Reasons why you need to read this article:
1. Eswatini making international headlines 🇸🇿
2. Conservation bringing communities together 🤝
3. Indigenous values meeting modern day tourism 🤔
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Some important results! Local communities often have a bigger problem with unfair rules about wildlife than with wildlife itself.

National CBNRM Forum successfully hosted the Tilitonse Foundation and Comic Relief Anchor Partners delegation from Ghana, Zambia and Malawi. Malidadi Langa briefed the delegation about the realities of #localcommunities living in proximity of dangerous wild animals. Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa Jamma International

National CBNRM Forum is privileged to host a Tilitonse Foundation Comic Relief UK aid Anchor Partners delegation at its offices today in Lilongwe. National CBNRM Forum is a beneficiary of the Tilitonse Foundation Catalyst Fund for budding #CBOs . Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa Resource Africa Jamma International RRI - Rights and Resources Initiative Kaddu Sebunya

Exciting News! Yesterday, Lesle Jansen and a Southern African delegation hosted a side event at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous People in New York to officially launch the Indigenous Peoples Network of Southern Africa!
#IndigenousRights #CBNRM #UNPFIP #IndigenousPeople

Communities need to get fair deals from their private partners! Knowledge is a step in the right direction 👍

If you wonder what it is like living with elephants and lions, watch this: youtube.com/watch?v=6JX8G7…

The number of elephants in Namibia has been a topic of debate among some, especially since most of the elephants are in the KAZA region and frequently cross over to other countries. This KAZA-wide aerial survey settles the matter once and for all! conservationnamibia.com/articles/kaza-…

The CAMPFIRE programme in Zimbabwe is ~40 years old. While is has generated many benefits for rural communities, it's showing its age now. The latest blog by Liberty Chauke reports on a conference to chart the way forward, including ideas from Namibia. communityleadersnetwork.org/charting-the-f…

President Masisi is making an excellent point and getting the kind of media and political attention that we need on this issue. Human-elephant conflict is not a joke!

Reminder of this job opportunity! Closing date for applications is tomorrow.

📢 Tomorrow, 9am, Berlin 📢

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One of many ivory contraband seizures; what does CITES & animal rights groups expect govts to do, burn it? As long as legal ivory supply remains artificially choked, prices will continue to shoot through the roof and attract the daredevils out there. Time for sanity to prevail!

We agree with the direction the South African government is proposing to take in relation to its wildlife economy. We fully support rural communities in South Africa that are looking to engage in community-based natural resource management.

Amy Dickman 🦁 @amydickman.bsky.social This decision has been based purely on emotive falsehoods, a grotesque lack of empathy, and a sense of arrogance tinged with moral and racial superiority. This myopic ban might as well be the death knell for iconic wildlife species that underpin tourism today Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa

At the #AICA Maputo Strategy Workshop, Africa's IPLCs reaffirmed their commitment to move beyond lofty resolutions & Declarations to resolutely confront their conservation related challenges to end socio-economic marginalisation & rights abuses. Community Leaders Network of Southern Africa RRI - Rights and Resources Initiative