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African Wildlife Economy Colloquium

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Die Stal Alumni Clubhouse

Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Registration

Online participation - Please register here to join online

In-person participation - seating is very limited & there is now a waiting list - Please make a request here

The African Wildlife Economy Colloquium is a forward-looking event designed to bring together leading experts, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore and unlock the potential of Africa's wildlife economy. 

The Colloquium is hosted by the African Wildlife Economy Institute, Stellenbosch University in partnership with 

Agenda

We have endeavoured to design a forward-looking meeting that builds on presentations of research and projects and leads into interactive panel discussions on priorities for impactful research and projects to unlock and scale up Africa's wildlife economy. The general sessions are as follows: 

Day 1

Mon 04 Nov - 12:00-18:30

Session 1 Enabling laws and policies for the wildlife economy

Session 2 Standards and certification for sustainable wildlife use

Session 3 Special panel on liberalising intra-African wildlife trade

Reception

Day 2

Tue 05 Nov - 08:00-19:30

Session 4 Fostering equitable wildlife economies

Session 5 Towards a sustainable wild meat sector

Session 6 Special panel on the ethics of hunting

Session 7 Wild health for people and ecosystems

Session 8 Governance in wildlife economies

Braai

Day 3

Wed 06 Nov - 08:00-13:30

Session 9 Landscape approaches to wildlife enterprise

Session 10 Financing the wildlife economy

Session 11 Special panel on action for resilient wildlife economies

Speakers

Full programme to follow

More info

As the Colloquium will be streamed online, videos of the sessions will also be made available afterwards.

We are planning to publish a compendium of the abstracts and are exploring opportunities to publish some or all of the papers together in a volume or a special edition of a journal. 

Any questions? Any suggestions? Please contact us at awei@sun.ac.za.

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