Please download Position Paper on CITES CoP19 here: Position paper for CITES final
Podcasts
Beneath the Baobab is a new podcast series about Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM). Produced by one of our partners, JAMMA International, Beneath the Baobab is hosted by wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan. In these cutting-edge conversations about conservation work led by communities around the world, you will hear from indigenous peoples and local communities who are exercising their rights to do innovative work as custodians of resources for generations. The future for wildlife and endangered species can be positive, if we are all prepared to listen. Join Gordon and his guests at Beneath the Baobab for stories of hope as well as brilliant, radical and innovative ideas for solving the problems faced by humans and wildlife.
Episode 1
Supporting Communities to Lead Conservation – Elephants and Ecotourism.
Episode 2
Living with predators – how lions and people can thrive in a shared landscape.
Episode 3
Preventing Lion and Elephant Conflict and Supporting Alternative Livelihoods.
CLN in the Media
Former colonial powers seeking to pass laws that threaten the rights and livelihoods of rural African communities and their wildlife, need to consider this impact and hear what Africans have to say about it first.
As a form of recognition for the incredible social, economic and environmental milestones that Africa has overseen in the past, Africa Day is commemorated on this day (25 May)
Host Dr. Moreangels Mbizah chats with Dr Shlock Muyengwa, about origins, the principles and practice of community based natural resource management or CBNRM in Africa.
The Community Leaders Network recently sent a complaint to the Charity Commission in the UK about certain public campaigns against conservation hunting in Africa.
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.
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