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Ethiopia's Mursi tribe graze cattle, but also hunt for meat and ivory. There are frequent conflicts with government and park authorities about land rights (Photo: David Stanley via Flickr)
Ensuring equitable management of protected areas: we're still defining the issues
… and in some cases redefined, core elements of the international conservation agenda. The 2003 Congress in Durban was notable for … communities. That meeting also made commitments to enhance equity in conservation, powerfully endorsed by Nelson Mandela himself. And since … (WPC 2014) have left a legacy of new thinking and practice on conservation's social aspects? Perhaps not. Certainly, the congress did …
Insight, 05 December 2014
Costa Rica's Peñas Blancas Reservoir is the focus of work involving payments for ecosystem services (Photo: Dr Ina Porras)
Payments for ecosystem services: We can't leave people out of the equation
… that work directly with local communities — from a Mexican forest community that sells carbon credits to a project that protects … the preferences of local people in four villages near the Ongo Community Forest. Beira Leimona showed us how ICRAF has used auctions in …
Insight, 28 March 2014
Unspoiled Seychelles landscapes and their rich biodiversity shouldn't be harmed by development (Photo: tiarescott, via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Finding the best outcomes for biodiversity and development
… facing up to the challenge of balancing development and biodiversity conservation. Land is limited Half of Seychelles land is designated as … islands and tourism establishments where environmental conservation and rehabilitation projects are ongoing, but the concern is … is to convince other sectors that they must build biodiversity conservation into their own development plans. Seychelles is beautiful …
Insight, 22 May 2014
The Potato Park’s Craft micro-enterprise group. Biocultural heritage indicators that are a guarantee of origin and authenticity have increased incomes and improved social cohesion at the Potato Park (Photo: Asociacion ANDES (Peru))
Designing a biocultural heritage labelling system: survey results
… of wide participation at local level was also highlighted to ensure conservation of biocultural diversity. But the need for some independent …
Insight, 16 January 2017
Men and women sitting in chairs.
What happens when the landgrabbers leave? An account from Kilwa, Tanzania
… to Tanzanian land tenure and investment legal frameworks. From community-centred dialogue to government commitments Land acquisition in … dialogues . The local multi-stakeholder dialogue brought together community and government representatives and led to the government … land back, and will use part of it for community-based forestry and conservation” – which has generated significant income for the village …
Insight, 14 December 2020
Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
Insight, 14 July 2020
Cover for 11070IIED.pdf
Biodiversity for the Millennium Development Goals: What local organisations can do
… compelling evidence of the positive links between biodiversity conservation and human well-being. In practice, however, biodiversity … Can ‘bottom-up’ approaches to conservation – decentralisation and community management – provide the answer? A recent review shows that community-led conservation can contribute to human well-being and to the …
Publication, 01 March 2007
Restoring mangroves (Photo: Orsibal Ramírez/IUCN)
EbA Evidence and Policy: El Salvador
Project, 17 December 2018
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Case study on approaches for supporting pastoralist groups facing climate change effects in Tanzania
… areas as wide as agriculture, natural resource management, tourism, conservation and urban development have had vague or contradictory …
Publication, 20 April 2017
Shift power to people to preserve natural world, urges report
… call — aimed at governments, businesses, international agencies and conservation groups — comes as thousands of delegates from these groups … livelihoods." Historically, biodiversity was under various forms of community management but today rules devised and imposed by government … based on devolved management and equitable benefits – such as community-based conservation – can be equally effective for conservation …
News, 08 October 2008