09/10/2025
15:30 - 16:15
IUCN Commissions Knowledge Hub
, Onsite
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.Organised by
Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy
Partners
Eastern and Southern Africa Region
International Institute for Sustainable Development.
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