Natural resource management

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Illegal wildlife trade (IWT)

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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

Screengrab of the homepage of the People Not Poaching website

New “People not poaching” platform supports communities as the first line of defence against IWT

News, 11 October 2018

An elephant in Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park. Efforts to combat illegal trade in high-value commodities such as tusks depend largely on the support of local communities.(Photo: Jurriaan Persyn, Creative Commons via Flickr)

New collection of publications on community engagement to tackle illegal wildlife trade

News, 09 May 2018

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

Living in close proximity to wildlife is not a neutral-impact relationship (Photo: Creative Commons, via Pixaby)

Wild life, wild lives: enough talking already

Insight, 27 November 2017

A hippo in Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda. IIED is helping the Uganda Wildlife Authority to address wildlife crime through community engagement (Photo: Mirko Eggert, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Park action plans: increasing community engagement in tackling wildlife crime

Archived Project

Signs welcome visitors to the Sunderban Tiger Reserve in India. Wandering tigers still kill humans in the region, but this reserve generates employment and ecosystem benefits and other income for local people (Rick Hobson, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Tackling the illegal wildlife trade through community-based approaches: building evidence on what works

Insight, 20 January 2017

Rhinos in the Serengeti National Park. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates that poachers killed at least 1,338 rhinos across Africa in 2015 (Photo: Nicholas Maxim, Creative Commons via Flickr)

New report: local people are crucial to combating illegal wildlife trade

News, 03 August 2016

Wildlife can be a key asset for rural communities in Africa, providing a foundation for economic development through tourism (Photo: Paolo, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Regional workshop: exploring community-based efforts to tackle illegal wildlife trade in West/Central Africa

News, 23 February 2016

Turtle hatchlings, targeted by the illegal wildlife trade, are pictured on a beach (Photo: Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association)

How can we engage communities to help reduce illegal wildlife trade?

Insight, 03 September 2015

Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

RIP Cecil the lion – what will be his legacy? And who should decide?

Insight, 31 July 2015

Hippos are poached at Queen Elizabeth National Park for food, to generate income, and for cultural purposes such as to improve fertility (Photo: Tiziana Zoccheddu)

Wildlife crime and poverty: what are the links?

Insight, 13 May 2015

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

News, 02 March 2015

Ploughshare and radiated tortoises that have been seized in Bangkok will be among the case studies presented at a wildlife crime symposium in South Africa (Photo: Panjit Tansom/TRAFFIC)

Symposium examines how communities can be helped to combat wildlife crime

News, 20 February 2015

Community engagement in preventin pangolin poaching in Nepal (Photo: Ambika Prasad Khatiwada)

Wildlife crime and local communities

Article

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

Event on 12 November 2014

A family guards their crops from wild animals on the boundary of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Photo: Mariel Harrison)

Conservation works better with social justice

Insight, 20 August 2014

Captain Benjamin Kalimutima Lulimba finds the skull of an elephant recently killed by poachers who ripped out its tusks. Province Orientale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Photo: Matchbox Media Collective)

How best to deal with wildlife crime while protecting the poor?

Insight, 01 August 2014

A Chinese journalist interviews fellow journalists in Kenya (Photo: YiDe Media)

China-Africa relations: Fresh perspectives from Chinese journalists on environmental challenges

Insight, 02 May 2014

Community-based conservation has worked for black rhinos (Photo: Park Street Pro via http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Wanted: Community wildlife conservation success stories

Insight, 03 March 2014

Trafficking of wildlife, driven by escalating demand for products such as elephant ivory, is a booming market worth US$19bn a year (Photo: Nonprofit Organizations via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

International push to tackle illegal wildlife trade risks missing potential of sustainable use

News, 11 February 2014

Biodiversity illustration

A brief history of biodiversity at IIED

Article, 16 August 2013

Prioritising positive and negative social impacts of the protected area at Rwenzori Mountain National Park, Uganda (Photo: Rob Small)

Introduction to conservation, communities and equity

Article

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