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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