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Biodiversity & Livelihoods
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Intro

Nature protection is most sustainable in places where it essentially contributes to the long-term stability of human needs ...

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News

Mozambique police fire rubber bullets at Maputo rioters (3 September 2010)

UN launches decade-long efforts to tackle desertification (16 August 2010)

UN agency and Ecuador sign deal to protect ecological site from oil drilling (4 August 2010)

DRC-Rwanda: Land rows complicate refugees' return (2 July 2010)

Singapore’s ‘sustainability credentials’ undermined by environmentally destructive sand imports (27 June 2010)

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Recent Publications

Nellemann, C./Redmond, I./Refisch, J. (eds) 2010: The Last Stand of the Gorilla – Environmental Crime and Conflict in the Congo Basin. A Rapid Response Assessment. Arendal, Norway: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), GRID-Arendal.

Stockbruegger, Jan (ed.) 2010: Contested Urban Land: Approaching Land Management and Land-based Conflicts in Urban Somaliland. Hargeisa/Duisburg: Academy for Peace and Development (APD)/Institute for Development and Peace (INEF).

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Initiatives

Communities and Small-Scale Mining (CASM)

World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)

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