The 2024 Africa Conservation Forum, organized by IUCN, featured a workshop on Nature-based Solutions, highlighting community conservation practices and the importance of integrating indigenous knowledge to address biodiversity and climate challenges across Africa
The African Conservation Forum 2024, held in Nairobi, united diverse stakeholders to address Africa’s biodiversity and climate challenges, aiming to strengthen the continent’s voice ahead of the 2025 IUCN World Conservation Congress.
Discover the urgent need to balance nature and development in South Africa’s arid regions through sustainable practices and innovative conservation efforts.
Overcoming fear and embracing the unknown have defined my journey with the Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Birds of Prey Program, where I work alone in remote areas to protect South Africa’s wildlife and promote conservation.
The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) calls for a revision and republication of the government’s National Biodiversity Economy Strategy (NBES), emphasizing the need for clarity, content enhancement, and alignment with conservation principles. EWT’s comprehensive comments outline concerns regarding wildlife management, sustainable land use, and the economic viability of proposed actions.
The EWT prides itself on instilling hope, and sharing a vision of what our future can be. We do not like to instil a sense of fear, loss or hopelessness when we talk about our natural world. Instead, we prefer to show, with evidence, the difference we can all make when we work together. You’ve seen firsthand how our work, and with your support, has turned South Africa into the only country in Africa with an increasing population of Cheetah. How Wild Dogs now flourish in Malawi and Mozambique where they had previously gone extinct. How lost species like the Amatola Toad and de Winton’s Golden Mole have been rediscovered and can now be protected. How rivers can flow when invasive plants are removed and how communities can use this water for their livelihoods, their crops and their general wellbeing.