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Three people with a pile of vicuña wool

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Who’s listening? Community voices on illegal wildlife trade

a turtle

Insight

Navigating ocean investments

Map shows where the EbA Evidence and Policy project is being undertaken

Project

Ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation

An aerial view of Entebbe airport. The airport is located on the shores of Lake Victoria, close to numerous environmentally sensitive wetland areas (Photo: Niranjanoak, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)

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Environment or the economy? How Uganda uses natural capital accounts in policymaking

Recovering wildlife populations in Namibia are largely attributed to policies that give local people rights to benefit from wildlife on their land (Photo: Ronald Woan, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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There’s justice in the battle for biodiversity

The video 'Meet Mr Forest' was presented at the 2nd Beijing Documentary Week in August 2018 (Photo: Rachel E. Berkley/IIED)

News

New IIED videos inform Chinese consumers about Africa's forests

Conservation, communities and equity

How IIED is building capacity to understand and implement equitable conservation and enhance community voice in conservation policymaking More in this collection

Prioritising positive and negative social impacts of the protected area at Rwenzori Mountain National Park, Uganda (Photo: Rob Small)

Article

Introduction to conservation, communities and equity

Local villagers receive wildlife training in the Mbarang'andu Wildlife Management Area in Tanzania, which incorporates seven villages. (Photo: WWF/USAID Biodiversity & Forestry, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Article

Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management

Community engagement in preventin pangolin poaching in Nepal (Photo: Ambika Prasad Khatiwada)

Article

Wildlife crime and local communities

Locally-controlled forestry

How IIED is supporting locally-controlled forestry for improved livelihoods, justice and sustainability More in this collection

The Forest and Farm Facility is now working with Ecuador forest farm producers such as this bamboo production business

Project

Forest and Farm Facility Phase II

People planting seedlings

Article

Archive of completed locally-controlled forestry projects

Long read

Finding a green path for China and Africa?

Resilience in agricultural and food systems

How IIED is building greater local control and resilience into agricultural and food systems More in this collection

An elderly woman in a field holds crops in the air with both hands

Project

Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and agricultural resilience

People sitting in a pasture

Project

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP)

View of the town of Pisaq in Peru, near the Potato Park Biocultural Heritage Territory

Project

Indigenous biocultural heritage for sustainable development

Latest publications

Park Action Plans: Stories of Change from a community enterprise programme around Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda

Substituts à la viande sauvage : guide pratique pour la conception de projets

Wild meat alternative projects: practical guidance for project design

Can collective intellectual property rights preserve culture and biodiversity?

Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development

Uganda's Community Conservation Policy 2020: A new policy to strengthen the conservation of wildlife resources through the active involvement of communities

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The landscape of the Santurbán páramo.

Unpacking regulatory chill: the case of mining in the Santurbán páramo in Colombia

Blog, Dec 2020

Boat on a lake and a waterfall in the background

Making natural capital accounting an institution in Uganda

Blog, Dec 2020

Men posing for a photo while constructing a weir with bamboo structures.

CBA14: explore with us how nature-based solutions support local action for adaptation

Blog, Aug 2020

Two women sitting down and speaking to each other.

Sustaining coffee producers’ agency in the context of COVID-19

Blog, Aug 2020

Páramo landscape

Investment disputes from below: whose rights matter?

Long read, Jul 2020

A group of men in felt hats and woollen capes

“Public officers are also human beings”: trust and environmental governance

Blog, Jul 2020

A view over a forest

Truly transformative change is key to combating the biodiversity crisis

Blog, Jun 2020

People walking down a street with mountains in the background

Foreign investment, knowledge and international arbitration: inside a research trip

Blog, Jun 2020

Cultivated fields and forests

Connect: mainstreaming biodiversity information into the heart of government decision making

Project, Jun 2020

Two men pushing a boat filled with mangrove seedlings

Finding solutions in nature for climate change

Blog, May 2020

aerial view of an oil palm plantation

Land rights and investment treaties

Project, May 2020

A large group of people sitting in a circle outdoors

Democratising international investment law

Project, May 2020