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CEESP Chair Aroha Mead will be a keynote speaker at the International Indigenous Development Research Conference

CEESP Chair Aroha Mead will be a keynote speaker at the International Indigenous Development Research Conference in Auckland, NZ, 27-30 June 2012. …  

09 May 2012 | News story
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Innovation for 21st Century Conservation: Science informing Policy in Australia

The Australian Committee of IUCN with partners organized a workshop in March 2012 to discuss several topics related to Innovation in Conservation. …  

09 May 2012 | News story
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CEESP Youth Leadership Team (YLT) member Shalini Dhyani (India) attends Planet Under Pressure 2012

CEESP Youth Leadership Team (YLT) member Shalini Dhyani from India attended Planet Under Pressure 2012 in Excel, London United Kingdom from 25 th -29 th March, 2012. Shalini presented her work on “ Utility of fodder banks for reducing impacts anthropogenic pressure and climatic changes from forests of Western Himalaya” under the Session Sustainable Society dedicated to the theme Options and opportunities. …  

09 May 2012 | News story
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A Review of the Impact of IUCN Resolutions on International Conservation Efforts

IUCN has just released a new publication “A Review of the Impact of IUCN Resolutions on International Conservation Efforts”. The main intention of this document is to give to the general public an overview of the importance of the IUCN World Conservation Congresses and General Assemblies, highlighting some of the major impacts and influences that Congress Resolutions have had on conservation. …  

09 May 2012 | News story
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Kanyinke Sena, African Representative to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues with his Kenyan State counterpart at the PoWPA

Report on TILCEPA PoWPA Training Program

Drs Margaret Jacobsohn (Namibia) and Nigel Crawhall (South Africa) of the WCPA-CEESP inter-Commission Theme on Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas (TILCEPA) ran a half-day session on governance of Protected Areas at the CBD capacity building workshop on the Programme of Work for Protected Areas for Central, East and Southern Africa, 30 January – 3 February 2012. The workshop was held outside of Cape Town, South Africa. …  

09 May 2012 | News story
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The Do's and Don'ts of Supporting Forest Conservation and Restoration Initiatives by local communities and Indigenous Peoples

The final version of the report on "the Do's and Don'ts of Supporting Forest Conservation and Restoration Initiatives by local communities and Indigenous Peoples", was launched at a side event at the CBD SBSTTA meeting in Montreal (3 May 2012).  …  

09 May 2012 | News story
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Just Conservation

JUST CONSERVATION - With a view to broadening the debate about conservation related conflicts and their links to NGO accountability, the Just Conservation network was launched in 2010; first on Facebook, in both English and Spanish, and now with its own independent web site at www.justconservation.org.

 
 

08 May 2012 | News story
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CEESP members to present workshop at the International Society of Ethnobiology Congress

Exploring the linkages between biodiversity, rural food systems and institutions within diverse landscapes. Panels & Side Event

    • Iain Davidson-Hunt, Centre for Community-based Resource Management, U. of Manitoba & CEESP, IUCN
    • Michel Pimbert, International Institute for Environment & Development & CEESP, IUCN
    • Lawrence Baya, Sustainable Use and Livelihoods (SULi), CEESP & SSC, IUCN
 

08 May 2012 | News story
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CEESP member Alonzo Zarzycki to participate in the IUFRO Forests for People Conference in Austria

CEESP member Alonzo Zarzycki is participating in the IUFRO Forests for People Conference in Austria, May 22-24, 2012,  …  

08 May 2012 | News story
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Juanita Cabrera-Lopez

Public Forum on Women, Mining and Human Rights in Latin America

Co-Chair of TGER Juanita Cabrera-Lopez is an organizer of: "Public Forum on Women, Mining and Human Rights in Latin America", sponsored by LAMMP (Latin American Mining Monitoring Programme) and the ULAM (Union of Latin American Women, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, May 11, 2012.  …  

08 May 2012 | News story
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