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The Las Trancas Valley in Chile, November 2014 (Photo: UICN / Marcelo Vildósola Garrigó)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Chile
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem … Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) project aimed to build community resilience by implementing nature-based solutions to disaster … restoration plan (in Spanish only), and was organised by the Chilean Environmental Restoration Network, the National Forest Institute and the …
Project, 21 February 2018
Dam filling up a half empty reservoir
New archive restores knowledge produced by the World Commission on Dams
… and decommissioning, and raised awareness for the social and environmental issues associated with large dams.  The WCD was praised … earthquake by publishing an online archive documenting post-disaster community planning work in the city of Port-au-Prince, returning over … on Sustainable Investment to make available an extensive catalogue of community development laws related to the mining sector featuring …
News, 21 December 2021
Ploughshare and radiated tortoises that have been seized in Bangkok will be among the case studies presented at a wildlife crime symposium in South Africa (Photo: Panjit Tansom/TRAFFIC)
Symposium examines how communities can be helped to combat wildlife crime
… brought together researchers, government officials, UN agencies, community groups and NGOs to assess the scale of the problem and look at … Ministry for the Environment , Australia's Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED)  and the wildlife trade monitoring … be highly effective. IIED has been researching community-based wildlife management as a tool to tackle the illegal wildlife trade …
News, 20 February 2015
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Manejo Comunitario de Vicuñas en Perú Estudio de Caso del Manejo Comunitario de Vida Silvestre
… This study forms part of IIED’s Evaluating Eden project which explores community-based wildlife management (CWM) through a comprehensive review of … and for people and to identify the social, political, economic and environmental factors that influence its efficacy. Vicuna management in …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Paying local communities for ecosystem services: The Chimpanzee Conservation Corridor
… conservation. What did IIED do? This project set up a payments for environmental services (PES) scheme to provide incentives to individual … than 50% of contracted forest owners engaged in additional forest-based enterprises that ultimately improve their short-term and long-term … with smallholder farmers in a participatory process. Forest management practices needed to conserve chimpanzee habitats in the …
Project, 22 June 2011
A Conservancy Rhino Ranger in Namibia stands proudly before a cow and calf that he has tracked during a patrol. Rhino sightings have increased over the past 12 months thanks to an expanded Rhino Ranger force and support organisations (Photo: Minnesota Zoo and Save the Rhino Trust)
Community solutions are the key to tackling wildlife crime
… at the source has been issued by a group of more than 70 researchers, community representatives, government officials, UN agencies and NGOs … The main objective of the meeting was to explore how community-based interventions can be successful in combatting the illegal use and … the drivers of wildlife crime. The South African Minister of Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, addressed the symposium. Delegates …
News, 02 March 2015
A woman in an orange life jacket sits on the edge of a square pond cage, surrounded by water.
How social protection can support people and sustain fisheries
… between NGOs, private companies, fisheries sector organisations and community-based organisations. These last two often play a role in the informal … (the norm for social assistance) does not always deliver the best environmental outcomes, since they are not always the ones with the …
Insight, 06 June 2022
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Source Book on Community-Based Conservation in South Asia: People, policies and publications
… Eden project. Under this project a South Asia regional review of Community Involvment in conservation was conducted. This review involved … studies at a series of sites to understand and document community based conservation of natural resources, and in particular, of … review was coordinated by a group of individuals associated with the environmental action group Kalpavriksh. …
Publication, 01 January 2000
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Forest-based associations as drivers for sustainable development in Uganda
… Uganda's 2,000-3,000 forest-based associations play an important role in the country's sustainable development. They include community groups made up of individuals (and often with a strong social … secondary processing, management, training and enterprise support and environmental services (such as ecotourism or carbon sequestration …
Publication, 01 June 2006
The CBA14 logo with a photograph of a person planting rice.
Twitter chat: CBA14 – from local solutions to global action
News, 26 August 2020