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First Draft of Global Biodiversity Framework Identifies Four Goals for 2050

Resource Africa April 04, 2022 0 Comments

First Draft of Global Biodiversity Framework Identifies Four Goals for 2050 The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has published the first draft of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.This first draft will adopt a framework as a stepping stone towards the 2050 Vision of “Living in harmony with nature”, and will undergo further refinement and negotiation...

Rights-based approaches are a powerful way of promoting equitable governance: IIED Natural Resources Group

Resource Africa September 05, 2021 0 Comments

Rights-based approaches are a powerful way of promoting equitable governance IIED Natural Resources Group IIED Briefing September 2021: The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) currently being negotiated seeks to transform society’s relationship with biodiversity, including a much bigger role for protected and conserved areas (PCAs). This briefing demonstrates that transformative...

An Assessment of Local People’s Support to Private Wildlife Conservation: A Case of Save Valley Conservancy and Fringe Communities, Zimbabwe – Hindawi 2019. Authors: Matseketsa et al.

Resource Africa February 22, 2021 0 Comments

Building support for protected areas using a “One Health” perspective. Authors: Osofsky et al 2020

Resource Africa January 11, 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 January 11, 2021 0 Comments

CASE STUDY: Navigating community conservancies and institutional complexities in Namibia Lubilo et al. Extract from “Natural Resources, Tourism and Community Livelihoods in Southern Africa Challenges of Sustainable Development” Edited by Stone, Lenao and Moswete 2020

Resource Africa December 10, 2020 0 Comments

Area-based Conservation in the 21st Century

Resource Africa October 16, 2020 0 Comments

In the Area-based Conservation in the 21st Century "Adequate protection of the world’s biodiversity will require conservation areas in the right places, the involvement of indigenous peoples and local communities in decision-making and management, ecologically connectivity between protected areas, and much more financing."In an article in Mongabay, writer Liz Kimbrough reports that area-based...

Humans aren’t the Virus

Resource Africa May 23, 2020 0 Comments

“There have been many plagues in the world as there have been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equally unprepared.” - Albert Camus From Counterpunch by FIORE LONGO APRIL 24, 2020 It’s time for a confession. Not long ago, I was sitting on the floor in a remote part of India and was given a plate of rice and meat. As a daughter of the Western world, I...