ADVANCING RIGHTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (ARISA) Webinar: The Impact of Natural Resource Management Laws and Policies on Indigenous Peoples Rights, Livelihoods, and Culture.
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
Listen to this clip of the Community Leaders Network (CLN) statement delivered by CLN Coordinator, Ms. Maxi Pia Louis,
In the latest of Resource Africa’s series Let Africans Decide video series, Dr. Moreangels Mbizah, a member of the Community Leaders Network, reflects on her journey in wildlife conservation – from Zimbabwe’s Lowveld to Oxford University and back – and emphasises the need for diverse approaches
In this groundbreaking video, community leaders speaking on behalf of millions of people from eight southern African countries call for immediate action to address continuing injustices preventing people in southern Africa from exercising their rights to manage and conserve the wildlife on their land.
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This episode of Into The Wild podcast features three Namibians, among them Namibian Association of CBNRM Support Organisations (NACSO) director Maxi Louis whose organisation supports communities
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.
Mr Masango, from the village of Mahenye in South East Zimbabwe’s Manicaland Province, tells his story of how, over the years, he embraced the idea of safari hunting as a means of food and income