Writers: Susan Kandel and Andrew Davis of the PRISMA Foundation, an environment and development research center based in El Salvador
Report: Conservation and Community Rights: Lessons from Mesoamerica. A report by the PRISMA Foundation for COP13, the thirteenth conference of the parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2016.
This collaborative research report shows how land and resource rights for indigenous peoples and traditional communities are key to conserving biodiversity, presenting evidence from case studies across Mesoamerica. The report garnered extensive media coverage around the world, including in The Guardian and Mongabay.