Rights & empowerment for Indigenous Peoples & local communities is the change the world needs. Environmental justice @UniEastAnglia, IUCN CEESP. Scotland (YES)
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23 Aug 2023
New @IUCN_CEESP Policy Matters shows how communities resist external intervention & work together to take back control over their territories ecosystems they are deeply connected to, generating positive #biodiversity outcomes. #TransformativePathways iucn.org/story/202308/toward…
ALT Full issue at https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/Policy-Matters-Issue-23_0.pdf
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9 Oct 2024
🔊 Two open faculty positions at the School of Global Development, University of East Anglia. An excellent department, University, and city! Please spread the word!
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12 Sep 2024
The open access version of my book, Decolonizing African Agriculture, has been published! Read it here agendapub.com/resources/pdfs…. One may also pre-order paperback copies agendapub.com/page/detail/de… @Macalester @theAAG @hlpe_cfs @ASANewsOnline @AfricaGeoReview @bdowduribe @Million_Belay
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‼️ More than 50 civil society organizations and human rights defenders in #Tanzania have published a statement on the state of human rights in Ngorongoro District affecting 110,000 residents. #LandRightsNow
Read their recommendations and share widely👇🏽
rightsandresources.org/wp-co…
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19 Aug 2024
The government of #Tanzania must immediately stop harassment and evictions of the Maasai people of #Ngorongoro @UN4Indigenous @hindououmar @landislife @PINGOsForum @Oleshangay @EarthRightsIntl @USAmbTanzania
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19 Aug 2024
It's been amazing to watch these events unfold in #Ngorongoro. All strength to those seeking to defend their rights.
18 Aug 2024
All we want is Justice, We need nothing but #JUSTICE, We need nothing but land & people’s rights.
Ngorongoro Maasai stage Protest for their rights @UN4Indigenous @MaryLawlorhrds @UN @AfricaDefenders @DefendDefenders @IPRightsIntl @EUinTZ @Land_Dwellers @UNGeneva
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15 Aug 2024
In this new paper led by @emvansant with @Bowydb, @madasascientist, F Reiner, C Hall, and J Kamoto, we show the positive effect of tree cover on people's micronutrient adequacy in Malawi, explained by people sourcing food from on-farm trees. nature.com/articles/s43016-0…
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8 Aug 2024
A privilege to have @AFrontlines involved in this research through @EcocideGenocide & fantastic to see in this blog how our findings resonate with the amazing & crucial work they do in the #Amazon for #Indigenous peoples nature in such challenging circumstances.
7 Aug 2024
Scientific studies are increasingly finding that #IndigenousPeoples are the most effective at conserving #biodiversity compared to ‘western’ forms of #conservation, such as protected areas (ie. national parks).
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8 Aug 2024
A blog talking about our two latest scientific articles. the latest uncovered the production of conservation #knowledge, strong biases in knowledge production, persistent colonial power dynamic in conservation science and potential conflicts of interest
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7 Aug 2024
Scientific studies are increasingly finding that #IndigenousPeoples are the most effective at conserving #biodiversity compared to ‘western’ forms of #conservation, such as protected areas (ie. national parks).
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22 Jul 2024
Land tenure reform in Africa: a new book explains why customary systems are important zimbabweland.wordpress.com/2…
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#IndigenousKnowledges
✍️🏾The authors of this article were on a team commissioned by the federal government 🇦🇺to advise on ways to enhance Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ voices in the IPCC process.
Go to tinyurl.com/5n78e3ta
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18 Jul 2024
Reviewing the science on 50 years of #conservation: Through 662 studies in 102 countries, we find independence issues can suppress the otherwise clear link between Indigenous & local leadership & conservation success @FRBiodiv @developmentuea @IUCN_GovRights @Ambio_Journal
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18 Jul 2024
#openaccess link at doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-0… (I'm always forgetting the link in the main tweet!🫢)
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26 Jun 2024
Today is the 40th anniversary of the removal of Scotland's 3-mile fishing limit by the Thatcher government. Our fisheries' capacity to keep local people on both sea & land has never recovered. That is why @TheOpenSeas campaigns to restore the limit. Read: ourseas.scot/news/a-history-…
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13 May 2024
New release!! Participation is not the answer: epistemic violence and authoritarian practices in conservation-forced displacement by Jessica Milgrooom & Priscilla Claeys on how participation in fact legitimises displacements in Mozambique.
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4 Mar 2023
This really is an extraordinary graphic. While we agonise over the impact of releasing a few Beavers back in the landscape, about 50 million non-native Pheasants are released into the environment each year with not much debate at all.
Just looking back at this paper link.springer.com/article/10… by @TimBlackburn66 and @KevinJGaston for a tutorial I'm running on Monday - this really is an extraordinary figure isn't it? 49% of Britain's bird biomass in August is pheasant.
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12 Jun 2024
“Advancing #equitable governance in area-based #conservation” – in a new paper, led by Phil Franks, we provide guidance on how to ensure #equity in achieving the #30x30
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6 Jun 2024
Our latest blog dives into a fascinating meta-analysis by @NeilMDawson et al. of governance in community conservation efforts around the world. What they found is powerful: greater power to communities = better conservation and social outcomes! 1/3 resourceafrica.net/african-c…
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5 Jun 2024
Indigenous autonomy and governance are key for effective #biodiversity conservation.
Thomas Worsdell, our colleague at @AFrontlines along with other scientists reviewed 648 empirical studies to develop a typology of the roles of #IndigenousPeoples in the governance of territories
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