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Coast of Robberg marine protected area at the Robberg Peninsula, South Africa. Franz Aberham via GettyImages

November 21, 2021

How South Africa can get communities involved in conserving coastal and marine areas

Wayne Stanley Rice, University of Cape Town

If the local context and priorities of those who most directly rely on natural resources for their survival isn’t considered, conservation efforts will continue to fail.

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)

March 30, 2020

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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