Ella-Kari Muhl

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People hold hands along São Conrado beach for a symbolic group hug with the sea on World Oceans Day in Rio de Janeiro, in June 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Ocean conservation needs strong relationships, not just targets

Derek Armitage, University of Waterloo and Ella-Kari Muhl, Stellenbosch University

There is no shortage of global objectives and targets driving ocean conservation. However, protecting oceans depends on the communities that steward them.
Conservation is as much about the critical role of communities as custodians of biodiversity as it is about creating people-free zones. (Quang Nguyen Vinh/Pexels)

Why communities must be at the heart of conserving wildlife, plants and ecosystems

Derek Armitage, University of Waterloo; Ella-Kari Muhl, University of Waterloo; Merle Sowman, University of Cape Town; Philile Mbatha, University of Cape Town, and Wayne Stanley Rice, University of Cape Town

With the 2020 deadline for conserving biodiversity almost past, communities must now play a larger role in conservation.

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