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Indigenous woman watering aloe vera plantation. She is wearing traditional clothing in pink and green shades.
Transforming conservation: towards community-led nature governance
… Despite recent global commitments, top-down and exclusionary conservation still marginalises Indigenous Peoples and local communities … and relationships to nature. Progress in recognising and shifting conservation leadership to IPs and LCs is hampered by a number of … What is IIED doing? Our overarching goal is to make Indigenous – and community-led conservation the norm – shifting paradigms, policy and …
Article, 19 September 2025
A group of people cheer and celebrate as they hold up a small savings box on which is written 'MKUBA'.
Community eco-credit: from origins to practice and evidence
Event, 01 December 2026
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Advancing Indigenous and community leadership of conservation requires confronting barriers to change
… and leadership of Indigenous Peoples and of local communities in conservation. This is reflected in Target 3 on area-based conservation, … This article reflects on barriers to advancing Indigenous- and community-led conservation, and actions to address those barriers. While … by members of the IUCN task force on Advancing Indigenous and Community-led Governance of Protected and Conserved Areas. …
Publication, 30 October 2025
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Tackling barriers to social justice in conservation
… There are growing efforts to transform area-based conservation towards more equitable governance that recognises the … publications that are holding up the transformation of conservation towards greater social justice. Reflexively and proactively … Tackling barriers to social justice in conservation …
Publication, 04 August 2026
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Locally led finance for nature: estimating finance flows to local actors for conserving and restoring nature
Publication, 12 October 2026
A nomadic herder is surrounded by goats in a bleak but beautiful landscape, with mountains in the background.
Applying a human rights-based approach to conflicts over wildlife
… a growing concern for the wellbeing of local communities and the conservation of biodiversity. Wildlife and their management can pose … the presence and behaviour of wildlife is often influenced by conservation and other resource management decisions in a landscape. For … to education or a household’s access to food, income or water. In conservation, these are often considered to be negative social and …
Project, 07 October 2025
A group of women and men are seated outside in discussion.
SAGE-GT for enhancing the power of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in area-based conservation
… Conservation, communities and equity … the power of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in area-based conservation …
Article, 16 July 2024
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Strengthening agrobiodiversity conservation: ensuring food security and environmental protection
… and sets out recommendations to institutionalise agrobiodiversity conservation through community seed banks, biodiversity-friendly agriculture and supportive … Strengthening agrobiodiversity conservation: ensuring food security and environmental protection …
Publication, 16 July 2026
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Scaling up Equitable Governance in Area-based Conservation (SEGA)
… of the importance of governance for effective and sustainable conservation of PCAs and Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs), and that social inequity associated with nature conservation is not acceptable.  But when the 30x30 target says that … Conservation, communities and equity … Scaling up Equitable Governance in Area-based Conservation (SEGA) …
Project, 22 May 2025
A group of Indigenous farmers, wearing brightly coloured clothes, smile as they lean on a wooden rail and gather around a large rock, in front of a scenic landscape of mountains under a blue sky.
Weaving resilience: biocultural territories and agrobiodiversity zones in the Southern Andes
… adapt the Potato Park’s governance and economic strategies to their community contexts. In Apurimac, we are working with a local NGO, … project is using a decolonising action-research approach, centred on community-to-community horizontal learning. This recognises that communities are the … Conservation, communities and equity …
Project, 10 April 2025