11/10/2025
11:00 - 11:45
Human-Centred Conservation Pavilion
, Morning
Pourquoi participer
Explore how secure resource rights empower communities to lead conservation. Lesle Jansen introduces Biocultural Community Protocols, showing how Indigenous Peoples in Africa assert legal and customary authority over land and biodiversity. Aibat Muzbay highlights Central Asia’s collaborative wild sheep governance, demonstrating how shared rights underpin ecological success and community benefit.
Description de la séance
This session explores how secure and recognized resource rights underpin effective and just conservation. Lesle Jansen presents Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs), community-led instruments that articulate Indigenous laws, governance, and responsibilities toward land and biodiversity. BCPs provide a legally recognized framework for engagement with governments, companies, researchers, and NGOs, empowering communities to safeguard sustainable use of natural resources while responding to conservation and development opportunities. Complementing this, Aibat Muzbay presents Central Asia’s Wild Sheep Working Group under WISPA-CA, which brings together governments, communities, and researchers to address fragmented governance. By establishing collaborative decision-making and shared responsibilities, this model aligns ecological goals with community rights, securing species survival and local benefits. Participants will gain practical insights into how legal recognition, customary governance, and regional cooperation can translate community authority into tangible, sustainable conservation outcomes.Organised by
Jamma International ( United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland )
Moderator
Securing Rights, Sustaining Nature: Community-Led Conservation in Action
Speaker
IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy 2021-2025
Securing Rights, Sustaining Nature: Community-Led Conservation in Action