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Trophy hunters in Tajikistan are the unlikely saviours of the snow leopard – The Guardian

Resource Africa Apr 21, 2022 0 Comments

Trophy hunters in Tajikistan are the unlikely saviours of the snow leopard - The Guardian UK “We have very few other sources of income here – the benefits to the community are enormous. People value our wildlife now." Village Headman, Tajikistan In Tajikistan, a well-managed trophy-hunting programme has proved that this community conservation model generates incentives and revenue to...

Divergent views on trophy hunting in Africa, and what this may mean for research and policy

Resource Africa Sep 21, 2021 0 Comments

Divergent views on trophy hunting in Africa, and what this may mean for research and policy - article by Shaya van Houdt, Richard P. Brown, Thomas C. Wanger, Wayne Twine, Richard Fynn, Kenneth Uiseb, Rosie Cooney, Lochran W. Traill An article that appeared on September 14, 2021 in the scientific journal Conservation Letters, authors Shaya van Houdt et al published the findings of an...

IUCN WCC 3-11 September 2021: Transformative Change for Nature and People

Resource Africa Sep 04, 2021 0 Comments

IUCN WCC 3-11 September 2021: Transformative Change for Nature and People Resource Africa and the Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa will be represented at the Congress by delegates from both organizations. Resource Africa and the Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa will be represented at the Congress by delegates from both organizations.Mission: to create awareness of the CLN...

Mongabay: Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation Q&A with Colleen Beg

Resource Africa Jun 29, 2021 0 Comments

Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation From Mongabay.com - Rhett A Butler in conversation with Colleen Begg In a Q&A with Colleen Begg, who co-founded both the Niassa Carnivore Project in Mozambique and Women for the Environment, Africa, Begg talks about discrimination, colonial legacy, privilege, and power dynamics in conservation. To me conservation really is one of the last...

Complementary benefits of tourism and hunting to communal conservancies in Namibia – Conservation Biology. Authors: Naidoo et al. 2016

Resource Africa Jan 17, 2021 0 Comments

The Impacts of Conservation and Militarization on Indigenous Peoples: A Southern African San Perspective – Human Nature Robert K. Hitchcock 2019-03

Resource Africa Jan 11, 2021 0 Comments

Communities are delivering conservation and wildlife recoveries – Africa Geographic. Author Fred Nelson 2020-01

Resource Africa Dec 10, 2020 0 Comments

Looking beyond hunting and tourism for community benefits – Luc Hoffman Institute. Author: Melissa de Kock. 10.2019

Resource Africa Jun 23, 2020 0 Comments

In her 'thought piece' entitled Looking beyond hunting and tourism for community benefits published in October 2019 by Luc Hoffman Institute , Melissa de Kock (WWF-Norway, Senior Advisor: Conservation, Climate and Communities) states that for community based conservation to evolve beyond the existing models based on tourism and hunting, initiatives such as those taken up jointly by Luc Hoffman...