The Conservation & Livelihoods Digest
About The Digest
The link between conservation strategies and livelihoods has been identified as crucial for
effective conservation outcomes. The Conservation & Livelihoods Digest serves as a platform to discuss this link in more detail.
In order to present different views, we publish easy-to-read research articles, conference reports, book reviews or commentaries on a quarterly basis.
Irrespective of your stance regarding the role livelihoods play for conservation, if you wish to contribute to The Digest, please send an email to:
info@sellheimenvironmental.org
We are looking forward to your contributions to stimulate further discussion!
Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2023

Contents
- EDITORIAL
Are the tides changing? - ARTICLE
The United Nations adopt treaty to protect and sustainably use the high seas - VIEW
Negotiations of the High Seas Treaty (BBNJ): Some reflections - ARTICLE
What’s ‘historic’ about the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and its 30×30 target? - REVIEW ARTICLE
The scientific basis of the 30×30 Target - ARTICLE
What is the ‘ecosystem’? On the principle or the approach in international environmental law? - ARTICLE
The sidelining of indigenous peoples and local communities in CITES media coverage - FILM REVIEW
Killing the Shepherd by Tom Opre - ARTICLE
The myth of the hafgufa as an example of traditional ecological knowledge - MOVIE REVIEW
Avatar: The Way of Water by James Cameron
Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2022
A SPECIAL ISSUE on the IWC and CITES

Contents
- EDITORIAL
A post-pandemic fall? The meetings of the IWC and CITES - VIEW
Whales, sharks, trees & livelihoods: time to end the invisibility of non-extractive users of nature - INSIGHT
A brief glimpse into the International Whaling Commission - ARTICLE
The blurry question of the quorum - ARTICLE
The South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary — A clash of principles - ARTICLE
The tabled resolution on food security - ARTICLE
A brief glimpse into CITES - ARTICLE
Brazil’s proposed transfer of pernambuco from Appendix II to Appendix I - ARTICLE
Insufficient concerns for indigenous peoples and local communities - VIEW
The birds and the bees missing at CITES CoP19 in Panama - BOOK REVIEW
Tanya Wyatt’s ‘Is CITES Protecting Wildlife? Assessing Implementation and Compliance.’
Volume 1, Issue 3, September 2022

Contents
- EDITORIAL
A summer to remember - ARTICLE
The UN recognises the right to a clean environment as a human right - ARTICLE
Origins of mass die-off of fish in the Oder River still unknown, but algae likely to be the culprit - SUMMARY ANALYSIS
The IPBES Report on Sustainable Use of Wild Species - VIDEO REVIEW
‘Die Recyclinglüge’ (‘The recycling-lie’) - RESEARCH NOTE
Global response of conservationists across mass media likely constrained bat persecution due to COVID-19 - ARTICLE
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants: An overview - BOOK NEWS
‘Non-State Actors in the Arctic Region’, edited by Nikolas Sellheim & Dwayne Ryan Menezes
Volume 1, Issue 2, June 2022

Contents:
- EDITORIAL
A forceful reshaping of the world - ARTICLE
How does the war in Ukraine affect environmental cooperation in the Arctic and in the Barents region? - REPORT
A humanitarian mission to the Polish-Ukrainian border by the ‘Ukraine Hilfe Hambühren’ - ARTICLE
Violence in the name of conservation. Forced evictions of the indigenous Batwa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - BOOK REVIEW
Kathryn Yusoff’s ‘A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None’ - ARTICLE
NGOs and marine mammal governance — Reconciling diverging views on the Canadian commercial seal hunt - VIDEO REVIEW
‘Sealing our fate — An ocean of hypocrisy’
Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2022

Contents:
- EDITORIAL
Making conservation work? The need for a focus on conservation and livelihoods - ARTICLE
Armed conflict and the military in international environmental law - VIEW
Eastern Canada’s right whale issue - REPORT
The 74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee - OPINION
Social activism - ARTICLE
Hambühren (Germany) on its way to become a sustainable municipality - BOOK REVIEW
Doug Bock Clark’s ‘The last whalers. The life of an endangered tribe in a land left behind.’ - ARTICLE
Biodiversity offsetting — Damaging livelihoods or saving them?