A group of more than 50 community leaders, representing millions of people across southern Africa, have urged UK-based celebrities to stop using their influence to undermine the human rights of impoverished people and which will jeopardise wildlife conservation in the region. Watch the video.
Resource Africa (RA) recently launched a policy position paper entitled Indigenous Flora and Fauna, African Resources for African People, wherein we argued for the inclusion of the sustainable use of wildlife into the UN Convention of Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Nagoya Protocol.
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.
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.
Misinformation ignores African voices and right to thrive, not just survive – states the Community Leaders Network of southern Africa.
In a letter to Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the Community Leaders Network (CLN) challenges his calls to supporters and UK legislators to ban trophy imports.
Imagine an approach to wildlife conservation that allows wildlife populations to flourish, respects the rights of local and indigenous peoples to determine their own future, and helps reduce poverty and inequality.
ADVANCING RIGHTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (ARISA) Webinar: The Impact of Natural Resource Management Laws and Policies on Indigenous Peoples Rights, Livelihoods, and Culture.
Advocates for human rights and conservation in Africa have warned that bans on trophy hunting imports from Africa could have catastrophic effects on people and communities already devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this open letter, Resource Africa challenges the German Green Party Alliance.