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Australia's Border Ranges National Park: more than three-quarters of the park is managed as wilderness and access is by foot only. The World Parks Congress will look at how to protect and manage areas such as these (Photo: Michael Dawes)
IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
… health and supporting human life. The work of IIED Members of IIED's Natural Resources Group  and their research partners attended the … impacts, and How efforts to enhance participation and recognition of indigenous peoples and local communities in PA governance, and reduce poverty, …
Event, 12 November 2014
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IIED's best of 2020: videos
… the Andes to allow people from around the world to hear directly from Indigenous experts from the Potato Park in Peru. 4 Protracted … said that COVID-19 was a reminder that we're not separate from the natural world in a speech as part of a London Climate Action Week event … events in 2020. This video is also an example of how, where time and resources allow, we have strived to provide subtitles and translations …
Insight, 30 December 2020
Millions of Kenyans depend on the Ewaso Ngiro river and its tributaries, but over-abstraction and changing weather patterns are reducing river flows (Photo: Denis Onyodi/Kenya Red Cross Society, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Building research capacity for sustainable water and food security in drylands of sub-Saharan Africa (BRECcIA)
… these areas as fragile and degraded environments, characterising the natural climatic and environmental variability of these environments as … government planners of the logic and inherent resilience of existing indigenous local dryland livelihood systems in order to inform more …
Project, 27 July 2018
Cover for G03391.pdf
Editorial: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent (PLA 65)
… Action (PLA) which explores two important participatory tools that indigenous peoples and local communities can use to help defend their customary … – in which communities set out their customary rights to natural resources and land, as recognised in customary, national and …
Publication, 01 June 2012
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Table of contents: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent (PLA 65)
… Learning and Action explores two important participatory tools that indigenous peoples and local communities can use to help defend their customary … – in which communities set out their customary rights to natural resources and land, as recognised in customary, national and …
Publication, 01 June 2012
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The utility of ethical dialogue for marginalized voices in Africa
… encouraged or even enforced limits to the exploitation of biological resources. Yet the tendency to idealize indigenous knowledge should be resisted - some practices and beliefs can … policies. Being influenced by these new values, people now use natural resources as objects for exploitation and profit making. Ethical …
Publication, 01 January 2005
Lake Bogoria is home to one of the world's largest populations of Flamingos. It has been a protected reserve since 1973. The lake area was the traditional home of the Endorois people, who were forced to leave the area in the 1970s (Photo: Geoffroy Mauvais/IUCN)
It's time to end conservation injustice
… them from their lands. The landmark ruling set a precedent that indigenous peoples in Africa are legally entitled to collective ownership of their … than a decade after that agreement, research undertaken by IIED and Natural Justice shows that many protected areas continue to be …
Insight, 17 November 2014
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
News, 30 August 2016
People planting trees
Planting pilot has vision to nurture young tree ambassadors
… or space to plant crops or trees. And where there are trees – often indigenous species such as Markhaimia leutea, Ficus sicomorus, Rhus … they bring life, beauty and colour. As the trees fall down, so the natural beauty of the region around Kisumu falls away. And there are … to form associations with a view to sustainably managing forest resources while being able to support their livelihoods. It is on this …
Insight, 11 February 2020
People sat around a table looking at a poster.
Q&A: Communities combating illegal wildlife trade in East Africa
Article, 17 December 2020