Resource Africa supports rural African community efforts to secure their rights to access and use their natural resources in order to sustain their livelihoods. We help to build strong platforms for collaboration, knowledge, skills sharing, and joint advocacy to ensure community voices are heard in debates that materially affect their lives.
We believe that when rights are upheld and incentives for conservation are provided to those who live with wildlife there will be positive conservation outcomes benefitting people and nature.
Resource Africa and Community Leaders Network representatives attended the inaugural IUCN Africa Protected and Conserved Areas Congress (APAC) in Kigali, Rwanda, from July 18–23, 2022. 2400 participants from 53 African and 27 other countries participated at the Congress.
The IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) is the first ever continent-wide gathering of African leaders, citizens, and interest groups to discuss the role of protected areas in conserving nature, safeguarding Africa’s iconic wildlife, delivering vital life-supporting ecosystem services, promoting sustainable development while conserving Africa’s cultural heritage and traditions.
During a closing plenary, representatives of youth and Indigenous Peoples groups delivered statements, participants in the Congress pledged measures to address the crises such as biodiversity and climate change, and to support custodians of nature and address injustices experienced by indigenous communities.
Watch Dr. Rodger’s Lubilo’s presentation the on proposed anti-hunting laws in the UK and Europe that ignore the rights of millions of poor, rural Africans to conserve wildlife on their lands, and threaten their livelihoods. The briefing took place virtually on the 7th of April 2022.
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MEDIA RELEASE: Animal protectionists trying to undermine the South African Constitution by influencing key government White Paper 21 September 2022 For Immediate Release Animal protectionists
Community conservation supported by global report on the sustainable use of wildlife by Gail Thomson The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
It’s time to center African people in the conservation agenda – Mongabay Commentary by Gail thomson The African Protected Areas Congress was launched to position
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It’s a form of colonialism to tell us Africans what to do with our wildlife, writes Maxi Pia Louis, Community Leaders Network “As a parliamentary
Resource Africa (RA) recently launched a policy position paper entitled Indigenous Flora and Fauna, African Resources for African People, wherein we argued for the inclusion of the sustainable use of wildlife into the UN Convention of Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Nagoya Protocol.
Recent media coverage about conservation, COVID19, biodiversity, sustainable use, CBNRM, indigenous and local community rights.
Promoting Community Conservation at CoP15 in Montreal By Eva Krafczyk Resource Africa actively participated in the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 15 th Conference
Shooting or sparing? No consensus on how to deal with elephants – Die Welt, Germany By Eva Krafczyk With elephants, it gets emotional. Some want
How to keep environmental conservation from doing more harm than good – landscape News In Africa, “colonial conservation” has become a human rights issue by
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