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Community Leaders Network
September 5, 2022

A Report on The Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa (CLN)’s participation at the Inaugural IUCN African Protected Areas Congress (APAC)

“Community Voices Were Heard”

The Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa sent a delegation of 29 members to the inaugural

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in Blog / Community Voices / IPLC Rights / Resources
March 1, 2022February 23, 2023

What do You Know about Conservation and Human Rights?

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in IPLC Rights / Publications / Rights, Resources & Livelihoods
September 5, 2021March 7, 2022

Rights-based approaches: a powerful way of promoting equitable governance

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).

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in Blog / IPLC Rights
September 4, 2021February 27, 2022

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 IUCN WCC 3-11 September 2021 Congress by delegates from both organisations.

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in Advocacy Activities / Blog / IPLC Rights / Rights, Resources & Livelihoods / Women and Conservation
Community Leaders Network
August 4, 2021February 26, 2022

Conservation in the Mahenye Royal Household – the Birth of CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe

by Liberty Chauke, CLN member

I was seated listening to the melodious and whistling sounds of birds in the forest. Memories of childhood popped in and took me down memory lane. I grew up in the most respected royal family in

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in Blog / CBNRM / Community Voices / IPLC Rights / Zimbabwe
July 30, 2021April 8, 2024

Resource Africa’s position paper affirms the rights of rural communities under the Nagoya Protocol

The Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) has just been released for comment. By acting now, African countries can work together to ensure that the GBF explicitly includes the sustainable use

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in Advocacy Activities / Blog / IPLC Rights / Nagoya Protocol
Community Leaders Network
July 28, 2021February 27, 2022

Indigenous Rooibos tea farmers seek a fairer deal by Joseph Cotterill, Financial Times 

In an article published on July 27, Financial Times correspondent, Joseph Cotterill reports on one of the Khoi and San communities in South Africa’s

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in Blog / Community Voices / Indigenous & Traditional Knowledge Systems / IPLC Rights / Nagoya Protocol
June 29, 2021March 8, 2022

CLN Press Release: UK Charity raises funds at expense of Africans

As the UK parliament consider bans on hunting trophy imports, community leaders representing millions of rural Africans have launched an official complaint against one of the key players in the campaigns against trophy hunting.

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in Advocacy Activities / Blog / IPLC Rights / Rights, Resources & Livelihoods / Sustainable Use / Trophy Hunting
June 11, 2021April 8, 2024

Is the notion of sustainable use of biodiversity a legal principle of international law?

Sustainable use is a functional concept to mediate the tension between human being survival and the need for conservation of biodiversity.

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in Biodiversity & Conservation / Blog / CBNRM / IPLC Rights / Nagoya Protocol
June 8, 2021March 8, 2022

Endangered: Small scale fishermen and the African penguin? by Takdeera Lewis

The 2021 theme for World Oceans Day is The Ocean: Life and Livelihoods. With marine resources especially important for the coastal communities in Africa, the ocean is vital for countless livelihoods on the continent and throughout the globe.

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