Human-rights based approaches to conservation – Lessons learned from safeguarding implementation and launch of new web-based assessment tool

Conservation interventions can have adverse human rights impacts affecting a wide range of stakeholders. Conservation funding and implementing actors have increasingly advanced environmental and social safeguarding, including human-rights based approaches in their operations to help address these issues.
LLF, being a funding instrument for area-based conservation, will introduce its Environmental and Social Safeguards System and partner organizations, including Indigenous representatives, will showcase practical examples of safeguards implementation and opportunities and challenges that come with it. A new web-based human rights due diligence tool, under development by DLA Piper, a world leading law firm engaged in conservation, will be launched.