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Community conservation areas as bulwarks against climate change
Community action is at the heart of several connectivity conservation initiatives in Australia that aim to protect biodiversity, and strengthen the resilience of ecosystems so that they can survive and adapt to climate change and other threats. …
21 May 2010 | News story
Community Conservation in Practice Workshop, Tofino, B.C., Canada, May 2010
The Global Diversity Fund (GDF), IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) co-sponsored a workshop on ‘ Community Conservation in Practice ' (CCIP) from 6 – 8 May 2010, in Tofino, British Columbia. …
21 May 2010 | News story
Project Ecotrad
CEESP member Sylvie Blangy shares her work on an Inuit/Saami comparative study on the impact of climate change on traditional livelihoods. This report is in French. …
21 May 2010 | News story
Joint PAEL-TILCEPA workshop on Protected Areas Management Evaluation and Social Assessment of Protected Areas
The Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP) and the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) share a Strategic Direction on Governance, Communities, Equity and Livelihood Rights in Relation to Protected Areas which deals with social issues pertaining to Protected Areas. …
21 May 2010 | News story
REDD and Communities Task Force calls for case studies on ICCAs and the “underlying causes of forest conservation”
The REDD and Communities Task Force of CEESP and the Global Forest Coalition have started a new initiative to map, document and promote successful examples of Indigenous and non-Indigenous community-driven forest conservation and restoration, and the incentive systems and policy frameworks that have made them work. …
21 May 2010 | News story
About Community Governance: III Mesoamerican Congress on Protected Areas (Merida, Yucatan)
On March 7-12, 2010, more than 800 Mesoamerican participants, together with a number of researchers and scholars from around the world, discussed about the main experiences on protected areas management in the region. …
21 May 2010 | News story
Participatory Video Validates Geo-tagging on Mining Threats
A field update from the ALDAW Network (Ancestral Land/Domain Watch) May 2010 …
21 May 2010 | News story
TGER "Video Voices" Indigenous Youth Workshop, Gran Chaco, Bolivia
TGER continues to lead CEESP "Video Voices" work encouraging rural people to take advantage of new opportunities of modern technologies and communications media to bring their voices and ideas about biodiversity and sustainable development to global debates via videos posted on the internet. A training workshop was held in Villa Montes, Bolivia, in the Gran Chaco-- a high biodiversity region that includes the world´s largest dry forest. …
21 May 2010 | News story
New Indigenous Rights Network in Australia
Despite the disappointment that a national Human Rights Act has been relegated to the Australian Government's back-burner, Indigenous Australians are getting on with advocating and promoting their human rights. …
21 May 2010 | News story
Call for Papers - Policy Matters: Issue 18
Call for Papers - POLICY MATTERS: ISSUE 18 “Rights-based Approaches to Conservation: Ensuring the Local Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy” Guest Editors: Kabir Bavikatte, Harry Jonas, and Holly Shrumm (Natural Justice: Lawyers for Communities and the Environment) …
24 Feb 2010 | News story
