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Illegal wildlife trade (IWT)
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Can community rangers help tackle illegal wildlife trade?
Around the world, Indigenous Peoples and local communities are tackling wildlife crime including through working for, or establishing their own, community ranger or patrol programmes. But how effective are community-based rangers at reducing illegal wildlife trade?
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Community-based rangers – an effective approach to tackling illegal wildlife trade?
This webinar on 30 March 2021 showcased examples of community-based rangers in anti-poaching initiatives and discuss successes and challenges of this approach to tackling illegal wildlife trade
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Q&A: Communities combating illegal wildlife trade in East Africa
Olivia Wilson-Holt hears from three participants in a recent series of online learning sessions on wildlife conservation in East Africa about why engaging with communities is critical to combating illegal wildlife trade
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Online learning series helps practitioners engage communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade
Ever wanted to know how to engage communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade? IIED and partners are delivering seven online sessions to provide information on the application of the ‘Local Communities: First Line of Defence against Illegal Wildlife Trade’ initiative
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Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
A new community conservation policy is aiming to tackle poaching and reduce the number of human-wildlife conflicts in Uganda. George Owoyesigire, of the Uganda Wildlife Authority, explains
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Peer learning resources for Community Conservation Wardens in Uganda
The IIED-led project ‘Implementing park action plans for community engagement to tackle ille
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Q&A: answering your questions on community-based approaches to tackling poaching and illegal wildlife trade
Following last week’s webinar on community-based approaches to tackling poaching and illegal wildlife trade, the panellists address five key questions raised by attendees
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IIED webinar: Community-based approaches to tackling poaching and illegal wildlife trade
IIED hosted a webinar on 30 March 2020 to discuss community-based approaches to tackling illegal wildlife trade, with a focus on responding to human-wildlife conflict
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Who’s listening? Community voices on illegal wildlife trade
To effectively fight poaching and illegal wildlife trade (IWT), governments, NGOs and their partners across Latin America must listen to, engage with and provide incentives for the communities that live alongside wildlife
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IIED calls for more attention on effective community engagement in tackling illegal wildlife trade
IIED will argue more attention is needed to monitor action against commitments that have been made to tackle illegal wildlife trade at a major international meeting on protecting wildlife this week
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Women, wildlife and the workings of the CBD
Dilys Roe explains why international efforts to manage the world’s wildlife sustainably need input from the ground
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Q&A: Community-based natural resource management is the future
Brisetha Hendricks is treasurer of a small Namibian community conservancy and also chairs the Southern Kunene Conservancies Association. In this interview she discusses her work for communal conservancies and the challenges of being a young woman undertaking a senior role in Namibia's conservancy movement
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Beyond enforcement
Since mid-2014, IIED has co-organised a series of events to highlight the importance of local communities in efforts to tackle illegal wildlife trade, and the impact of heavy-handed approaches to law enforcement on these communities and on their incentives to engage in conservation
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First Line of Defence (FLoD)
The First Line of Defence (FLoD) initiative uses a theory of change approach to explore the design logic of programmes intended to engage communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade (IWT). It compares and contrasts the logic and assumptions of the designers and implementers of such initiatives with that of the communities at which they are targeted, with a view to improving project design and therefore effectiveness in tackling IWT.
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Turn up the volume: community voices on illegal wildlife trade
Communities living alongside wildlife are the most powerful force for tackling the illegal wildlife trade crisis; it’s time for governments to listen and act
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Learning and action for community engagement against wildlife crime
To successfully tackle poaching and the illegal wildlife trade, we need to move beyond law enforcement and develop best practice in involving communities in managing wildlife resources and taking action against wildlife crime
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New “People not poaching” platform supports communities as the first line of defence against IWT
Ahead of the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference in London (11-12 October) a unique interactive website is being launched today to foster learning and share experiences on community engagement in combating poaching and the illegal wildlife trade. “People Not Poaching: the Communities and IWT Learning Platform” will enable organisations and communities to share IWT successes and lessons
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Call for interest in participating: community voices on illegal wildlife trade
We’re inviting community representatives to express their interest in participating in a London workshop on how to effectively engage with the illegal wildlife trade at the local level. Closing date: 31 July, 2018
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New collection of publications on community engagement to tackle illegal wildlife trade
IIED and IUCN have published case studies, a policy briefing and a toolkit to help practitioners and stakeholders build community engagement in combatting illegal wildlife trade.
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To save Africa's wildlife, conservation needs a radical shake-up
To mark World Wildlife Day on 3 March, Dilys Roe and James Mayers highlight that, despite over 100 years of international investment in conservation in Africa, wildlife is in serious trouble. Clearly, conservation needs a rethink
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Wild life, wild lives: enough talking already
As conservation policymakers from across the globe meet in Geneva to discuss international wildlife trade, one item on the agenda is the role of local people in making decisions about such issues
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Park action plans: increasing community engagement in tackling wildlife crime
In Uganda many people poach because of human-wildlife conflict or lack of income earning opportunities. The Uganda Wildlife Authority has a community programme to address such problems, but it is hampered by limited capacity and support. At Murchison Falls National Park IIED and partners are piloting an approach that aims to increase community engagement in tackling wildlife crime by implementing park-level acton plans
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Tackling the illegal wildlife trade through community-based approaches: building evidence on what works
Local communities are the first line of defence in tackling the illegal wildlife trade. But there's little information on initiatives involving local people. IIED's new database aims to gather more evidence on approaches that work, those that don't – and why
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IUCN seeks proposals for involving indigenous communities in combating the illegal wildlife trade
Call for proposals for a regional workshop to be held in Vietnam on how to engage Indigenous Peoples and local communities as active partners in protecting wildlife against the illegal wildlife trade
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Submissions sought for new online wildlife crime resource
Engaging communities in tackling wildlife crime – IIED is inviting submissions of case studies following the launch of a new online database
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New report: local people are crucial to combating illegal wildlife trade
A new report on combating the illegal trade in wildlife highlights the vital importance – and complexities – of involving indigenous people and local communities in conservation efforts. The report, entitled 'Beyond enforcement: involving indigenous peoples and local communities in combating illegal wildlife trade', documents a workshop in Limbe, Cameroon, in February 2016 which brought together practitioners, government officials and researchers from 12 countries to discuss how to combat illegal wildlife trade
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Regional workshop: exploring community-based efforts to tackle illegal wildlife trade in West/Central Africa
IIED and partners are this week hosting a workshop in Cameroon on how to combat illegal wildlife trade (IWT)
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How can we engage communities to help reduce illegal wildlife trade?
Engaging local communities is recognised as a key approach to tackling the illegal wildlife trade. But a key problem remains: deciding what to do, and how to do it
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RIP Cecil the lion – what will be his legacy? And who should decide?
Outrage over the death of Cecil the lion has led to calls for a ban on trophy hunting, but would this have the desired results?
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Wildlife crime and poverty: what are the links?
Is poverty a driver of wildlife crime? What impacts does wildlife crime have on poor people? And what impacts do responses to wildlife crime have on poor people? A new report looks for answers
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Community-led solutions: key force in tackling wildlife crime
Researchers, community representatives, UN and government officials and NGOs have issued a set of recommendations on engaging communities in combating the illegal wildlife trade
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Innovative approaches to tackling wildlife crime on the frontlines
Ground-breaking community-led approaches to combating wildlife crime around the world will be shared at an international symposium taking place in Muldersdrift near Johannesburg from 26-28 February, attended by researchers, community groups, government officials, UN agencies and NGOs. The findings will be taken to the high level wildlife conference in Kasane, Botswana in March
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Symposium examines how communities can be helped to combat wildlife crime
Local communities can play a crucial role in preventing wildlife crime. An international symposium looked at how government and institutions can support communities in combating the growing problem of the illegal trade in wildlife.
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Wildlife crime and local communities
IIED believes that efforts to tackle wildlife crime are only going to be effective in the long term if they involve the local people who live alongside wildlife
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IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
The full programme of IIED activity at this year's World Parks Congress, including news, events, blogs and updates
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Conservation works better with social justice
Poverty threatens wildlife conservation despite widespread efforts to integrate conservation and development so that local communities benefit. So what's going wrong? Our research suggests it's social justice that's missing.
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How best to deal with wildlife crime while protecting the poor?
A new project will explore the different reasons people commit wildlife crimes and suggest ways governments can respond without harming the poorest communities
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Building capacity for pro-poor responses to wildlife crime in Uganda
A project to build capacity for pro-poor responses in Uganda through learning more about the interactions between wildlife crime and poverty
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China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges
By increasing Chinese reporting on Africa, its public can learn about the environmental and development challenges associated with Chinese investment and consumption decisions
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Wanted: Community wildlife conservation success stories
Ensuring local communities benefit from wildlife is key to successful conservation in the long term and can also help to fight the illegal wildlife trade. Share your community success stories with us on World Wildlife Day.
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International push to tackle illegal wildlife trade risks missing potential of sustainable use
As UK Prime Minister David Cameron prepares to host an international conference to tackle the booming illegal transnational trade in wildlife, experts welcome the new push to address this enduring problem but warn that efforts could fail without appropriate incentives for local people's involvement.
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A brief history of biodiversity at IIED
IIED’s work on biodiversity dates back over 25 years – although it has not always been labelled as such.
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Introduction to conservation, communities and equity
Conservation is critical to protecting nature and biodiversity. But many conservation interventions have negative impacts on local people. IIED and partners are helping to build capacity to understand and implement equitable conservation activities and to enhance community voice in national and international conservation policymaking
