Environmental Change and Migration

09/10/2025

15:00 - 16:00

IUCN Commissions Knowledge Hub

Delivering on Equity Scaling Up Resilient Conservation Action

Why attend

Migration of people and species shapes conservation outcomes. Understanding movement patterns driven by environment and conflict helps anticipate pressures. Effective responses require policy innovation and cross-sectoral collaboration, equipping conservation planners and managers to adapt and sustain objectives amid complex, dynamic migration events.

Session Description

Environmental change, migration, and conservation are at a key intersection point, this session looks at their emerging interconnections and how we might rethink conservation action as a result. As climate disruptions, resource degradation, and conflict increasingly drive people and other species to move, conservation strategies must consider inclusive, adaptive, and justice-based approaches in conflict-sensitive ways. Through dialogue among experts, and practitioners, the session will examine how governance models, protected area management, and policy frameworks can evolve to address the needs and rights of displaced and mobile populations, while planning for broader potential species movement. Emphasis will be placed on the role of local communities, Indigenous Peoples and youth in shaping solutions that are both ecologically sound and socially equitable, and the need to integrate human and other species migrations in conservation planning, policy and adaptive management.

Organized by

Species Survival Commission

Partners

Environmental Law Institute ( United States of America )

Conservation International ( United States of America )

Eastern and Southern Africa Region

Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy

International Institute for Sustainable Development ( Canada )