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Lessons learnt from a community scout programme in Uganda
… for many protected areas across Africa. In Uganda, a range of community scout programmes have been established by different … from April 2016 to March 2018. As part of this project the Uganda Conservation Foundation recruited local community members as scouts around Murchison Falls Conservation Area and …
Publication, 01 March 2018
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Biocredit catalogue: a collection of biocredit developers and schemes
… The biocredit market directs finance to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity, which when designed …
Publication, 01 December 2023
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Human Rights Standards for Conservation, Supporting Document 2
… Human Rights Standards for Conservation, Supporting Document 2: Decisions of the Conference of the … of biodiversity. The approach aims to highlight to actors involved in conservation initiatives the CBD parties’ increasingly focused approach … Human Rights Standards for Conservation, Supporting Document 2 …
Publication, 01 November 2014
Lake Bogoria is home to one of the world's largest populations of Flamingos. It has been a protected reserve since 1973. The lake area was the traditional home of the Endorois people, who were forced to leave the area in the 1970s (Photo: Geoffroy Mauvais/IUCN)
It's time to end conservation injustice
… who were evicted when it became a National Reserve in 1973. The community took its case to the African Commission on Human People's … the locations where human rights abuses are occurring in the name of conservation. Could a meeting to set the international policy framework … foundations and private companies implementing or funding conservation efforts. The diversity of international legal instruments …
Insight, 17 November 2014
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Okukora N'okuguza Ebintu Omu Iziina Ry'okurinda Engagi™
… These Standards for Gorilla FriendlyTM Park Edge Community Products are in Rukiga, a language spoken around Bwindi … Environment and Development (IIED) na Institute of Tropi­cal Forest Conservation. … International Gorilla Conservation Programme …
Publication, 01 January 2018
Around 3,000 Samburu families have been affected by land purchase at Laikipia National Park in Kenya (Photo: Alfredo Miguel Romero via Creative Commons)
Human Rights Standards for Conservation (Part III)
… bear human rights obligations and responsibilities in the context of conservation initiatives? What are their obligations and … papers that served as an empirical basis for developing a set of conservation standards . The third in the series was " Human Rights Standards for Conservation, Part III: Which redress mechanisms are available to …
Article, 12 November 2014
A man carries a sack and walks in a field of tall weeds
The 30x30 target: more opportunity, less threat than expected?
… (GBF) – also called the 30x30 target – is the world’s most ambitious conservation target to date. Aiming to conserve 30% of global land and … local communities (IP and LCs) to be partners, and often leaders, in conservation on a much larger scale and fairer basis. But many global and other top-down conservation targets have in the past had negative impacts on IP and …
Insight, 14 February 2023
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Conservation and "Land Grabbing" in Rangelands: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
… the complex and evolving relationship between land rights and conservation. Drawing on a wide range of examples, it makes a series of … from conservation NGOs, development organisations, and indigenous/community rights came together to explore interactions between conservation, land acquisitions, and community land rights. The meeting was organised by the International …
Publication, 01 October 2014
A family guards their crops from wild animals on the boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Conservation works better with social justice
… All too often, Integrated Conservation and Development (ICD) projects fail to stop poaching, … live far from trading centres and transport that others within their community benefit from.  All of that creates a perpetuating trap of …   But we found that some hunters are not the poorest in their community. There were traditional hunters who sold bushmeat locally for …
Insight, 20 August 2014
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Philanthropy’s role in sustaining fisheries for people and nature
… are critical for sustainable fisheries management, biodiversity conservation and climate action, and they play a pivotal role in food …
Publication, 21 November 2023