Kenya: Global Conservationists Meet to Boost Efforts in Africa
Openning Ceremony of the IUCN Africa Conservation Forum in Nairobi Kenya, June 2024 Photo: @IUCN
June 28, 2024 Hour: 6:58 pm
IUCN Director General Grethel Aguilar said that the African continent is facing significant challenges due to the dual crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss.
On Thursday, international conservationists met in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, on to seek ways of enhancing conservation efforts in Africa.
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The conference, organized by the International Union of the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) which is the first of its kind in Africa, is expected to come up with resolutions that will help transform responses to the biodiversity loss amid the climate crisis in Africa.
IUCN Director General Grethel Aguilar said that the African continent is facing significant challenges due to the dual crisis of climate change and biodiversity loss.
“The continent is severely impacted, necessitating the need for coordinated nature-climate action at the regional level,” Aguilar told participants from across the world.
The three-day forum, whose theme is “African solutions for nature and people — creating transformative responses to the biodiversity and climate crisis in Africa,” is being attended by 700 delegates.
Razan Al Mubarak, president of the IUCN, said that there is a need for partnerships with the private sector to drive the conservation agenda. She called for public and private partnerships in the management of conservation to help create green jobs alongside protecting the environment.
David Obura, chairman of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, a body that seeks to improve the interface between science and policy on issues of biodiversity and ecosystem services, called for the need to create transformative responses to the biodiversity and climate crisis in Africa.
“We need to welcome investors in the biodiversity conservation agenda to boost African solutions in the conservation of nature,” Obura said.
The delegates recognized the role played by indigenous communities in the management of nature in the continent, and suggested that countries draw up plans so they can as well benefit from the revenue generated from natural resources such as game reserves.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: Africanews-The Independent
