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Cover for 17717IIED.pdf
Investing in locally controlled natural resource use
… ocean. A false choice between people and environment is causing many conservation efforts to overlook communities and lay waste to local …
Publication, 01 July 2019
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Saving Africa’s vanishing wildlife: how civil society can help turn the tide
… Conservation in Africa is failing. An upsurge in poaching and wildlife … in a number of African countries, often through their role in leading community conservation initiatives and reform movements. Finding ways to better …
Publication, 01 August 2016
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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… spoke at COP side events. 2nd Wildlife Forum – Sustainable Use for Conservation and Livelihoods Date: Wednesday, 21 November Partner … of the CBD COP14. Under the central theme 'Sustainable Use for Conservation and Livelihoods’', the forum brought together stakeholders … conventions, and have a direct positive environmental and community-level impact. The Darwin Initiative was launched at the Rio …
Event, 17 November 2018
Cover for 14567IIED.pdf
Association ANDES: Conserving indigenous biocultural heritage
… Areas (IBCHAs). These are locally and sustainably managed through community associations; form the basis for local enterprise …
Publication, 01 August 2008
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Community-based Natural Resource Management in Botswana and Namibia: An inventory and preliminary analysis of progress
… raised include - forms of participation of wildlife management; community dynamics; the institutional set-up; and indigenous community wildlife management initiatives.~It is concluded that if CBNRM … of certain communities, are still seen as the solution to conservation/tourism development problems.~In Namibia, though the policy …
Publication, 01 January 1999
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Social Assessment of Protected Areas (SAPA) at Montsde Cristal, Gabon
… the positive and negative impacts of a protected area and related conservation and development activities on the wellbeing of communities … living within and around the PA. The SAPA assessment included community and stakeholder workshops and a survey of 41 women and 59 men … July 2014 to March 2015 and was facilitated by staff of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) working in collaboration with ANPN staff. …
Publication, 01 August 2016
Elephants in front of Mount Kilimanjaro. The blurring of fact and fiction, such as claims trophy hunting is driving declines of endangered species such as elephants, is fuelling a debate that could do more harm than good for conservation and for poor people (Photo: Amoghavarsha, via Google licence)
Trophy hunting under fire
… of the debate when he spoke about the value of trophy hunting for conservation and was immediately criticised by the conservation charity LionAid .   While the prince is no doubt used to … play an important role in delivering benefits for both biodiversity conservation   and for the livelihoods and wellbeing of poor rural …
Insight, 11 April 2016
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… project pages. 1 Understanding and assessing equity in protected area conservation: a matter of governance, rights, social impacts and human … – or fairness – is increasingly recognised as a crucial issue for conservation, yet it is poorly defined and understood. Focusing on … toolkit provides practical guidance for planning and implementing community-led ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in three vulnerable …
Article, 21 December 2018
Women at an outside meeting sat on the floor under trees
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
… park shows how the biocultural heritage approach can achieve multiple conservation and development goals. Day of the Potato celebrations in … Potato Centre to restore native varieties. It has also led to conservation of Andean wildlife, crop diversity and water across 9,000 … by the NGO Asociaciόn ANDES . This approach has built strong community ownership and self-sustainability. My PhD explores whether and …
Insight, 18 February 2020
A fisher waits with a large net attached to his small boat
New rules for governing high seas must be fair for everyone
… the agenda for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas … (@EYMohammed) August 19, 2019   The equitable distribution of conservation benefits of the high seas should also be at the core of the …
Insight, 20 August 2019