The latest @PCLG_IIED digest is out! This edition has 56 new journal articles on community-based #forest management, governance, equity, culture & #conservation, tourism, human #wildlife conflict plus more, catch up here ->

Reflections, Stories and Struggles against the violence of the Green Economy - new bulletin from @WorldRainforest ->

Many low-income communities in India face serious burdens because the Wildlife Act prohibits killing certain wild species. The challenge is to reform #wildlife management in a practical way while keeping it in line with our unique values on animal life ->

New report from @wef puts forward a set of principles and practices to inform how investors should think and what investors should do to engage Indigenous peoples and their knowledge in #conservation and restoration of landscapes ->

"The region also continues to suffer from violence linked to land grabs, #deforestation and illegal mining that have worsened since the completion of the dam". Dammed, now mined: Indigenous Brazilians fight for the Xingu River’s future via @mongabay ->

RT @IIED: DOWNLOAD: SAGE & its early contributions to improvements in governance of area-based conservation --> SA….

RT @ArcusGreatApes: The forests of Central Africa have faced an unprecedented #biodiversity loss in recent years, and the true environmenta….

"In Intag, communities are self-defined administrative units, whose leader is nominated by its residents. It’s up to each community to decide how to best protect #forests." In Ecuador, communities protecting a ‘terrestrial coral reef’ face a mining giant

RT @guardian: ‘It’s becoming a war zone’: Tanzania’s Maasai speak out on ‘forced’ removals

RT @a_r_whittaker: Care about biodiversity conservation? Take 5 and read this. Equity for indigenous peoples and local communities must be….

‘Funai is ours’: Brazil’s Indigenous affairs agency is reclaimed under Lula via @mongabay ->

RT @ICCS_updates: Contribute to research on #wildmeat interventions in #SEAsia!. If you are/have been involved in the design and implementa….

"As the canopy returns to places that were once deforested, so does the #wildlife & by farming in a way that maintains the plants, trees & fungal networks of this ecosystem, coffee growers are fuelling a natural engine for storing climate-warming carbon."

"Residents of a landless workers’ settlement in Anapu, Pará state, in Brazil’s Amazon region, accuse the federal government of favoring large landowners, land-grabbers and corporations at the expense of poor and landless peasants." Via @mongabay

"Our work has helped improve the health & wellbeing of the local community members living around Bwindi Impenetrable National Park &, in so doing, reduced the threat of disease transmission to the #gorillas through the One Health approach." .@DoctorGladys

Urao is the only brackish continental lagoon in Latin America, significant for its minerals and the livelihoods it supports, but threatened by encroaching development in the Venezuelan state of Mérida via @mongabay ->

RT @sthlmresilience: VACANCY: We are looking for a research assistant to work with #gender in #conservation in the Global South. Is this….

Sacred Groves: How the Spiritual Connection Helps Protect Nature via @YaleE360 ->

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"The roughly 900 Indigenous residents who live here say the influx of outsiders is threatening the #forest resources they rely on, putting their traditional way of life at risk." Via @mongabay ->