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A traditional dance festival attracts tourists in Romania's Maramures Nature Park. The park was designed as a multifunctional protected landscape and was zoned to reflect both environmental priorities and economic needs of local people (Photo: Radu Pop/UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Equity, justice and ecosystem services: what do we mean?
… Forest Degradation (REDD+) and protected areas (PAs) for biodiversity conservation.   To this end, we recently organised an informal meeting … over equity and justice in natural resource management (NRM) and conservation date back to the colonial era. What has changed in the last … international development experience? , Maryanne Grieg-Gran Nepal's community forestry (CF) and lessons on equity , Nya Sharma Paudel, …
Insight, 11 May 2015
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The Greater Kilimanjaro Landscape, Kenya and Tanzania
… The case study was originally published as part of the compilation Conservation, crime and communities, published by IIED (2015) …
Publication, 01 February 2015
Arid landscape with mountains in the background
Talking transdisciplinarity
… problem solving is often underappreciated in the environmental conservation sector. Perspectives, goals and priorities between … The IIED-led SENTINEL project  and the British Ecological Society’s Conservation Ecology Group  co-ran an online workshop at the 2020 …
Insight, 16 April 2021
REDD+: Learning from participatory forest management
… and social gains. These  include: decentralisation in West Africa ; community-based tourism in Zimbabwe ; controlled hunting areas in Botswana ; conservancies in Namibia ; community-based forest management throughout Africa , Asia and the … benefits, equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms and biodiversity conservation. One key point to remember is that REDD+, like any …
Insight, 10 November 2011
An image of Mohammad Sayedul Haque, the Bangladesh Minister of Fisheries and Livestock alongside a table around which sit participants from Bangladesh, Myanmar and India as they discuss sustainable hilsa fishery management (Photo: Essam Yassin Mohammed/IIED)
Scientists call for international collaboration to safeguard hilsa fish stocks
… among Bangladesh, India and Myanmar for sustainable development, conservation and management of hilsa fish." The event was hosted in … One of the study's recommendations was to set up a Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund to help with the costs of incentives. The … Azad, told the meeting that effective implementation of the 'Hilsa Conservation Trust Fund' was key to ensure the financial sustainability …
News, 06 May 2016
Charting a course for biodiversity and the poor
… for their food, shelter, income, fuel, health, quality of life and community, and that they have few alternatives when these resources are … is less certain. A meeting last April , organised by our Poverty and Conservation Learning Group , heard experts conclude that conservation … out of poverty . A review of more than 400 documents revealed that community timber enterprises, forest tourism, agro-forestry, marine …
Insight, 22 October 2010
A photo of the Amazon rainforest, with water in the foreground. Sixty per cent of the rainforest, which covers 2,100,000 square miles, is located in Brazil (Photo: www.bbmexplorer.com, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Critical theme: lessons and ideas for sustainable development in the Amazon
… NGO's work to promote sustainable involvement, environmental conservation and the improvement of the quality of life of the riverine …
Event, 23 October 2017
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Roundtable on businesses, markets and biodiversity - Connecting consumers to the source
… important opportunity to send a constructive message to the business community on the following issues: Sustainable roadmaps for businesses - … Paying the right price: how to reinvest part of the benefits into conservation and recovery of our natural capital? Shared responsibility: how to rebalance the conservation responsibility along the whole value chain? …
Publication, 01 March 2010
An illustration with a speech bubble: "We're dealing with multiple intertwined crises" with scales and illustrations depicting climate change, COVID-19, rising inequalities and biodiversity loss
A green recovery from COVID-19? Not without climate, nature and development solutions
… for achieving cleaner air, healthier water, enhanced biodiversity conservation and plans for climate action. Initiatives supporting these …
Insight, 26 November 2020
A new radish variety shown off by Dayanand Joshi
As climate changes, Himalayan farmers return to traditional crops
… encouraging further innovation and conserving local crop diversity. Community seed banks have been established in both regions and are … to decline in both regions. It is important that the scientific community recognises the crucial role that traditional farmers play and …
Insight, 29 October 2018