Story | 05 Aug, 2022
Message from the Chair of SPICEH: rights-based conservation for social justice
CEESP News: Pasang Dolma Sherpa, PhD, Chair of IUCN CEESP Specialist Group on Indigenous Peoples, Customary & Environmental Laws, and Human Rights (SPICEH) & Director of Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Development (CIPRED)
Story | 05 Aug, 2022
Indigenous voices demand an end to colonial conservation at Africa Protected Areas Congress
CEESP News:
Story | 05 Aug, 2022
Loktak Indigenous fishers face threats to their livelihoods
CEESP News: Salam Rajesh, CEESP member
Manipur’s Loktak Lake is one of India’s Ramsar sites. A significant natural inland freshwater wetland, Loktak supports a diversity of life including Indigenous Meitei fishing population. The fishers have thrived upon the lake resources for…
Story | 05 Aug, 2022
CEESP News: Bheka Nxele, Programme Manager on the implementation of a Working for Ecosystems Programme, for eThekwini Municipality in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa & CEESP member
We highlight the importance of incorporating Indigenous knowledge in ecosystem …
Story | 25 Jul, 2022
What if water could speak? "Meet the Oceans"
CEESP News: Heli Shah, President of the Water Initiative IHEID & Charlotte Qin, founder of QinTheory 秦 論 Studio & CEESP member
What if oceans could talk? "Meet the Oceans" is a live performance that brings together the five oceans to the General Assembly of the "United Oceans (UO…
Story | 20 Jul, 2022
Enhancing legal and policy frameworks for Nature-based Solutions in the Western Balkans
Until now, there has been no systematic and consistent approach to legal and policy analysis that addresses the integration of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) into development strategies, sectoral policies and legal instruments to tackle climate change and disaster risks. In responding to this gap…
News | 15 Jul, 2022
Sustainable use re-affirmed as key to conservation by new UN report
IUCN’s data and experts were critical to the UN’s Thematic Assessment of the Sustainable Use of Wild Species – a new report with profound implications for species conservation.
Story | 08 Jul, 2022
The Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) Ubuntoo "Greenhouse" currently holds hundreds of product, knowledge resources, and a news feed about plastic leakage and pollution specific to Small Island Developing States (SIDS). It resides within the Ubuntoo environmental solutions platform, to build…
Story | 06 Jul, 2022
CEESP News: Alexandra Eisinger1
Addressing land tenure and property rights is instrumental to delivering successful restoration outcomes, yet existing modalities do not adequately support tenure-responsive programming to address conflict, avoid doing harm, and be a conduit for…
Story | 28 Jun, 2022
Statement on human rights abuses in conservation
IUCN CEESP rejects human rights violations in the name of marine and terrestrial conservation.