10/10/2025
16:00 - 17:30
CR A-C: Forum - Session Room 5
, Hybrid (onsite with livestreaming)
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 are crucial for biodiversity conservation as they address the actions and choices of people, which drive most 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 to change to support long-term wildlife conservation and sustainable use goals, and enable sharing of practitioner experiences, knowledge gaps and capacity needs.Session agenda
Speaker
Diogo VERÍSSIMO
Scaling up behavior change approaches for wildlife conservation: Encouraging actions that benefit wildlife and communities