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The series of IUCN Regional meetings have started. I participated in the IUCN Oceania Regional Forum organised by the ORO regional office in the Great Council of Chiefs Hall in Suva, Fiji, 13-15 July. These meetings provide an invaluable opportunity for IUCN member organisations, members of Commissions and Secretariat staff to meet at a regional level to discuss procedural and substantive issues in preparation for the World Conservation Congress. The meeting in Fiji commenced with a traditional indigenous Fijian kava welcoming ceremony â€“ a powerful celebration of the importance of culture and a reminder that a substantial percentage of the worldâ€™s population still value and practice cultural protocols for hospitality, the caring for past and future generations and respect for nature and all species. At a time when cultural traditions of honouring and respecting

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nature are more necessary than ever it seems that many countries are diverting resources away from indigenous and cultural policies relating to environmental guardianship in favour of market-based environmental policies. A Commission such as CEESP has an important role to foster and promote a more responsible inter-generational approach not just through research and publications, but also through capacity building, policy advice, lobbying and action.

On behalf of the CEESP/SSC Specialist Group on Sustainable Use and Livelihoods (SULi), the Chairs of CEESP and the Species Survival Commission held a side-event at the Oceania Forum on â€œWhy and how should we use traditional knowledge in Red List Assessments?â€ The event was well attended and participants raised many useful issues. This will continue to be an area of focus for both Commissions.

Guest Editorial | Payments for Ecosystem Services: Threat or Opportunity? â€“ Linking active management to bottom-up market-based mechanisms towards effective conservation by Catie Burlando, CEESP SC

Funding towards achieving both effective and equitable conservation efforts in protected areas and Natura 2000 network (comprising both state-managed protected areas, as well

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as private and common areas) is increasingly limited in European countries facing tightened national budgets and spending cuts. Besides reliance on Direct and Structural European Funds and the agro-environmental measures specifically supporting conservation-oriented outcomes, there are calls to make greater use of market-based mechanisms such as payment for ecosystem-services and PES â€“like schemes. This shift has occurred in parallel to a discursive shift emphasizing the valuation of nature, ecosystem services and natural capital.

I was recently invited as a CEESP member to moderate the workshop on "Improving governance of protected areas through payments for ecosystem services and self- financing mechanisms" at Little Sydney: Protecting Nature in Europe, held May 28-31, 2015 in Austria. CURSA, Lands NGO and the Universities of Molise and La Sapienza organized the event as part of the EU LIFE project â€œMaking Good Naturaâ€ , and followed up with a series of recommendations and actions point from the round table discussion. While there is heated debate on the merits and limitations of introducing market-based tools in the field of conservation, I believe there is a need to reflect upon the relationships between land-based production, provision of ecosystem services, and the trade-offs generated by PES schemes in terms of social and economic practice on the land.

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Community rangers in the Ruvuma Elephant Landscape at the border of Tanzania and Mozambique. Photo credit: PAMS Foundation

BEYOND ENFORCEMENT: SULi and partners highlight the role of communities in tackling wildlife in the European Parliament

Indigenous and local communities are on the frontline of the surge of wildlife crime that is devastating populations of iconic species such as elephants and rhinos, as well as a host of lesser known taxa such as timbers, pangolins, and reptiles. Communities can be powerful and positive partners in tackling wildlife crime, and indeed state-led top down enforcement efforts are very unlikely to succeed in stemming the crisis without their active engagement. These were some of the key messages from a symposium earlier this yearin Muldersdrift, South Africa, convened by the CEESP/SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group (SULi) with partners IIED, TRAFFIC, the Austrian Ministry of the Environment and the University of Queensland Centre for Environmental Decisions, supported by USAID, GIZ and the Austrian Ministry of the Environment.

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Conference participants at the second Inter-religious Climate and Ecology (ICE) network conference in Seoul, Korea, 29-30 April 2015. Photo by: Nigel Crawhall

Asian Faith Based Conference studies climate change, energy and environmental activism

CEESP contributed facilitation and organisational support to the second Inter-religious Climate and Ecology (ICE) network conference in Seoul, Korea, 29-30 April 2015. The ICE 2 conference was preceded by a special workshop on climate change at the Woljeongsa Temple in Pyeongchang and field trips to different parts of the Korea to study situations of faith-based environmental conservation and activism related to nuclear power plants, dams, agro-biodiversity and food safety.

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Photo by: Abbas Mushtaq (LEAD Pakistan)

Regional Workshop held on: Understanding, Respecting and Recognizing Indigenous Management Systems and Values for Better Governance in ICCAS of Pakistan

LEAD Pakistan hosted a Regional Workshop on ICCAs - Understanding, Respecting and Recognizing Indigenous Management Systems for Better Governance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the Serena Islamabad on May 21st, 2015. The workshop was organized in collaboration with ICCA Consortium, USAIDâ€™s Small Grants and Ambassador's Fund Program and the Wildlife Department. Tahir Rasheed (CEESP member) delivered the welcome address. He elaborated that interaction with the indigenous/local communities revealed that indigenous management practices, as traditional knowledge, are able to contribute to biodiversity conservation. Creating mechanisms and systems for protecting and revitalizing traditional knowledge is within the context of prevailing socio-cultural and ecological setting of the area.

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Victoria Hasler (Austrian federal Ministry of Environment), Michael HoÅ¡ek (IUCN Councillor for Eastern Europe, North and Central Asia) and Catie Burlando (CEESP SC and IPS Co-Convener) at Little Sydney: Protecting Nature in Europe. Photo provided by: Catie Burlando

The IUCN Task Force on Intergenerational Partnership for Sustainability: Working now for youth engagement and collaboration across generations at the World Conservation Congress 2016

The IUCN Task Force on Intergenerational Partnership (IPS), which includes the CEESP Emerging Leaders Network and all Commission young professional groups, presented two strategic documents at the last two Council meetings in November 2014 and May 2015. The two strategic documents have laid the foundation for the work that the IPS Co-Conveners and Members are undertaking leading up to the World Conservation Congress in Hawaiâ€™i in 2016.

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NRGF Working Group members outside the UNECA conference center. From left to right: Amran Hamzah, Neera Singh, Omer Aijazi, Prosper Matondi, Barbara Nakangu, Jessica Campese, James Murombedzi, Gretchen Walters, Joshua Nyoni, Jennifer Mohamed-Katerere, Hannah Getachew, Emmanuel Nuesiri and Osvaldo Monguia. Photographer: Independent photographer at UNECA

The Natural Resource Governance Framework Module on Rights and Intervening Agencies

The Natural Resource Governance Framework Working Group (NRGF WG) convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from June 2nd to 4th, 2015. The purpose of the meeting was to advance the regional and modular development of the NRGF. Twelve NRGF WG members (including three Young Professionals) from CEESP, the IUCN Secretariat, NRGF partner organizations including NGOs, academic institutions and Think Tanks attended the technical meeting. The African Climate Policy Center (ACPC) at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) hosted the assembly.

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Conclusions from Eight Published Studies on Co-management and Forest Sustainability

CEESP member, Mark Robson and his colleague Troy Davis have recently published their paper â€“ Evaluating the Transition to Sustainable Forest Management in Ontario's Crown Forest Sustainability Act and forest management planning manuals from 1994 to 2009 in the 2015 Canadian Journal of Forest Research April issue. The series had begun with a focus on cooperation, specifically if and how it had developed. The purpose is to share lessons for state-community partnerships globally. State-community partnerships are conceptualized as adaptive organizational arrangements for natural resource (forest) sustainability.

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The research site in eastern Inner Mongolia, China. Photo by: Ruifei Tang

The impacts of government policies on traditional resource management institutions in Inner Mongolia, China

Dr. Ruifei Tang (CEESP Executive Officer) and Dr. Michael Gavin (CEESP member) have worked in the fields of indigenous issues and community-based natural resource management over the last decade. One of their recent studies based in Inner Mongolia of China is published by Environmental Science and Policy this month. In their case study, they examined how policy changes in China over the past 60 years have influenced indigenous resource management institutions designed to manage common pool pastoral systems in eastern Inner Mongolia. They also emphasize how community members have used recent changes in government policies to revitalize traditional herding institutions. This finding provides a rare glimpse at the re-emergence of the commons from the bottom up.

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A young Argentinean gaucho collecting honey of wild bees (Meliponidae) from a snag of palo santo (Bulnesia sarmientoi) in the Argentinean Semiarid Chaco.Photo by: Francisco RamÃ³n BarbarÃ¡n

Op Ed: Biodiversity values and payment for ecosystem services in Argentina: Who pays?

In his research paper, Francisco RamÃ³n BarbarÃ¡n (CCESP member) argues, many biologists consider that protecting ecosystems is a matter of societal choice and not an issue of market. They claim that taking care of ecosystem services should be a matter of policy, not of money, just like health, safe drinking water and so many others. They argue that values are extremely difficult to assess...and values tend to lose when compared to - and competing with - other drivers operating in the opposite direction, for example in Argentina, the international price of soybean. Is it possible to separate markets from policy? Whoâ€™s paying the policy?

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Climate change impact assessment on biodiversity in the Gabura Union, near the Sundarbans area, Bangladesh. Photo by: Abul Kalam Md. Iqbal Faruk

Climate Change Impact on Biodiversity in Bangladesh

In his research paper, Abul Kalam Md. Iqbal Faruk (CEESP member) addresses, climate change is blaring a global warning for the low-lying sea facing over populated countries like Bangladesh, although they are hardly responsible for this. In Bangladesh climate change effect is marked in the changing atmospheric conditions, seasonal behavioural pattern which are giving rise to natural calamities. These climatic disasters have already begun to take toll of biodiversity. In an assessment of climate risks through the world in 2006 conducted by IPCC Bangladesh ranked the second among ten extremely vulnerable countries to climate change and climate induced extremes (Ahmed, 2009).The recent climate variability has made more a reality in Bangladesh.

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The Political Economy of Africaâ€™s natural resources and the â€˜Great Financial Crisisâ€™

A research conducted by CEESP-TEMTI (Theme on the Environment, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment)

Boom-and-bust cycles of interest in Africaâ€™s natural resources have signified the continentâ€™s place in the economic world order for well over a century. That is, Africaâ€™s political economy from the outside. Africa, after all, is a huge and incredibly diverse continent, where societies and livelihoods are transforming extremely rapidly and extremely variedly. Despite these rapid and varied transformations, (Sub-Saharan) Africaâ€™s place in the capitalist world system continues to be conceptualised in two rather simplistic ways: as an â€˜outcast continentâ€™ where the market â€˜has not worked its developmental magicâ€™ or as a rich source of useful resources, to be consumed by outsiders for the good of the outsiders and the African poor.

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Family-based experiment with ranching of caiman, Colombia. Photo credit: Grahame Webb

When and how can international wildlife trade support positive conservation and livelihood outcomes?

New analytical framework from CEESP/SSC Sustainable Use and Livelihoods Specialist Group and International Trade Centre

A significant share of global wildlife resources is in developing countries, in areas where rural and remote communities live and work. These communities have the potential to benefit from international demand for wildlife products. For example, Peru exports hundreds of millions of dollars worth of biodiversity-based products a year, generating jobs and income for more than 10, 000 people, mainly in rural communities. However, trade in wild resources - plants, animals, fungi - is a two-edged sword. On one hand, illegitimate and unsustainable trade can fuel a vicious vortex of resource depletion and rising prices, driving species declines and undermining local livelihoods and governance structures. On the other, well-managed trade of wild species â€“ sustainable, legal and equitable â€“ can connect indigenous and local communities with affluent and increasingly environmentally aware markets, supporting livelihood benefits while generating incentives to maintain and protect species and their habitats.

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RÃ©union de concertation pour la crÃ©ation de zones villageoises de conservation dans le village de Nâ€™Gambi (Togo- pÃ©riphÃ©rie du Parc National Oti KÃ©ran)CrÃ©dit: C. Laratte (UICN-PACO)

Capitaliser des expÃ©riences de gestion locale des ressources naturelles en Afrique de lâ€™Ouest

La conservation des espaces naturels en Afrique de lâ€™Ouest est historiquement rÃ©alisÃ©e Ã travers des parcs nationaux et rÃ©serves, gÃ©rÃ©s directement par les services Ã©tatiques. Avec les rÃ©formes en faveur de la dÃ©centralisation mises en Å“uvre dans plusieurs pays, elle sâ€™ouvre progressivement Ã de nouveaux acteurs.

LancÃ© en 2012 avec le soutien du Fonds FranÃ§ais pour lâ€™Environnement Mondial, le projet Â« Gestion des Territoires de Conservation en Afrique de lâ€™Ouest Â» (TC-AO) est mis en Å“uvre par le programme Aires ProtÃ©gÃ©es de lâ€™UICN-PACO. Il soutient des expÃ©riences de gestion locale des ressources naturelles associant des ONG, des entitÃ©s dÃ©centralisÃ©es, des services dÃ©concentrÃ©s de lâ€™Etat, des organisations communautaires, leaders traditionnels et/ou des acteurs privÃ©s sur sept sites au BÃ©nin, Ghana, Togo, Niger et Burkina Faso. Certains de ces territoires pilotes sont situÃ©s en pÃ©riphÃ©rie dâ€™aires protÃ©gÃ©es, dâ€™autres sont des espaces naturels remarquables habitÃ©s, sans statut de protection.

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Group picture of some colloquium participants. Photo provided by: Jallow Ndoye Fatoumata

EC-ACP Capacity Building Project on Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAS Project)

A report from Jallow Ndoye Fatoumata (CEESP member)

In answer to developing countries concerns, including those in Africa, to develop their capacities related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) the African Union Commission (AUC) with support from European Union (EU) established the EC-ACP Capacity Building Project on Multi-lateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs Project) in 2009, with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as the overall facilitator. The MEAs Project has as main objective to strengthen and enhance the capacity of African ACP countries to effectively implement MEAs and related commitments, leading to sound management of the environment and natural resources. The Project focuses on supporting African ACP countries and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) through capacity enhancement exercises in the fields of; negotiation and implementation; enforcement; mainstreaming; development of tools, guidelines and legislation on MEAs and MEAs-related issues; promotion of ratification and implementation of conventions; awareness creation; and reporting and information dissemination and exchange. Activities formulated under these areas are implemented in collaboration with relevant partners in the interest of synergy. Since 2009, the Project has registered remarkable achievements in all the above areas.

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Local community members placing priority dots on a generated list of concerns and/or problems that need to be addressed with conserving and managing this critical wetlands region in Yacuambi, Ecuador. Photo by: James Gruber

Preserving Ecuadorian Wetland through a Community-Based Natural Resource Management Approach

As a leading researcher, James Cruber (CEESP member) provides update of their project of preserving Ecuadorian wetland. As he points out, protection of a major Ecuadorian wetlands region in the southern high Andes is a significant concern of three local indigenous communities, local governments, NGOs, and the Universidad TÃ©cnica Particular de Loja (UTPL). The land under consideration for designation as a Ramsar Convention Wetland is adjacent to lands occupied by the Saraguro, Shuar, and Mestiza people. This region can be considered an IUCN Category-6 Landscape.

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Young girls processing shrimp, before they are sold to the market- Laem KLat village- Trat Province, Thailand. Photo credit: MFF IUCN Asia Regional office

MFF and CEESPâ€™s role in gender equity

â€œGender discrimination is one of the main causes of poverty, and a major obstacle to equitable and sustainable global human development.â€ (SIDA 2005)

â€˜Mangroves for the Futureâ€™ (MFF) is one of the largest partnership-based initiatives of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that promotes and attracts investments in coastal ecosystems that support sustainable development. MFF aims to guarantee equality of outcomes for women and men in the management of natural resources and promotion of sustainable livelihoods in coastal communities as one of its cross cutting themes. Since its inception in 2006, the MFF has undergone considerable change in its strategic implementation and now, in its third phase (2015-2018), it aims to focus on â€˜generating commitment of the leadership/ managementâ€™ as well as â€˜building the technical capacity of field level practitionersâ€™ for gender integration. CEESP focuses on providing a platform for experts all over the world to connect with one another and explore, promote and provide insights into nature-based solutions to current social and economic problems. As stated in the mandate, the commissionâ€™s ideal is to create a world in which â€œequity is at the root of a dynamic harmony between peoples and nature, as well as among peoples.â€

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Mr. Jeff Feldpausch (the director of the Resource Protection Department in the Sitka Tribe of Alaska) is about to set a hemlock branch to harvest herring eggs for community elders. Photo credit: Sitka Tribe of Alaska.

CEESP member research: Food sovereignty and sharing the future of the herring in the North Pacific

CEESP member, Shingo Hamada and his colleague Thomas Thornton are conducting a research project on how the exchange of food gift weaves inter and intra-communal social networks in the mid of the herring conservation controversy in the North Pacific. Schools of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) return to shallow coastal water for spawning every spring, and then swim back to the sea and return to the shoreline again next year. Leaving mature herring in the sea ensures healthy recruitment and resilience for the herring populations and all who rely on them for food, including high trophic species like whales, sea lions, halibut, salmon, seabirds, and humans.

Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska show us how to harvest and procure herring food sustainably. They set hemlock trees in areas where the herring spawn every spring, and they only harvest herring eggs adhered to the branches. This way, Tlingit people not only harvest eggs while leaving breeding fish at sea, but also cultivate more spawning beds for herring. Their traditional environmental knowledge and practice makes us re-appreciate what our nonhuman inhabitants on this earth provide to nurture us.

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Project participants (left to right): Mr Sunil Shastri, Professor Duncan French and Dr Stephen Turner. Photo provided by: Stephen Turner.

The Global Environmental Governance Modelling Project

As Dr Stephen Turner (CEESP member) reports, the Centre of Environmental Law and Justice at Lincoln University (UK) is working on the development of the Global Environmental Governance Modelling Project. It is currently interested in speaking with academics, professionals and institutions who can offer expertise related to specific research questions within the project. Working in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme, the purpose of the project is to develop pathways towards a reformed global legal and institutional architecture that would be predisposed to environmental sustainability.

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Peruvian â€œChaccuâ€ in Huaytara Andean Community. Photograph by Pierina Benites Alfaro

Vicugna: Perspectivas socio â€“ econÃ³micas desde la zona de mayor poblaciÃ³n a nivel mundial

Como Pierina Benites Alfaro (miembro de la CEESP) informa, la vicugna es el camÃ©lido sudamericano de mayor relevancia a nivel mundial. La fineza de su fibra y la historia precolombina de su aprovechamiento la convierten ademÃ¡s en un valioso recurso que aÃºn requiere protecciÃ³n para su conservaciÃ³n. Por ello, el comercio de la fibra de la especie se encuentra regulado a travÃ©s de la Convenio sobre el Comercio Internacional de las Especies Amenazadas de Fauna y Flores Silvestre â€“ CITES, debido a la caza indiscriminada de la cual aÃºn es propensa.

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Pink Butterfly Orchid (Serapias lingua) in the Insugherata Nature Reserve. Photo by: James Karimi

Conservation Planning in the Parks in the North-West of Rome â€“ Sustaining Biodiversity and Parks

CEESP member, James Karimi (WWF Italy) studied the ecological network of Romeâ€™s Parks which are comprised by two parks, nine reserves, three natural monumental areas and one marine protected area. They cover over 16,209 ha set mostly in an urban and agricultural landscape. The parks include farmhouse, archeological sites and monuments. There is also the Appian Regional Park that forms a green wedge that connects the outskirts of the city to the city centre. Most of the Parks are zoned and have management plans to preserve conservation values and develop economical and social programs to generate benefits. The questions are: 1) have the conservation objectives been met? 2) is the conservation planning effective?

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Uvac River panorama. Photo by: Good Life Studio

Panorama â€“ learning from Inspiring Protected Area Solutions

The Panorama initiative, led by IUCNâ€™s Global Protected Areas Programme (GPAP), is an opportunity to share and adapt the most inspiring solutions found to all aspects of protected area management, policy and governance, and solutions offered by protected areas, at all levels. The Panorama will serve as a reference point and open-source resource for practitioners around the world, supported by IUCN and open for contribution by everyone. It builds on previous GPAP engagement, such as the â€œNatural Solutionsâ€ publication series and the Blue Solutions project.

The initial portfolio of solutions was launched at the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 (WPC), together with the first prototype of the online Panorama platform (www.panorama.solutions). The solutions are an integral part of the Promise of Sydney, in providing evidence for progress and success in protected areas that can inspire future action, while at the same time showing how protected areas themselves provide solutions to some of the worldâ€™s most pressing challenges: The Panorama assembles Solutions FOR protected areas, as well as BY protected areas.

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Exploring the Wild Trade Sustainability Nexus

Earthmind and Francis Vorhies (CEESP SULi members) are building a pilot open access online library on wild trade. It should be launched by September 2015. The aim of the library is to provide case studies, assessments and guidance for wild trade practitioners and policy-makers. If successful, the library will stimulate further dialogue and research on the wild trade sustainability nexus. CEESP members are welcome to propose materials for the new website. Please email [email protected]

Photo by: Francis Vorhies

Natura 2000 and the EU REFIT process

The European Commission has commissioned an evidence-based assessment process of its 1992 Habitatand 1979 (2009) Birds Directives, a process known as the Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme (REFIT). In February, the IUCN Office in Brussels called upon a team of European IUCN and Commission Members to gather peer-reviewed and expert evidence in support of the Directives, as well as develop and provide a coherent response to the public Internet consultation, which is open until July 24, 2015. IUCN upholds its congress resolution of 'non-regression' in environmental legislation, including in biodiversity conservation legislation, and encourages a more effective implementation of the EU Nature

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Directives at the national level.

For more information on how to contribute to IUCNâ€™s effort in the REFIT consultation process, as well as for the names of your national contact point, please contact Luc Bas, the Director of the European Union Representative Office at: [email protected].

IUCN World Conservation Congress - Call for Contributions

Be part of the IUCN World Conservation Congress! The IUCN World Conservation Congress 2016 will bring together several thousand leaders and decision-makers from government, civil society, indigenous peoples, business, and academia with the goal of conserving the environment and harnessing the solutions nature offers to global challenges. This is an opportunity not to be missed!

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Indigenous communities can do more for large-scale conservation than protected areas: New study of CIFOR

Ignoring indigenous practices is a missed opportunity, experts argue

Indigenous communities are highly effective at protecting natural resources and can â€˜fill the gapâ€™ over vast regions where formal conservation authorities are absent.

Yet local community practices and their significance go largely unrecognized, to the extent that many communities are forcibly removed from protected areas â€“ and experts are calling for change.

A study from Papua, Indonesia, by scientists at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is among the first to show how local communities are protecting extensive areas of land â€“ in contrast to assumptions that such communities overuse or damage natural resources.

The findings feed into a growing body of evidence that natural resource management by local communities can be more effective and cost-efficient for large-scale conservation than government-sanctioned protected areas.

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The first E-news of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has released its first E-news on July 1st, 2015. IPBES E-news provides information to all interested stakeholders on progress in the implementation of the first IPBES work programme. Please find the link to the Newsletter here.

In particular, the Proceedings on the indigenous and local knowledge on Pollination which involved Dr Phil Lyver from Landcare Research and two representatives from Tuhoe may interest many of our members.

ElaboraciÃ³n: MarÃa Marta Di Paola, Investigadora en EconomÃa y Ambiente de FARN (Abril 2015)

Como Federico Sangalli (miembro del CEESP) informa, En un contexto de modificaciones de los actores, flujos y fuentes de financiamiento internacional para el desarrollo, la dificultad de Argentina de acceder a mecanismos de financiamiento de organismos multilaterales y otras fuentes de financiamiento tras el conflicto con los holdouts internacionales, redundaron en que la apariciÃ³n de China en la escena fuera celebrada como una bocanada de aire fresco. Mientras que la llegada de nuevo financiamiento con menores condicionalidades es elogiada por algunos sectores porque resultarÃan en la reactivaciÃ³n de la economÃa y la inversiÃ³n en infraestructura, para otros genera gran preocupaciÃ³n.

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Please update your CEESP membership details on the Portal. At the present, our records contain a very limited level of details of our members. We would like to encourage you to update your profile with more details, such as nationality, date of birth (these will not be visible to other portal users), areas of expertise, etc. By doing so, you will help us to have a better understanding of our membership. You can login to the portal and complete your profile. If you are not familiar with the use of the Portal, you may find a full Userâ€™s Guide here.

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This edition of the CEESP newsletter has been compiled by Ruifei Tang, Kaia Boe and Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule. The next two issues of the Newsletter for 2015 will be produced in September and December. A call for contributions will be sent to all CEESP members for the next edition in August. Deadline for receipt of articles for the September edition is 11th September 2015 and should be sent to:

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