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In this issue: Research from ESPA on social safeguards; a new IUCN Best Practice Guidelines on Tourism in PAs; grants from USFWS and ESPA.
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The monthly newsletter of the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG)

February 2016

PCLG International and National Groups News


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The Uganda, Cameroon and DRC national PCLGs have concluded a series of research, advocacy and communication activities funded by a grant from the Arcus Foundation Great Apes Program. All relevant reports and products, including a TV documentary, will be made available on the PCLG website over the coming weeks, and will be presented in the next issues of the PCLG Newsletter. 

PCLG Members news


Village Enterprise have teamed up with the Wildlife Conservation Society to provide a week-long business and savings training to Community Based Forest Monitors in Uganda. Innovations Fellow Nafees Ahmed and Communications Fellow Heidi Graves comment on their experiences planning and attending the training sessions. 

A new IUCN Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) on Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas: Guidelines for Sustainability, and also a new accompanying Online Resource Directory, will soon be published by the IUCN. The purpose of the sustainable tourism guidelines is to share best-practice examples from around the world, with the goal of making protected area tourism a strong positive force for global conservation. Watch out for the next issue of the 10YFP newsletter where Yu-Fai Leung, Anna Spenceley, Glen Hvenegaard and Ralf Buckley outline the initiative and provide highlights from the new BPG. The guidelines will be available from the IUCN website from mid-2016, and a draft of the Online Resource Directory is already available.

News

  • New research from ESPA indicates that social safeguards don’t always benefit the right groups.
  • Why paying rather than punishing people helps to preserve the Panda in China.
  • In an IIED blog Duncan Macqueen discusses a new business opportunity in Belize, which could help protect Yellow-headed parrots and benefit local communities.
  • The latest edition of the Darwin Initiative Newsletter [PDF] provides updates from Darwin Initiative projects and how they are already working towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Film-maker Angus Macqueen asks why isolated tribes in the Amazon are initiating contact with the outside world in Brazil.
  • Survival International have lodged a formal complaint against WWF in Cameroon for violating the human rights of the indigenous Baka. WWF have responded indicating that they would welcome and participate in scrutiny of human rights issues in the country. 

Bedtime reading


Benjamin Gardener – associate professor at the University of Washington’s Bothell’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences - has authored a book entitled “Selling the Serengeti: The Cultural Politics of Safari Tourism.” The book examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches to community conservation—international NGO and state-sponsored conservation efforts and the neoliberal private investment in tourism —and investigates their profound effect on the Maasai’s culture and livelihood. The University of Washington have also published an interview with Dr Gardner regarding the book. 


An open access book has been produced by Open Book Publishers: Forests and Food – Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes. The book is based on the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Global Forest Expert Panel on Forest and Food Security and looks at how forests can play an important role in complementing agricultural production to address the Sustainable Development Goals on zero hunger. 

Events


The regional Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Forum will be held in Agadir, Morocco on 21-22 March 2016. The central theme is ‘Ecosystem Services for nature and the population wellbeing’.

The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) is holding a seminar on Payments for Ecosystem Services to conserve biodiversity in the South: effective and fair? in Paris on 5th April 2016.

GRASP Regional Meeting to Examine Great Ape Threats in West Africa will be held from 12th to 13th April in Monrovia, Liberia. Key issues to be discussed include sustainable palm oil, extractive industries, illegal trade and zoonotic diseases.

The 10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA10) will take place in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 21st-28th April 2016. This year's theme is 'Enhancing urban community resilience'. 

The 2016 IUCN World Conservation Congress is in Honolulu, Hawaii from the 1st-10th September 2016. Registration is now open.

The Africa Section of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) and the Faculty of Sciences of the University Chouaib Doukkali, Morocco are holding the 3rd African Congress for Conservation Biology (ACCB 2016), between the 4th and 8th of September, 2016 on the University Campus at El Jadida, Morocco. Call for abstracts for symposium and workshop proposals is now open until 15th March.

The Convention on Biological Diversity Thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 13) will be held in Cancun, Mexico, from 4th – 17th December 2016.

Opportunities


The US Fish and Wildlife Service have several grants available with deadlines in April and May 2016. Grants include: Combatting wildlife trafficking (invitation only); the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund and the Wildlife Without Borders Central America and South America Programmes. 

Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation ESPA Regional Opportunities Fund: Small Grants Scheme has an open ended call for applications up until 1st June 2016. Applications are invited for small projects or activities which will assist ESPA projects and their local stakeholders to significantly enhance the overall impact of individual projects and the ESPA programme as a whole.

Nominations are now invited for the MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2016. The call for nominations remains open from 15 February to 30 June 2016. The MIDORI Prize is a biennial international prize co-organised by the AEON Environmental Foundation and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The prize honours three individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
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