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Africa Wildlife Economy Colloquium

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Die Stal Alumni Clubhouse, Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Hosted by the African Wildlife Economy Institute, Stellenbosch University

In partnership with 

  • Center for Conservation Social Sciences, Cornell University
  • Oppenheimer Generations Research and Conservation
  • ShareScreen Africa
  • Southern African Wildlife College
  • Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford

Are you working on the wildlife economy in Africa?

The Colloquium will be a unique opportunity to present your work and to engage in strategic discussions on scaling up Africa's wildlife economy.

Please click here to submit your abstract 

... by 04 Sep please

(Registration for in person and online participation will open at a later date.)

The Global Biodiversity Framework targets for the wildlife economy

Target 5. Ensure that the use, harvesting and trade of wild species is sustainable, safe and legal...

Target 9. Ensure that the management and use of wild species are sustainable, thereby providing social, economic and environmental benefits for people...
Agenda

Indicative programme

The AWEI Colloquium will take place from midday Mon 04 Nov to midday Wed 06 Nov.

We aim to design a forward-looking meeting building on presentations of research and projects and leading into interactive panel discussions on priorities for impactful research and projects to unlock and scale up Africa's wildlife economy.

The schedule below sets out indicative programme clustered around AWEI's four priority research themes - wild policy, wild enterprise, wild meat, and wild standards. The final programme will be structured to best cluster the accepted presentations for stimulating and constructive discussion.

Mon 04 Nov – afternoon & evening
12:00 Registration and refreshments
12:30 Welcome and opening remarks

Session 1 Wild Policy

This session explores barriers and opportunities to enhancing policies, laws and regulations to support the Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF) targets to ensure the management, harvesting, use, and trade of wild species is sustainable, safe, legal, and beneficial to people taking note of developments such as African Continental Free Trade Area and the SARC wildlife-based economy framework
13:00 3 presentations followed by Q&A
14:30 Coffee
15:00 3 presentations followed by Q&A
16:30 Panel discussion on promising pathways
17:30  Reception

Tue 05 Nov – all day
08:00 Recap of the first day

Session 2 Wild Enterprise

This session explores the potential for a diversification off wildlife-based and wildlife-friendly enterprise as an area-based measure for restoring and complex socio-ecological landscapes particularly with respect to the GBF target to conserve 30% of areas by 2030.
08:30 3 presentations followed by Q&A
10:00 Coffee
10:30 3 presentations followed by Q&A
12:00 Panel discussion on promising pathways
13:00 Lunch

Session 3 Wild Meat

The session explores the potential for developing a vibrant and sustainable wild meat sector across Africa taking note of the guidance provided by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the wild meat strategies of countries such as Tanzania, South Africa, and Zambia.
14:00 3 presentations followed by Q&A
15:30 Coffee
16:00 3 presentations followed by Q&A
17:30 Panel discussion on promising pathways
18:30  Dinner

Wed 06 Nov - morning
08:00 Recap of the second day

Session 4 Wild Standards

CITES provides an internationally system for enable the sustainable and legal trade of products from endangered wild fauna and flora. Through voluntary standards and certification, there are opportunities to complement CITES by ensuring the sustainable and legal trade of products from non-endangered wildlife as well by providing assurance on other priorities such as safety and benefitting people.
08:30 3 presentations followed by Q&A
10:00 Coffee
10:30 3 presentations followed by Q&A
12:00 Panel discussion on promising pathways
13:00 Thank you and closing remarks
13:30 Refreshments
More info

As the AWEI 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.

Related links

Please submit your abstract here