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A carpenter bee
Biodiversity on the brink: local people must shape nature’s new deal
Insight, 16 November 2018
A fruit bat
Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue
… shape and content of the new framework, the vast majority were from conservation agencies. A handful of rights-focused organisations … alleviation and development efforts. And we’ve all heard stories of conservation efforts to save some species of wildlife bringing about … Prominent suggestions for the framework’s key elements are area-based conservation targets including, among other things, the “ Nature Needs …
Insight, 29 April 2019
Cover for G01726.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Participation and fishing communities Addressing the challenges of fisheries development
… view and subject to environmental fluctuations that are often not The community is a relatively recent focus of documented or well understood … the management of the newly assured policies towards production and conservation, Economic Exclusion Zones (EEZ) of coastal is reflected in …
Publication, 01 January 1997
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
RIP Cecil the lion – what will be his legacy? And who should decide?
… for managing this park, derived most of its income for wildlife conservation across the country from trophy hunting. With minimal … deaths. Communities pay the price In Namibia, more than half of the community-owned conservancies (covering 20 per cent of the country) have … and tourism encouraging communities to turn their land over to conservation. Communities retain 100 per cent of benefits from …
Insight, 31 July 2015
Cover for 17393IIED.pdf
Hard-won wisdom: what conservationists need to know about wildlife-related corruption
Publication, 01 December 2016
The Stone Village Seed Park lies in the Himalayan foothills of Yunnan, Southwest China. It is the homeland of the ethnic minority Naxi people. 
Biocultural heritage territories film now in Spanish
… Lok Chetna Manch (India). The film will be launched at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawai'i , from 1-10 September, when IIED will …
News, 30 August 2016
A focus group ranks in order motivations for unauthorised resource use as part of the R2P research, at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (Photo: Mariel Harrison)
Fairness can address the resentment that drives hunting in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
… Kampala, says fairness is the missing ingredient in the 'integrated conservation and development' (ICD) projects that aim to protect the … Medard Twinamatsiko, researcher at the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation and co-author of the report. "Others hunt, not because they … will help ICD projects around Bwindi to become more effective at both conservation and poverty alleviation by improving fairness. "This …
News, 17 September 2014
A group of four men and women wearing overalls, one with an axe over his shoulders and one crouching down, pose for a photo. In the foreground are a few rocks, with a dusty landcsape and mountains in the background.
Lessons from a fruitful journey: seven years of EbA research and action
… , a smallholder farmers’ network in China, water funds in Peru and a community environment conservation fund in Uganda. Integrated approaches Integrated approaches … who are not. This entails using strategic communications , growing a community of EbA practice to share lessons learnt, and finding ways to …
Insight, 31 May 2022
A stone gabion constructed to control erosion across a gully in the Namaqualand region. (Photo: Halcyone Muller / Conservation South Africa)
EbA Evidence and Policy: South Africa
… sustainable development. IIED, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the UN Environment World Conservation … sharing experiences of how the implementation of EbA contributed to community resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic . We also contributed … This assessment and its application are being shared with municipal, community and private stakeholders and role players involved in …
Project, 31 May 2018
Woman holding a shovel to the ground in a cropped field.
IIED's best of 2021: blogs
… principles – to stay engaged. Together, these events will enable a community of practice to grow that will demonstrate the role and value … the privileged positions and structures that perpetuate inequality. 7 Community-led COVID-19 response: an update from the Philippines  July : …
Article, 23 December 2021