The Conservation & Livelihoods Digest
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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.
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Volume 3
Issue 4, December 2024
Issue 3, September 2024
Issue 2, June 2024
Issue 1, March 2024
Volume 2
Issue 4, December 2023
Issue 3, September 2023
Issue 2, June 2023
Issue 1, March 2023
Volume 1
Issue 4, December 2022 – Special Issue on IWC and CITES
Issue 3, September 2022
Issue 2, June 2022
Issue 1, March 2022
Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2024
Contents
- EDITORIAL
Conservation, culture and climate action - ARTICLE
Main outcomes of the 69th meeting of the International Whaling Commission - OPINION
Evaluating the outcomes of IWC69 - OPINION
Outlook for the application of the sustainable use principle in light of IWC69 and the upcoming CITES CoP20 - ARTICLE
From the underground to the Olympics — Environmental advocacy in the lyrics of Earth Crisis and Gojira - REVIEW ARTICLE
Rather science than miracle: the Feeding of the 5,000 - ARTICLE
Has precipitation in Europe increased? - ARTICLE
On the potential collapse of the Gulf Stream - ARTICLE
Communal climate action in Germany bridges the gap between local efforts and global goals - FILM REVIEW
Captain Paul Watson: the grand illusion
Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2024
Contents
- EDITORIAL
Science, ethics, and human livelihoods or the tale of rethinking conservation - ARTICLE
Decoding whale communication through AI might be the new frontier of marine conservation - VIEW
The significance of limited documentation in the lead-up to IWC69 - OPINION
The International Whaling Commission cannot duck the human right to adequate food - SUMMARY
“Dismantle ‘zombie’ wildlife protection conventions once their work is done”, published in Nature - ARTICLE
What is legal personhood of parts of the natural environment? - ARTICLE
The Māori Declaration on Legal Personhood for Whales: Bridging ancestral wisdom and modern conservation - ARTICLE
The impact of the rise of the far right in Europe on environmental protection - ARTICLE
Electric vehicles (EVs), hybrids, and internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles — Which is best for the environment? - ARTICLE
Biodiversity or climate change: what to protect first? - BOOK REVIEW
Michael Paul’s “Der Kampf um den Nordpol. Die Arktis, der Klimawandel und die Rivalität der Großmächte” - IN THE MEDIA
– Sweden allows nearly 500 bears to be shot in a short period of time
– When forests migrate
– Namibia: How wildlife conservation and tourism are interconnected
Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2024
Contents
- EDITORIAL
Balancing biodiversity and human prosperity - ARTICLE
The Bern Process and its role in global conservation - ARTICLE
The evolution of livelihoods within CITES: a historical perspective - ARTICLE
Dark extinction: unveiling the hidden loss of biodiversity - MEETING REPORT
Summary of the 31st NAMMCO Council Meeting - ARTICLE
Navigating the BBNJ Agreement: implications for Nauru’s deep sea mining ambitions - ARTICLE
Distinguishing zoonotic diseases from human rights considerations in CITES’ mandate - TOOL
Exploring future climate projections with CityApp - NEWS
Sellheim Environmental expands its reach with new social media outlets - IN THE MEDIA
– ÖVP accuses Environment Minister of approving EU law
– Do farmers now have to count butterflies?
Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2024
Contents
- Eco echoes: Latest updates, insights and foresights
- ARTICLE
The state of the world’s ice caps - ARTICLE
Norway’s controversial decision to open its seabed to mining operations - REVIEW ARTICLE
Humankind’s ‘war’ against birds - ARTICLE
Digitalisation and the democratisation of environmental monitoring - BOOK REVIEW
Alabrese, Bessa, Bruno and Guiggioli’s ‘The United Nations’ Declaration on Peasants’ Rights’ - NEWS
– Introducing the CITES Resolutions Depository
– Introducing our new Fellow, Gerald Zojer - IN THE MEDIA
– How AI can help protect species – New orca species discovered? Researchers find clues
– Ministry: authorisation for wolf shooting still valid.
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2023
Contents
- EDITORIAL
Onwards into 2024! - ARTICLE
Was the 28th UN Climate Summit a success? - FIELD REPORT
Bequia, St Vincent & the Grenadines - ARTICLE
Communicating with whales through AI? - BOOK REVIEW
Ryan Tucker Jones’ ‘Red Leviathan — The Secret History of Soviet Whaling’ - SUMMARY ARTICLE
Agriculture was the key to Transeurasian language spread - IN THE MEDIA
– Brazilian parliament makes protected areas for indigenous people more difficult
– “Protected” instead of “strictly protected” — status of the wolf to be lowered
– Environmental organisations want to prevent lifts on Tyrolean glaciers
– First international polar summit calls for protection of glaciers
Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2023
- EDITORIAL
Toward a busy fall - ARTICLE
Sworn to a great divide: The controversial EU Nature Restoration Law - ARTICLE
Uncontrolled weed growth challenges local water activities in rural Germany - ARTICLE
Whaling activities have resumed in Iceland and Japan, and the world speaks out. Does it? - ARTICLE
How representative is the Whaling Commission’s Scientific Committee? - BOOK REVIEW
Michael Paul’s ‘Der Kampf um den Nordpol’ [‘The battle for the North Pole’] - NEWS
Sellheim Environmental selected to conduct indigenous rights survey for IWC
Book Announcement: Sellheim/Morishita ‘Japan’s withdrawal from international whaling regulation’
Welcoming Dr Natalia Loukacheva to Sellheim Environmental - IN THE MEDIA
António Guterres presents UN states with “rescue plan” for sustainability
Shooting of wolves — Lemke remains too vague
UNESCO warns against further oil and gas production in the Wadden Sea - MEETING REPORT
Scaling up EU Impact to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2023
Contents
- EDITORIAL
A multi-topical summer - ARTICLE
The BBNJ Agreement — The cure against marine biodiversity loss? - ARTICLE
Billions will face challenges due to global warming - ARTICLE
Silencing the screaming — The discovery of rare earth metals in Sweden - MEETING REPORT
Fisheries in the Global Framework of Biodiversity post-2020 - ARTICLE
Woman the provider! On the perceived gender roles in hunter/gatherer and fishing societies - BOOK REVIEW
Eugène Lapointe’s ‘Wildlife Betrayed. Why prohibition is bad for conservation and development’ - IN THE MEDIA
Lower Saxony’s environment minister receives death threat
Australia’s parliament paves way for referendum on indigenous rights
Nature conservation sinks into polemics
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?
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