Human rights-based conservation is key to protecting biodiversity: Study
by Liz Kimbrough on 23 December 2020
To slow the rapid loss of global biodiversity, many countries have made commitments to protect and conserve large areas of land in the coming decades, but the fate of the Indigenous peoples, local communities and Afro-descendants who live on these lands remains unclear.
Past approaches to creating protected areas have involved relocating people or banning access and traditional use of land from its historical inhabitants. An estimated 136 million people have been displaced in the process of formally protecting land.
A new study addresses the risks Indigenous peoples, local communities and Afro-descendants face from exclusionary conservation measures and urges decision-makers to adapt rights-based conservation approaches.
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A model for the nation: Mothers hope in-progress brick garden will show gravity of gun violence loss
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Marlene Miller-Pratt speaks the New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence in November. Celeste Robinson-Fulcher is to the left.Ben Lambert / Hearst Connecticut Media /
NEW HAVEN There will be more than 600 bricks in the garden, each representing a life cut short by gun violence in New Haven since 1976, many of them by people wielding illegal and gray market guns.
Each will mark the end of a person’s life and a family’s pain.