In his January 8, 2018 presentation titled, Conserving Lake Tanganyika's Fisheries and Biodiversity: From Local Collaboration to Lake-wide Impact, Peter Limbu, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), discusses the work being done to combat declining fish populations and conserve biodiversity along Lake…
The Kenya Resilient Arid Lands Partnership for Integrated Development (Kenya RAPID) program is trying a new approach to expand access to water and sustainable livestock and rangeland management practices in five northern counties: Garissa, Isiolo, Marsabit , Turkana, and Wajir.…
A new report, Community Natural Resources Management in Tanzania, by Andrew Williams and published in December 2017 by the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG), reviews Tanzania’s land and natural resource management policies and laws which provide a framework for enabling local…
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), recipients of the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group’s (ABCG) Emerging Issues small grants, concluded their project titled, A Scalable Approach to Engaging Chinese Overseas Enterprises to Mitigate Impacts of Wildlife Trafficking…
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), recipients of the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group’s (ABCG) Emerging Issues small grant recently concluded their project titled, on July 31, 2017. Through its Emerging Issues small grants, ABCG identifies and…
In his November 28, 2017 presentation titled It’s All In Our Heads: Protecting Biodiversity With Behavior-Centered Design, Kevin Green, Senior Director of Rare’s new Center for Behavior & the Environment, posits that in spite of all the compelling reasons to…
Introduction On October 24, 2017, the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) presented the interim results from three pilot studies which examined methods for securing land and resource tenure, in its presentation titled, Piloting New Approaches for Securing Tenure in Three…
Introduction On October 26, 2017, the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) examined preliminary data on how climate change affects rural African communities and how their adaption responses impact biodiversity in its presentation titled, . A major oversight of most climate…
Through its Emerging Issues small grants, the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) supports Conservation International's Vital Signs project on Establishing a Community of Practice to Share Best Practices and Enhance Learning from the Vital Signs Monitoring System and Resilience Atlas in…
On October 30, 2017, Rebecca Goodman, Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group (ABCG) Coordinator, and Evelyn Namvua, Communications and Engagement Officer, presented at the African Wildlife Foundation in Nairobi, Kenya on how ABCG is tackling complex conservation challenges by strengthening collaboration and…
