Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action
| Autor: | Claudelice Santos, David R. Boyd, Jörg Balsiger, José Aylwin, Mary Menton, Fran Lambrick, Hannah Storey, Michel Forst, Susan Wilding, Philippe Le Billon, Peter Bille Larsen |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Bille Larsen, Peter |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
conservation conflict Civil society Conservation conflict Evolution media_common.quotation_subject ddc:354.3 environmental defenders 390 Customs etiquette & folklore Extractivism QH1-199.5 Violence 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Indigenous Social policy 2309 Nature and Landscape Conservation Biodiversity conservation Behavior and Systematics global biodiversity framework Political science Human rights civil society Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common Nature and Landscape Conservation Governance Ecology 300 Social sciences sociology & anthropology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Corporate governance General. Including nature conservation geographical distribution Environmental ethics Environmental defenders 10246 Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies 790 Sports games & entertainment 1105 Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Action (philosophy) governance extractivism Global biodiversity framework 2303 Ecology Global biodiversity |
| Zdroj: | Conservation Letters (2020) Conservation Letters, Vol 14, Iss 3, Pp n/a-n/a (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1755-263X |
| Popis: | Close to two thousand environmental human rights defenders have been killed in 57 countries since 2002, with about four losing their lives every week in 2019. Many of these defenders represent Indigenous Peoples and local communities protecting ecosystems from large‐scale environmentally destructive projects. As the positive contributions of Indigenous and local communities to biodiversity conservation become better recognized, so should the losses and risks that they face. Despite major efforts at documenting abuses and protecting defenders, many blind spots and gaps remain. Here, we call for the conservation community to put the protection of defenders at the heart of its strategy to slow down and reverse the current onslaught on the environment. The conservation community can respond in a number of ways including reaching out to its constituencies, working together with the human rights community, and mobilizing its networks, field offices, and presence in remote areas to denounce abuses and counter isolation. In doing so the conservation community can advance the collective agenda bringing together conservation and environment‐related human rights through the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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