Rights Based Conservation News Today

An 8-month-old chimpanzee rescued in southern Cameroon's Campo Ma'an landscape during a routine anti-poaching patrol signals the impact of AWF's support.

Human rights-based conservation is key to protecting biodiversity: Study by Liz Kimbrough on 23 December 2020 To slow the rapid loss of global biodiversity, many countries have made commitments to protect and conserve large areas of land in the coming decades, but the fate of the Indigenous peoples, local communities and Afro-descendants who live on these lands remains unclear. Past approaches to creating protected areas have involved relocating people or banning access and traditional use of...