GWP NEWSLETTER | NOVEMBER 2021
|
|
Dear GWP Friends and Colleagues, |
|
We’re excited to share lots of new tools and resources with you.
In September, we launched the Collaborative Management Partnership (CMP) Toolkit—a comprehensive review of CMPs in Africa and a reference guide for governments and implementing partners who are considering CMPs as a way to address challenges and threats to protected areas and wildlife. You can read more about the toolkit below, including how to re-watch the launch event; related resources can be found here.
The past few months have been busy with more GEF-7 projects starting implementation, including Bhutan and Angola, and a continued focus on knowledge events. In early October, the GWP partnered with Colorado State University’s Center for Protected Area Management for the Conference on Protected Area Tourism in a Post-COVID World. Additionally, after a successful training workshop held in June 2021 on human-wildlife conflict, Dr. Alexandra Zimmermann led another phase of the training November 3–4 on “Human dimensions and social psychology”.
This year’s GWP Annual Conference: Working Together for Wildlife Conservation will take place November 30–December 2, 2021. The conference will share lessons and ideas on how to successfully collaborate, engage, and empower stakeholders to support wildlife conservation and sustainable livelihoods. The conference will focus on working together across GWP projects and regions, and working with communities, government, and new sectors and partners. We look forward to connecting with many of you there.
As always, we hope that through collaboration and coordination we can work together— so reach out to the team at gwp-info@worldbank.org with any recommendations. Our newsletter is now available in French and Spanish so please share these resources with your peers and colleagues.
|
|
Warm regards, the GWP Team |
|
A BIG thank you to Elisson Wright! |
|
Elisson now co-leads the World Bank’s Wildlife Conservation Bond operation in South Africa and collaborates on efforts related to innovative finance and mobilizing finance at scale for nature and climate action.
On behalf of us all, we thank Elisson for his dedication, warmth, and commitment to conservation!
|
|
Have you seen our latest Instagram videos for
World Rhino Day & World Elephant Day?
|
|
This video in honor of World Rhino Day interviews two SANParks Environmental Monitors from the local community who were trained at Wildlife College through a range of partner organizations. The South African government through the Dept. of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries and SANParks, in partnership with the GEF, UNEP, Peace Parks Foundation, Dept. of Agriculture State Veterinary Services, WWF and local communities living around Kruger National Park are implementing the Environmental Monitors Program as part of the GWP and ongoing conservation efforts in and around the park. This initiative helps reduce poaching, provides jobs to community members, and seeks to improve partnerships, community relationships and perceptions towards protected areas. |
|
In honor of World Elephant Day, this video portrays two scenarios:
A future Planet Earth without elephants, and one where they flourish.
|
|
GWP recently launched the Collaborative Management Partnership (CMP) Toolkit |
|
CMPs are a type of PPP used in the conservation sector to improve protected area management and support sustainable development. The Collaborative Management Partnership Toolkit is a resource guide to support the identification and establishment of such partnerships. It raises awareness on the role of these partnerships in reducing the massive protected area funding gap, catalyzing rural development and supporting job creation.
The toolkit includes case studies on existing CMPs in the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, that are led by the governments in partnership with organizations and communities like African Parks, WWF, Frankfurt Zoological Society, Greg Carr Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Makuleke Community, and African Wildlife Foundation.
Three interactive story maps highlight these CMP’s:
|
|
Making room for the snow leopard: maintaining the delicate balance of wildlife in the Himalayas |
|
This photo story was launched on Snow Leopard Day by the SECURE Himalaya project, part of the GWP. The project is working to develop a holistic tourism model as a sustainable solution to generate new livelihoods that support snow leopard conservation and help communities access resources from government schemes and programs to build homestays and other basic amenities. The project is implemented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, government of India and the Department of Wildlife Protection, Union Territory Administration of Ladakh, and UNDP. |
|
Forensics for Wildlife: Analyzing DNA from seized elephant ivory adds teeth to the fight against IWT |
|
Wildlife DNA forensics has the potential to hold traffickers accountable for the crimes they commit against wildlife. To advance the use and application of wildlife DNA forensics, a number of GWP projects are supporting greater coordination and exchange of validated population data, reference samples and protocols, and the establishment of a network of accredited wildlife DNA forensic laboratories. |
|
Impacts of Taking, Trade and Consumption of Terrestrial Migratory Species for Wild Meat |
|
This report prepared for the Convention on Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) Secretariat by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) identifies the impacts of wild meat taking, trade, and consumption of terrestrial species that are protected by the CMS. It found that wild meat is often a key use and major driver for legal and illegal hunting and has led to drastic declines and extinctions of several migratory terrestrial mammal populations. Taking for domestic consumption rather than international trade was found to be a larger concern for most CMS terrestrial species and significantly increases the risk of future zoonotic diseases. The report recommends strengthening national hunting laws and regulations and capacity for monitoring and enforcement, further research on drivers, and greater international cooperation. |
|
Indigenous Territorial Management and Community-based Natural Resource Management Toolkit |
|
WCS has developed a toolkit (in Spanish) that captures lessons from 20 years of working with indigenous peoples and local communities in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador on territorial management and natural resource management. The toolkit was developed to be used through a portable multimedia and interactive application and designed to facilitate community participation and generate consensus among indigenous peoples and local communities.
|
|
ROUTES Partnership is coming to a close, but resources still available online |
|
The USAID Reducing Opportunities for Unlawful Transport of Endangered Species (ROUTES) Partnership is ending and just held its final meeting in mid-October. The partnership brought together transport and logistics companies, government agencies, development groups, law enforcement, conservation organizations, and donors to disrupt wildlife trafficking by reducing opportunities for unlawful transport of endangered wildlife in the air transport sector—now, and in the future. The partnership was funded by USAID and coordinated by TRAFFIC. Under ROUTES a wide range of resources were developed including awareness videos, an ACI Combatting Wildlife Trafficking e-module, posters, infographics, research, and reports (summarized here).
The ROUTES website and its incredible range of resources will continue to be available to help the aviation sector combat wildlife trafficking into the future.
|
|
WWF survey shows consumer demand for elephant ivory in China remains in decline |
|
WWF has conducted the largest consumer survey about ivory trade in China – 2,000 people in 15 cities – for five consecutive years with GlobeScan. The 2021 survey shows that consumer demand for elephant ivory in China remains on a downward trajectory since the national ban took effect in 2018, but that there was a very small increase in self-reported ivory purchases and future intention to purchase in 2021 compared to 2020. |
|
Exploring the interconnection between human and natural systems: unlocking the potential of an integrated land-use approach |
|
The number of initiatives on integrated land use that look beyond sector-focused development projects has grown substantially over the last decade.
|
|
Replay GWP's Virtual Knowledge Events |
|
October 2021:
This webinar explored the intersection and dynamics between gender and IWT along the chain from source to market. Joni Seager, lead author and Professor of Global Studies at Bentley University, presented WWF’s recent publication Gender & Illegal Wildlife Trade: Overlooked and Underestimated, followed by a lively discussion led by Valerie Hickey, Practice Manager, World Bank.
Tamara Leger introduced participants to WWF’s online digital gender toolkit, which provides step-by-step support to integrate gender into IWT planning.
|
|
Other past webinars can be found here.
To receive regular updates about virtual events email:
|
|
Follow the GWP on Twitter via @WBG_Environment |
|
Subscribe to the GWP Newsletter here
GWP Program Video:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
