Natural resource management

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Community conservation

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Preview of 17455IIED.pdf

Local communities: the overlooked first line of defence for wildlife

Publication, 01 May 2018

Preview of 14672IIED.pdf

Local communities: First Line of Defence against illegal wildlife trade (FLoD) Guidance for implementing the FLoD methodology

Publication, 01 March 2018

Preview of 17715IIED.pdf

Tackling the illegal wildlife trade: promises made, progress reported

Publication, 01 August 2019

Two elephants.

Online learning series helps practitioners engage communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade

News, 12 October 2020

A group of men and women gathered under some trees

Impacts of trophy hunting – lessons from the hunting ban in Botswana

Active Project

A parrot looking out of a cardboard box in a shopping bag

IIED calls for more attention on effective community engagement in tackling illegal wildlife trade

News, 15 August 2019

A volunteer health and conservation trainer gives a group talk to her community (Photo: Conservation Through Public Health)

Can improving health reduce threats to nature conservation?

Archived Project

Four elephants roam the plain on the Maasai Mara, Kenya

Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?

Insight, 27 March 2019

Members of Namibia's Marinefluss Conservancy hope their remote community will benefit from joint ventures with tourist enterprises (Photo: Steve Felton, WWF via USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD

Insight, 20 November 2018

Brisetha Hendricks talking to conservancy members. As well as rhino, the Uibasen Twyfelfontein Conservancy has elephants, leopards, mountain zebras, kudu, gemsbok, ostrich, springbok, steenbok, duiker and klipspringer (Photo: Brisetha Hendricks)

Q&A: Community-based natural resource management is the future

Article, 15 November 2018

Local villagers receive wildlife training in the Mbarang'andu Wildlife Management Area in Tanzania, which incorporates seven villages. (Photo: WWF/USAID Biodiversity & Forestry, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management

Article

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IIED publishes updated guide to social assessment for protected areas

News, 14 November 2018

Community scouts on patrol in the Greater Kilimajaro Landscape (Photo: African Wildlife Foundation)

Beyond enforcement

Active Project

Members of the Olderkesi Conservancy in Kenya scoring strategies for engaging communities in tackling IWT for effectiveness (Photo: Micah Conway)

First Line of Defence (FLoD)

Active Project

An elephant feeds on Acacia trees in Kenya's Ol Kinyei Conservancy. The privately managed conservancy offers employment and training to local communities (Photo: Stuart Price/Make it Kenya Photo, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Turn up the volume: community voices on illegal wildlife trade

Insight, 31 October 2018

A man peers through the lens of a camera, while receiving advice from his colleague, another ranger

Learning and action for community engagement against wildlife crime

Active Project

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

Insight, 03 March 2018

A stray ape rescued by Limbe Wildlife Centre in South West Cameroon (Photo: Stanley Dinsi)

TV documentary highlights conservation and poverty links in Cameroon

Article, 13 April 2016

Elephants in front of Mount Kilimanjaro. The blurring of fact and fiction, such as claims trophy hunting is driving declines of endangered species such as elephants, is fuelling a debate that could do more harm than good for conservation and for poor people (Photo: Amoghavarsha, via Google licence)

Trophy hunting under fire

Insight, 11 April 2016

Kenya: Community-based marine area holds some important lessons for policy makers

Insight, 14 November 2011

Illustration showing a Java rhino

Harnessing carbon finance to arrest deforestation: saving the Javan rhinoceros

Archived Project

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Biodiversity and conservation

Illegal wildlife trade (IWT)

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