News: Whakatane Mechanism: Redressing Wrongs, and Securing Rights-Based Conservation
In 2011 in Whakatane (in Aotearoa / New Zealand) the Mechanism was initiated by IUCN, indigenous representatives, FPP and CI as one way to implement relevant 2008 IUCN WCC resolutions, including 4.052’s call for a “mechanism to address and redress the effects of historic and current injustices against indigenous peoples in the name of conservation of nature and natural resources”.