CEESP News: by Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba*
As more and more terrestrial and marine regions come under protected area status, the idea of community-based conservation becomes鈥
The environmental law community recently learned of the passing of one of our preeminent scholars, Professor Charles Odidi Okidi. As a champion for nature, Prof. Okidi was聽among a select group of visionaries appointed as honorary WCEL members, in recognition of their outstanding lifelong鈥
The Stabilising Land Use project sought to improve the governance of natural resources for communities around protected areas in six landscapes across four countries in Africa. At the conclusion of the project, we checked back in with the project teams and community鈥
Grants to the total value of 684鈥461 EUR have been awarded to four organisations in Madagascar to address biodiversity conservation needs in line with national policy and the priorities of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD).
The Government of Rwanda will in March 2022 host the inaugural 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Africa Protected Areas Congress (APAC) to discuss conservation of the continent鈥檚 protected areas. This comes after the relaunch of APAC in Kigali, Rwanda on 20th April 2021.
A new tool 鈥 the Species Threat Abatement and Recovery metric 鈥 promises to help practitioners assess the potential for conserving threatened biodiversity, and set site scale or landscape scale targets compatible with the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Strategy.鈥
In the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), there are no female chiefs or heads of wards across the 40 villages in Walungu. The low level of representation in these leadership spaces means that women face an uphill battle when it comes to accessing land rights.
Could the Rule of Law be the solution?
In line with the African black rhinoceros, the African forest elephant is now listed as Critically Endangered on the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Red List of Threatened Species. The significant population decline over the past decades is not only caused by the loss of鈥
The 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 Programme on African Protected Areas & Conservation is launching a new MOOC on Marine protected areas (MPAs). This new course will complement other courses on protected areas already available, such as Protected areas management in Africa, Ecological鈥
CEESP News: by Fikret Berkes,聽University of Manitoba's Natural Resources Institute
The book is a synthesis of community-based conservation theory and practice, written as a textbook for university students and for international conservation practitioners. Berkes argues that biodiversity鈥