New thinking and funding innovations to sustain community-led conservation are critical in a rapidly changing world. Community-led conservation traditionally relies on tourism and / or trophy hunting to generate benefits/revenue for communities to sustainably manage and live with wildlife on their lands. However, in the face of global pressures, such as the economic situation; climate change; increasing human populations and consumption; illegal wildlife trade; and global and local politics, both trophy hunting and tourism may soon not be able to generate the needed revenue for communities. This will have particularly harsh consequences for future community conservationists. This session will present the results of community conservation practitioners and funding experts collectively identifying additional large-scale beneficiation and incentive opportunities that can provide funding for community-led conservation at the same/higher level as trophy hunting and tourism.
