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PLA 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa
… This issue includes a special theme section on Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa. This includes a range of lessons and innovative tools that have been developed by the facilitators of community-based natural resource management programmes in southern … PLA 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa …
Publication, 01 December 2006
Ladeh Panjang Wetlands. Photo: Luke Mackin
Building evidence on how biodiversity affects poverty
… IIED and the UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre  worked together to map the evidence base … A database of the studies included is published on the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group's website to enable other researchers to … have been brought together in the IIED research report ' Biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction: what's the connection? A systematic …
Project, 22 June 2015
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Indigenous Peoples, local communities underrepresented in governance of nature funding
… to the land – makes a substantial but undervalued contribution to conservation outcomes.   For many years, Indigenous Peoples and local …
Insight, 13 December 2022
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Community-based Conservation: Experiences from Zanzibar
… Participatory approaches to conservation and resource management are increasingly being adopted … from minor involvement of local people, to increasingly sophisticated community-owned processes of conservation and resource management. Yet … learned. This paper provides a practical and reflective account of a community wildlife management programme in Zanzibar, initiated to …
Publication, 01 January 1999
In a broad river, a man sits in a small, narrow boat. Other similar boats are nearby, and poles are sticking up out of the water.
Connecting social protection with fisheries management and conservation
… havoc with their lives and livelihoods.  Fisheries management and conservation interventions should reduce these risks in the long term, … and programmes can be leveraged to support fisheries management and conservation interventions.   In collaboration with the  World Bank’s … stewardship by leveraging social protection interventions.  Through a community of practice on 'blue social protection’, we aim to promote …
Project, 06 June 2022
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Standards for Gorilla Friendly™ Park Edge Community Products
… These Standards for Gorilla FriendlyTM Park Edge Community Products have been produced to encourage best practice among community enterprises that supply products to the tourist market around … label will provide a market advantage for products and incentivise conservation of Gorilla habitats. … International Gorilla Conservation Programme …
Publication, 01 January 2018
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Indigenous knowledge and values: key for nature conservation
… can lead to effective, locally owned, equitable and cost-effective conservation outcomes and contribute to global development goals. … Indigenous knowledge and values: key for nature conservation …
Publication, 06 August 2021
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Community conservation and participatory policy processes in southern Africa (PLA 55)
… of contents and to download individual articles. The key to effective community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) has been major … wildlife policies that have been most innovative. Keywords: CBNRM, conservation, policy, poverty, marketing, tourism, quota setting, … Community conservation and participatory policy processes in southern …
Publication, 01 December 2006
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Overview article: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa (PLA 55)
… Article in: Participatory Learning and Action 55: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa. Guest editors: Brian Child and Brian … and innovative tools that have been developed by the facilitators of community-based natural resource management programmes in southern … Overview article: Practical tools for community conservation in southern Africa (PLA 55) …
Publication, 01 December 2006
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Human-elephant conflict handbook: a guide to crop protection from elephant raiding
… This handbook was created with input from communities living near conservation areas directly affected by wildlife conflicts. Over the … bricks. It also provides additional information on how to set up community human-wildlife elephant conflict teams and the importance of …
Publication, 12 February 2025