CEESP Newsletter May 2021

IUCN CEESP Newsletter
May 2021

Community-based Conservation

Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba

As more and more terrestrial and marine regions come under protected area status, the idea of community-based conservation becomes increasingly interesting. How do IUCN protected area categories V and VI work with people in them? Can Indigenous and Community-conserved Areas (ICCAs) contribute to conservation? How does community stewardship work?

Conservation communautaire

Fikret Berkes, Université du Manitoba

Alors que de plus en plus de régions terrestres et marines se voient attribuer le statut d'aire protégée, l'idée de la conservation communautaire suscite un intérêt croissant. Comment les catégories d'aires protégées V et VI de l'UICN fonctionnent-elles avec les populations qui y habitent ? Les aires protégées autochtones et communautaires (APAC) peuvent-elles contribuer à la conservation ? Comment fonctionne la gestion communautaire ?

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Conservación comunitaria

Fikret Berkes, Universidad de Manitoba

A medida que un número cada vez mayor de regiones terrestres y marinas entran en la categoría de áreas protegidas, la idea de la conservación basada en la comunidad resulta cada vez más interesante. ¿Cómo funcionan las categorías V y VI de áreas protegidas de la UICN cuando hay personas que las habitan? ¿Pueden los Territorios y áreas conservados por pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales (los TICCA) contribuir a la conservación? ¿Cómo funciona la custodia comunitaria?

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Coastal Community Associations: A model for sustainable development at the Kenyan coast

Tilda Bowden, Creative Writing editor of the Lucy Writers’ Platform on behalf of the Oceans Alive Trust, Kenya

Kuruwitu Fishers on the north coast of Kenya were driven to the brink of survival by unregulated and exploitative fish harvesting and were prompted to start a Community Based Organization. This led to the creation of the first Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) in the Western Indian Ocean. Through this, a system of governance and recourse was created which has transformed the area and its marine environment.

Community Conservation Area volunteers safeguard 5,000 wintering Oriental Storks in Tianjin, China

Linda Wong, Jinfeng Zhou and Xiaohong Yang, China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation

The coastal city of Tianjin witnessed about 5,000 Oriental storks wintering in 2020, almost doubling the population from previous years. However, the picture may not be all rosy, according to volunteers of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF).

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Coral restoration training on Fiji’s Coral Coast

Victor Bonito, Director, Reef Explorer Fiji

With corals and coral reefs facing increasing threats, coral restoration has become a growing tool for conservation and marine management practitioners.

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Communities combating fisheries crime and reef destruction

Venkat Ramakrishnan

Reef Check Malaysia has been working on the ground addressing many challenges while protecting coral reefs and marine life in Malaysia. In this article, they describes how dangerous fish bombs are to marine life and local livelihoods, and how they are addressing the issue.

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New edition: Protected Area Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT)

Sue Stolton and Nigel Dudley, Equilibrium Research

Protected and conserved areas only work if they are effectively managed. And understanding what constitutes “effective” means getting to grips with a huge range of social, environmental and economic issues.

New book: "Advanced Introduction to Community-based Conservation"

Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba's Natural Resources Institute

The book is a synthesis of community-based conservation theory and practice, written as a textbook for university students and for international conservation practitioners. Berkes argues that biodiversity loss is not primarily a technical issue but a social problem, concluding that conservation must be democratized in order to broaden its support base and build more inclusive constituencies.

New book: Commons institutions and how they work (or not)

Prateep Kumar Nayak, Editor, and by Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba

Conservation depends on understanding the motivations of people who use biodiversity and practice stewardship. As a shared resource, biodiversity is both a local and a global commons. Commons institutions is what makes sustainability possible. Here commonisation is understood as the process through which a resource becomes jointly used under commons institutions and collective action. Decommonisation refers to the opposite process.

Landscape architects combating ecosystem degradation

Tobiloba Akibo, Tunji Adejumo, Kharbal James Kaltho (CEESP-member) & Ibrahim Bala Girku

The Society of Landscape Architects in Nigeria (SLAN) launced a lecture series with the theme “UN Decade of Ecological Restoration,” discussing ways landscape architects can and are combating ecosystem degradation, reviewing best practices, lessons learned and tools used.

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What makes conservation effective? A community perspective

A video is now available of the public event held April 20, 2021, to celebrate the launch of the new CCRN book, co-published by IUCN-CEESP: Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods.

The panel discussion involved book authors and IUCN commentators exploring the role of local communities in conserving local environments and sustaining livelihoods, and discussing major themes of the book – motivations for communities to conserve, effectiveness in producing biodiversity and livelihood outcomes, and the role of decision-making, of power, and of Indigenous realities.

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Sustainable Use and Livelihoods

Digest, March and April 2021

Dilys Roe

Recent journal articles and news on issues relating to sustainable use and livelihoods.

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Green Criminology

The study and prevention of environmental harm and crimes

José Luis Carpio-Domínguez &
Inés Arroyo-Quiroz

Given the lack of ecological and environmental training in the generations of criminologists in Mexico, a course on “Green Criminology” was developed with the aim of providing a richer and wider perspective to the set of knowledge acquired during a student’s professional training in criminology, to train students who can contribute professionally to society in the study and prevention of environmental harms and crimes, and to encourage its implementation in other universities in Mexico and Latin America.

Una materia optativa de Criminología Verde

José Luis Carpio-Domínguez &
Inés Arroyo-Quiroz

Ante la falta de una formación verde en las generaciones de criminólogos en México, la Unidad Académica Multidisciplinaria Reynosa Aztlán (UAMRA) de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas en colaboración con el Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisplinarias (CRIM) de la UNAM proponen una materia de “Criminología Verde” que permitirá aportar una perspectiva ambiental al conjunto de conocimientos criminológicos adquiridos durante la formación profesional en criminología.

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Other updates

Plastics: mitigating their environmental, health and human rights impacts

Patricia Parkinson, Director, Environmental Law Oceania

A new global governance regime for plastics is needed to mitigate their environmental, health and human rights impacts, especially in the Pacific 'Large Ocean Small Islands Developing States' - A tale of flooding bathrooms.

The regulation of water supply and sanitation services in the fight against COVID-19 for the protection of human rightse

Ana Claudia Hafemann

Faced with an atypical scenario arising with the spread of the new coronavirus pandemic worldwide, new behaviors became necessary in prevention and control. The regulatory sector of water supply and sanitation, in particular, has been assigned the protection of human rights through measures to guarantee access to these essential services.

IUCN World Conservation Congress

Taking into account the current health situation, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has decided to organise a “hybrid” IUCN World Conservation Congress, thus allowing people not able to physically attend the event to follow and participate in some parts of the Congress remotely.

Images

Biocultural restoration: Hawaii’s ahupua’a land and coastal management systems almost disappeared after colonization, but they are being restored in some areas. The photo shows re-building of stone walls of a traditional fishpond (part of ahupua’a) by communal effort in O’ahu Island (Photo: Kim Moa).
Fishermen from Kuruwitu & The community receives a new boat. Photos by Desmond Bowden, Oceans Alive Trust
Community Conservation Area Volunteers Safeguard 5,000 Wintering Oriental Storks in Tianjin, China
Coral restoration training on Fiji’s Coral Coast. Victor Bonito Director, Reef Explorer Fiji
A fish bomb blast - Reef Check Malaysia
Completing the METT in Bhutan; credit: Equilibrium Research
Canada, as elsewhere, has a rapidly increasing number of Indigenous protected areas (PAs). The photo shows a meeting in Wemindji, subarctic Quebec, to determine the boundaries of a locally planned PA. In attendance are members of the Cree Nation of Wemindji, university researchers (technical support and capacity-building), and government observers (Photo: F. Berkes).
Andean Indigenous peoples use chaku, a ritualized traditional method to capture herds of vicuna (Vicugna vicugna), a small camelid with very valuable fibre. Once near-extinct, recent commonisation has enabled Indigenous groups to capture, shear, and release vicuna back into the wild, thus conserving populations. From: Chapter 6 by Gabriela Lichtenstein and Carlos Cowan Ros (Photo: C. Cowan Ros).
Screen shot of lectures facilitated by Kharbal J. kaltho, 2020 Nature Based Recommendations for Agaie selected Gully Erosion Site.
Figure 1. Teaching of the subject of green criminology since 2020 (online due to Covid-19 contingency). Photo: José Luis Carpio D.
Plastic pollution on shorelines in the Pacific. Photo by Patricia Parkinson
Access to water and sanitation are recognized as human rights. Photo by Ana Claudia Hafemann

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IUCN CEESP NewsletterMay 2021

IUCN CEESP Newsletter
May 2021