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Uganda's Community Conservation Policy 2019: a new policy to strengthen the conservation of wildlife resources through the active involvement of communities
… The Uganda Wildlife Authority’s Community Conservation Policy 2019 advances Uganda’s approach to community engagement and outreach. The policy highlights the strategic … Uganda's Community Conservation Policy 2019: a new policy to strengthen the conservation of …
Publication, 01 August 2020
Person from Indigenous community in Peru managing a forest.
Advancing rights and equity in area-based conservation
… happens “respecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local community, including over their traditional territories”. It also … territories can be, themselves, part of the answer for how to expand conservation. The target also states that protected and conserved areas … from global policy teams and from specific protected area sites, community conservation initiatives, UN agencies (both CBD and UNEP), …
Event, 31 January 2024
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Conserving Ikalahan agrobiodiversity and promoting sustainable agriculture in the Philippines
Publication, 17 December 2025
A group of men and women outside a building
Peer learning resources for Community Conservation Wardens in Uganda
… The IIED-led project ‘ Implementing park action plans for community engagement to tackle illegal wildlife trade (IWT) ’ is developing and providing a skills development programme with the Community Conservation Unit of the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) . Training has … Peer learning resources for Community Conservation Wardens in Uganda …
Article, 16 June 2020
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Road map for advancing rights and equity in conservation
… of more equitable governance and respect for rights in area-based conservation.  Designed to ensure a diversity of perspectives and … human rights organisations specialising in land and resource rights, conservation organisations, community conservation initiatives, UN agencies and major conservation … Road map for advancing rights and equity in conservation …
Publication, 11 October 2024
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Enhancing governance of community-based natural resource management in Zambia
… and declining wildlife populations. This has serious consequences for conservation in Zambia. This project will support key stakeholders to … as across the eastern and southern Africa region that are using a community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) approach. Improved … CBNRM, a policy briefing on why governance should be at the heart of conservation, a guidebook for strengthening CBNRM governance and …
Project, 03 February 2021
The Sistema Agroflorestal Dendê - or palm oil agroforestry system in Tomé-Açu managed by Cooperativa Agrícola Mista de Tomé-Açu.
Trailblazing in Tomé Açu: inspiring a global agroforestry transition in northern Brazil
Insight, 03 August 2026
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… George Owoyesigire (GO) is director of the community conservation sub-directorate of the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) . … Owoyesigire about the aims, scope, and ambition of UWA’s exciting new community conversation policy and, with Ugandan communities facing a …
Article, 21 July 2020
A large group of people sit on the floor in the shade from a tree
Establishing a biocultural heritage territory to protect Kenya’s Kaya forests
…  but managed by Mijikenda communities (‘co-management’).  The Rabai community (a Mijikenda sub-tribe) maintains a traditional governance … four gazetted Kaya forests. A Council of Elders oversees traditional conservation rules that protect the Kaya forests and encourage … conservation rules and strengthens cultural values and the community's commitment to conserving Kaya forests as cultural …
Project, 09 February 2022
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Applying a human rights-based approach to human-wildlife conflict
… a challenge both for the wellbeing of local communities and for the conservation of nature. While human-wildlife conflict (HWC) is often …
Publication, 23 April 2026