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Woman standing in water, fishing using a big netted basket.
Reflections on UNOC3 and strengthening coastal stewardship
… is working with partners to strengthen knowledge and capacity for using tools such as  social protection  to promote sustainable fisheries … benefit, and concerns remain about the  debt burdens these types of mechanisms impose on developing countries.  More promising was the … vital step towards ending harmful subsidies that fuel overfishing and biodiversity loss and reduce the ocean’s benefits to people. Repurposing …
Insight, 23 June 2025
Economic Incentives for Marine and Coastal Conservation
… and a range of critical additional ‘ecosystem services’, from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection. Yet … an element of financial incentives into existing regulatory mechanisms. Examples, both terrestrial and marine, from across the world …
Publication, 01 November 2013
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… of wildlife crime and intelligence gathering – for example initiating mechanisms for facilitating and engaging community informants and … to strengthen implementation of education and awareness programmes using both traditional and modern approaches. For example, people are … being implemented as planned to improve people’s wellbeing and ensure biodiversity conservation. Tourism, more broadly, is of course taking a …
Article, 21 July 2020
Lions on the move in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. While populations of lions have increased by 12% in four countries, including Botswana, studies show a 43% overall decline from 1993-2014 (Photo: Barrett, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
To save Africa's wildlife, conservation needs a radical shake-up
… or reduce human-wildlife conflict are constantly emerging but more mechanisms are needed to compensate people for the costs they bear.  … Roe  ([email protected]) is principal researcher and team leader (biodiversity), and James Mayers ([email protected]) is director of … Biodiversity …
Insight, 03 March 2018
Man moves charcoal with a shovel
How innovative shared labels are promoting diversity, biocultural heritage and sustainable production
… by the daily global news. Structural crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality coupled with the prevailing impact of … For our planet to survive escalating climate change and rapid biodiversity loss, we need healthy, well-functioning ecosystems. … developed in Zambia by the Choma Charcoal Association providing an incentive for local charcoal producers to produce charcoal sustainably …
Insight, 20 March 2023
Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… in the Congo Basin, satellite-based remote sensing tree cover reward mechanisms that channel finance to communities conditional on protecting … then be further incentivised through remote sensing tree cover reward mechanisms. But at present, most approaches are found only in isolated … Biodiversity …
Insight, 14 July 2020
A family fishes in Chandpur, Bangladesh
New rules for high seas must include poorest countries’ needs
… communities. A treaty for all One of the biggest threats to marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction is overfishing. … of marine protected areas, giving incentives to fishers for not using damaging fishing practices, and enhancing access to markets and … Biodiversity …
Insight, 05 September 2018
A Conservancy Rhino Ranger in Namibia stands proudly before a cow and calf that he has tracked during a patrol. Rhino sightings have increased over the past 12 months thanks to an expanded Rhino Ranger force and support organisations (Photo: Minnesota Zoo and Save the Rhino Trust)
Community-led solutions: key force in tackling wildlife crime
… of subjects from the economics of the illegal wildlife trade, to using criminology theory to understand what drivers trigger wildlife … of wider discussions around sustainable development. Dr Dilys Roe, biodiversity team leader at the International Institute for Environment … local communities and are accompanied by appropriate accountability mechanisms, and Apply sanctions that can undermine positive incentives …
News, 02 March 2015
People participating in a workshop.
Development and Climate Days 2020
Event, 02 December 2020
A Conservancy Rhino Ranger in Namibia stands proudly before a cow and calf that he has tracked during a patrol. Rhino sightings have increased over the past 12 months thanks to an expanded Rhino Ranger force and support organisations (Photo: Minnesota Zoo and Save the Rhino Trust)
Community solutions are the key to tackling wildlife crime
… of subjects, from the economics of the illegal wildlife trade to using criminology theory to understand the drivers of wildlife crime. … recommendations are incredibly timely and relevant." Dr Dilys Roe, biodiversity team leader at the International Institute for Environment … local communities and are accompanied by appropriate accountability mechanisms, and Apply sanctions that can undermine positive incentives …
News, 02 March 2015