Participants from the 2024 'Transforming the Fenceline' course sharing their change projects at the Community Engagement Practitioner conference, October 2024. In the conservation sector, as with many other social and environmental sectors, the people who do the most navigating and hold the greatest knowledge tend to be the least recognised. Community Engagement Practitioners (CEPs) work at the physical fenceline between protected areas and the communities that live alongside

What is the Learning Landscapes approach? “This wasn’t learning for its own sake - it was survival work, care work, movement work. It was learning to stay in dignity and action, rooted in the urgencies that shape our daily lives” – Jane Burt, founding member of realife Learning At its heart, the Learning Landscapes approach recognises that learning should begin with the real experiences of injustice that people live through every day. It acknowledges that all knowledge system

We’re excited to announce our new partnership with the Southern African Wildlife College (SAWC), a long-standing centre of learning rooted in some of the most complex conservation landscapes in the region. For nearly three decades, SAWC has supported rangers, conservation practitioners and natural resource managers to navigate the realities of protecting land, wildlife and livelihoods under immense pressure, from human–wildlife conflict to extractive practices and rapidly shi