Conservation and Human Rights

Conservation doesn't happen in a vacuum. This report illustrates the growing awareness in recent years of the relationship of international conservation practice to indigenous peoples and local communities, and especially the links between conservation and human rights. The impacts protected areas can have on rural communities - such as evictions and lost access to natural resources - are now under particular scrutiny. Concern is meanwhile rising over the human rights implications of some climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. Yet awareness is also growing of the positive contributions of nature conservation to the rights of people to secure their livelihoods, enjoy healthy and productive environments, and live with dignity.
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