Tag:Local communities

Conservation

Achieving harmonious future between elephants and people hinges on fostering strong connections with local communities – Kumar

The Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) friend of the month for April 2024 is Meha Kumar, who works as a researcher at Save the Elephants (STE),...

Michael Simire - April 23, 2024

Gender

Local communities should have power over resources – Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation says that it is engaging local communities to understand what it means to be custodian of the mineral resources in their...

Michael Simire - May 10, 2023

Cover

COP15: Indigenous peoples, local communities celebrate deal on nature, seek collaborations to implement framework

Following two weeks of often tense negotiations of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), in Montreal, Canada, the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB)...

Michael Simire - December 19, 2022

Sustainable Devpt

Engaging local communities for an enabling environment

In this treatise he presented recently in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nnimmo Bassey of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) explores the dynamics of...

admin - November 7, 2015

Human Settlement

Liberia land grants threaten local communities’ wellbeing

Large-scale land grants totalling more than 1.5 million acres1 to Sime Darby2 and Golden Veroleum3 for oil palm and rubber plantations jeopardizes land rights...

Michael Simire - September 24, 2012