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Does the UN step up its game (again) to tackle illicit wildlife trade?

Guest contribution by Dr. Nikolas Sellheim. Introduction On 23 July 2021 the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution A/75/L.116 ‘Tackling illicit wildlife trade‘. The resolution is the fifth resolution of the UNGA after resolutions in 2015, 2016, 2017and 2019 on this very issue. While the underlying narrative is essentially the same – i.e. the protection of biodiversity through the… Continue reading Does the UN step up its game (again) to tackle illicit wildlife trade?

Contextualising the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use

IWMC is pleased to have permission to publish Dr. Nikolas Sellheim‘s overview and comment on the Declaration on Forests and Land Use issued on 2 November 2021 at COP26 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Glasgow, UK. This article first appeared on his online publication People, Livelihoods & Conservation. Introduction On… Continue reading Contextualising the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use

A People’s Manifesto For The Future Of Conservation

Indigenous, non-indigenous campaigners and experts who attended the world’s first Our Land Our Nature Congress released a manifesto calling for a total halt to the creation of new Protected Areas that threaten human rights. Our Land Our Nature was held in Marseille in September as a counterpoint to the IUCN’s much larger World Congress, which attracted mainly mainstream… Continue reading A People’s Manifesto For The Future Of Conservation

IWMC World Conservation Trust Opening Statement

VSM/2109/OS/NGO/03 IWMC World Conservation Trust Opening Statement IWMC World Conservation Trust wishes to express its gratitude to the Chair of the Commission and its appreciation to the Secretary and her Staff for the effectiveness in arranging this Special Meeting under difficult circumstances. For centuries whaling has been an integral part of cultures all around the… Continue reading IWMC World Conservation Trust Opening Statement

IWMC’s Opinion published in the Straits Times Forum

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Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau

The value of “interrupting the supply chain” for wildlife products is not necessarily positive from the perspective of conservation.

Recognising community rangers in honour of Garth Owen-Smith

CONSERVATION NAMIBIA

Author Gail C. Thomson. Originally published on Conservation Namibia. The early 1980s was a tough time to conserve wildlife outside national parks in Namibia, particularly in areas that were demarcated by the apartheid government as homelands. It was tough both politically and environmentally – the government of the day had little political will and no effective… Continue reading Recognising community rangers in honour of Garth Owen-Smith

Hands off all sharks?

Putting ocean life under the microscope

At CITES’ CoP-18 the assembled NGOs made sharks their iconic species of choice, knocking elephants off their number one spot. The question is, why did an ugly predator displace photogenic and speciously friendly elephants as the primary campaign pillar of animal rights activists? Animal activist NGOs leapt for joy, stamped their feet and banged their… Continue reading Hands off all sharks?

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