In June of this year, a group of youth leaders and young conservationists in Zimbabwe participated in a webinar entitled Building a Wildlife Economy on the critical importance of rights in ensuring species conservation.
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Earth Negotiations Bulletin – A Reporting Service for Environment and Development Negotiations published the summary of the 69th Meeting of CITES Standing Committee.
Rural Community Leaders in Dialogue with Dr David Boyd
The following comments are respectfully submitted to Dr David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment in response to the questionnaire ‘Healthy Ecosystems and Human Rights: Sustaining the Foundations of Life’.
This article by Masego Madzwamuse and Liz Rihoy, was published 01 March 2019 in mmegi – an online and weekly print English language newspaper in Botswana. It is part of a number of opinion pieces on the Elephant Debate.
For decades Botswana has maintained an enviable international reputation as an ‘African miracle’ due in large part to its robust democracy, sound governance systems and representative and accountable
By Liz Rihoy and Malan Lindeque • Op-ed The Daily Maverick 14 April 2019
Two competing ideological narratives have emerged in African wildlife conservation. The one is based on so- called ‘compassionate conservation’, aligned with the mostly Western animal rights movement,
COVID-19: Holistic, equitable solutions are required to improve human and planetary health and reduce zoonotic pandemic risks
Dear Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Ms. Inger Andersen,
A recent letter in Science by Dickman et al about trophy hunting unleashed passionate debate in the Western media. These discussions have involved over 400 conservationists, academics and animal
