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Sustainable tourism in the Srepok Wilderness Area, Cambodia
… water buffalo and their ecosystem, through generating financing for conservation activities and supporting local livelihoods as well as … balanced with the benefits received from other sources. What IIED did Community-based monitoring A key component of the project was monitoring … The original Darwin Initiative-funded project successfully piloted community-based monitoring in the 3,500 km 2 SWA. Its success led to …
Project, 21 June 2011
Aerial view of poor community. Overtext reads "We can shape the future"
Happy new super year! Why is 2021 such a big deal for climate, nature and people?
… future. What’s happening in 2021? Before the pandemic, the global community was gearing up for a big 2020. But as the pandemic spread and … Bank and International Monetary Fund annual meetings, the IUCN World Conservation Congress, the UN Food Systems Summit and an array of global … adaptation: Gobeshona Global Conference , International Conference on Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change and the Development and …
Insight, 02 February 2021
People sit on chairs two metres apart while listening to a man at a lectern
COVID-19: IIED in the media
… 9 October 2020 | Ensia – In the face of COVID-19, how can conservation efforts reduce poaching and limit the risk of spreading … to use it and benefit from it in ways that incentivise the long-term conservation of species and habitat, and support their livelihoods." 7 …
Article, 14 April 2020
Some of the publications produced by IIED during 2015 (Image: IIED)
IIED's best of 2015: publications
Article, 31 December 2015
Durban Beach, South Africa (Photo: Darren Glanville, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Investing in natural capital to deliver the SDGs and reduce poverty
… are paid to manage their land or watershed, encouraging the conservation of natural resources.  … labour and resources in natural capital, as in the case of Nepal's community forestry user groups.   Communities are not passive bystanders … these older approaches where the government would scale up community action – increasingly we are seeing communities sharing …
Insight, 17 July 2017
A photo of a woman.
Protecting Indigenous lands: lessons from Chile
… firm, operates three projects within the ancestral lands of one community, the Colla de Pai-Ote.  Between 2007 and 2013,  … emissions made it the second-largest emitter of mercury in Chile. Community members became ill and their animals died from drinking the … meeting in Santiago, she told him: “My community is an Indigenous conservation territory, and we have ten mining [operations] there, most …
Article, 17 November 2020
Discussing free, prior and informed consent in REDD+
Free, prior and informed consent in REDD+: going beyond the right to say ‘no’
… or for reducing the scale of deforestation. Members of the Kifulu community were speaking under a tree by a roadside, near the Luki … Reserve is split into three parts: a 6,816 hectare core biodiversity conservation zone, a 5,216 hectare buffer zone and nearly 21,000 … men took part in the meeting and, unusually, the chief sat among the community members. The age of the participants ranged from young …
Insight, 27 July 2012
UNESCO considers Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area to be of global importance for biodiversity conservation, but it faces significant development pressure from tourism (Photo: Justin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity into wider planning and policy
… . Tackling the trade-offs There can be trade-offs between meeting conservation, climate and development goals – particularly if they are … shocks and reduce their options for development. But ill-planned conservation measures can equally exacerbate poverty – for example, if … development targets such as food security can mean sacrificing conservation targets such as maintaining forests. To tackle these …
Article, 16 August 2013
Bornean orangutan. Photo: Terry Sunderland
Great apes: Their fate is ours
… "Conservation is not the exclusive domain of conservationists," … in mining or oil businesses. Consumers can play a key role in the conservation of great apes by ‘using their dollars to express their … to help us harness consumer power to conserve great apes? "We as a community -- primatologists, conservationists, etc -- are not very good …
Insight, 24 October 2013
A woman and a man smiling.
Introduction to the CBA14 Dragon’s Den
Event, 02 September 2020