10/10/2025
16:00 - 17:30
Conference Hall A: Session Room 5
, Hybrid
Session with interpretation
Why attend
Join practitioners across regions and disciplines to explore the potential to apply social and behavior change approaches to wildlife conservation, current knowledge and capacity gaps, and opportunities to achieve lasting change across themes of illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade, human-wildlife conflict, and unsustainable tourism.
Session Description
Social and behavior change is crucial for biodiversity conservation as it addresses the actions and choices of people, as the indirect drivers of all threats to wild species. Behavior change is the process of altering human actions by targeting a specific audience and using insights into the context and timing of the action – either to discourage detrimental behavior or encourage a desired one. It is frequently used in health, education, and public policy, to date has seldom been applied to wildlife management, although interest is growing. Join the GEF-funded, World Bank-led Global Wildlife Program for an interactive discussion of behavior change, exploring entry points across human-wildlife coexistence, illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade, and unsustainable tourism practices. Targeting experienced practitioners and those new to behavior change, this session will consider behaviors change to support long-term wildlife conservation/sustainable use goals, and enable sharing of experiences, knowledge gaps and capacity needs.Organised by
The Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Partners
Speaker
Moderator
