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Exploring the links between biodiversity, conservation and local livelihoods

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New five-year strategy to reform broken nature finance system

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Principles for inclusive nature action

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How IIED’s SAGE tool is fostering equitable and inclusive governance of protected areas

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Learn more about focused areas of IIED's biodiversity work

Conservation, communities and equity

A programme of work showing how IIED is building capacity to understand and implement equitable conservation and enhance community voice in conservation policymaking

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Biodiversity and development

A programme of work showing how IIED is working to ensure biodiversity conservation, climate change and economic development are tackled together by the institutions that drive policy, rules, plans, investment and action

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Ecosystem-based adaptation

A programme of work focused on people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to climate change and promote sustainable development

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Women champions of biodiversity

A series of blogs and interviews illustrating the role, influence and impact of women working to safeguard the world’s biodiversity

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Strengthening agrobiodiversity conservation

Advancing locally led approaches for people, climate and nature

Analysis of laws and policies that support Indigenous biocultural territories in Peru

Catalysing agrobiodiversity: a call for differentiated and complementary approaches

Bioeconomy: a transformative step towards sustainability or threat to biodiversity and social justice?

Applying a human rights-based approach to human-wildlife conflict

From assessment to action: how SAGE enables local solutions for equitable governance in conservation

Low-tech, bottom-up, place-based approaches to addressing environmental degradation

How research influences government action for nature

Potential priority issues for REDAA in sub-Saharan Africa

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Beyond maize: exploring agricultural diversification in Zambia

Insight, 22 August 2019

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IIED calls for more attention on effective community engagement in tackling illegal wildlife trade

News, 15 August 2019

A herd of elephants (Photo: Sean Habig, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Biodiversity loss – more than an environmental emergency

Insight, 25 July 2019

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

Active Project

Bwindi: bees, baskets and brilliant guided walks

Insight, 27 June 2019

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Evaluating change can be challenging; it starts with quality data collection

Insight, 25 June 2019

Achieving transformational change for the ocean

Insight, 11 June 2019

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Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?

Insight, 31 May 2019

Wild meat: is there an appetite for alternatives?

Insight, 21 May 2019

Development and life in general under threat from accelerating destruction of nature – but solutions are possible

News, 06 May 2019