The Conservation & Livelihoods Digest

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

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.’

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

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’

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?