Items tagged:
Community conservation
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Impacts of trophy hunting – lessons from the hunting ban in Botswana
Trophy hunting has played a role in conservation in Africa for decades but calls to ban it are growing. What this would mean for wildlife, ecosystems and local communities is unclear. To ensure such decisions do not have unintended consequences, we need better understanding of what the impacts might be
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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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Can improving health reduce threats to nature conservation?
IIED supported a project in Uganda that sought to understand the links between supporting community health and conserving Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and its mountain gorillas
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Covering elephant tracks: can insurance compensate farmers for wildlife damage?
A new IIED-led project in Kenya and Sri Lanka is exploring whether insurance schemes can compensate women and men small-scale farmers for crop and property damage caused by human-wildlife conflict, primarily from elephants
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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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Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management
Conservation in Africa is failing. Despite a growth in formal protected areas, wildlife populations are declining. Illegal wildlife trade is a contributing factor but masks wider issues of land conversion, corruption and regressive policies that fail to make wildlife an economically viable land use option for local people
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IIED publishes updated guide to social assessment for protected areas
The new, expanded second edition incorporates practical learning from sites in five countries and strengthens focus on governance and equity
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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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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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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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TV documentary highlights conservation and poverty links in Cameroon
Making a TV documentary about great ape conservation allowed the PCLG project in Cameroon to focus attention on the impacts on local communities
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Trophy hunting under fire
Cecil the Lion's legacy now extends to princes and politicians, but shouldn't the poor also have a say
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Kenya: Community-based marine area holds some important lessons for policy makers
On a white sandy beach in a small fishing village called Kuruwitu in eastern Kenya a ground-breaking project that aimed to protect marine biodiversity and improve livelihoods was launched in 2005. Six years on what obstacles has it encountered and what lessons can be learned?
