the FAO Director General, Feb. 10.

On 26 February 2010, Peruvian indigenous organizations, local government bodies and civil society organizations in Cusco, Peru, held a meeting to formulate a strategic response to a FAO ABCD10 starting on 1 March that will push for greater use of genetically modified organisms. A demonstration through the ancient Inca streets followed up this multi-stakeholder gathering. The meeting produced a Declaration which underlines that the FAO agenda does not represent the best approach for tackling agricultural challenges, including those brought by climate change.

Linking biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: what, why and how?

Date
Wednesday, 28 April, 2010 - Thursday, 29 April, 2010
Location
Zoological Society of London

Linking biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: what, why and how?

2010 International Year of Biodiversity

The United Nations has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity. It’s a key reminder of how fundamental biodiversity is to the health of planetary systems as well as human prosperity and wellbeing — and a chance for all of us to learn more.

Biodiversity events calendar

Calendar of biodiversity events for 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity. We will be updating and added new events as the year progresses.

Protecting community rights over traditional knowledge

News: Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge: Key findings, recommendations and case studies, 2005-09 Project Folder: Now available

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The current system of intellectual property protection designed to promote commercial and scientific innovation, offers little scope for protecting the knowledge rights of indigenous peoples, traditional farmers and healers. Safeguarding this rich knowledge base requires the development of alternative systems, which support the distinct socio-economic, cultural and ecological needs of local resource users.

Protect and survive: customary safeguards, traditional knowledge

In thousands of rural communities from Bolivia to Bangladesh, traditional knowledge makes up the living core of culture. Bound up with local livelihoods and biodiversity, it forms a holistic system precisely tailored to local needs and environmental capacity. Its evolution over time and through shifting conditions ensures traditional practices are robust and adaptable to climate change.

Seed industry and UN agency ignore traditional ways to protect biodiversity and knowledge

Communities worldwide risk losing control over their traditional knowledge and biological resources because a UN agency (the World Intellectual Property Organisation -WIPO) and the global seed industry insist on using Western intellectual property standards for managing access to them.

CBD Working Group on Access and Benefit-Sharing

Date
Monday, 9 November, 2009 - Sunday, 15 November, 2009

Governments to negotiate an International Regime on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-Sharing, Montreal, 9-13 November

 

The impact of climate change on tourism in the Caribbean

Tobago, in the Caribbean relies heavily on tourism as its main form of income. The effects of climate change will cause changes in the ecosystems and natural resources needed to sustain the tourism economy. This project looks at what those changes may be, and how policymakers can plan to minimise the risks.

IIED Interviews: Pavan Sukhdev - green economies of the future

In support of BioDiversity Day, Pavan Sukdhev talks to IIED about the sustainable, green economies of the future.

The Governance of Nature and the Nature of Governance : Policy that works for biodiversity and livelihoods

This report examines the governance of biodiversity - how it is managed and how decisions about it are made - at local, national and international level. It reviews experience with community-based conservation, mainstreaming biodiversity, and the Biodiversity Convention process, and includes case studies from India, Peru and Tanzania.

The IUCN World Conservation Congress

More than 8,000 of the world’s leading decision makers in sustainable development: from governments, NGOs, business, the UN and academia. Together in one place for 10 days: to debate, share, network, learn, commit, vote and decide. The objective: ideas, action and solutions for a diverse and sustainable world.

Barcelona