The Consortium joined forces with WILD10 to organise a number of events and offer speakers for presentations during the Indigenous & Community Lands & Seas Forum (ICLS Forum) that took place in Salamanca (Spain) on 8-10, 2013.
The descriptions of two main events are available here:
- Indigenous peoples, traditional communities, “wilderness” and nature – Exploring a revealing paradox
In this panel discussion representatives of indigenous peoples and traditional communities from various continents illustrated – with words, pictures, presence and sounds – their notion and experience of “nature”.
English | French | Spanish - Governing wilderness”? Why? Who? How?
This workshop introduced and discussed the concept of “governance” of protected areas and of nature/wilderness in general and explored how indigenous peoples and traditional communities understand the idea of governing/ being governed by nature.
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Press release
- WILD10 Congress Highlights the Role of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in Conserving Wilderness
- El Congreso WILD10 Resalta el Rol de los Pueblos Indígenas y las Comunidades Locales en la Conservación de la Naturaleza
Salamanca, España –A lo largo de una intensa semana de intercambios y debates, científicos, académicos, activistas y pueblos indígenas de diversas organizaciones y comunidades de todo el mundo se dieron cita en el congreso WILD 10, el X Congreso Mundial Silvestre, para debatir sobre la conservación de la naturaleza. Leer más…
ICCA Presentations at WILD-10 – Exploring a Revealing Paradox
- WILDERNESS AND THE ‘YGOLOTE’ – Giovanni Reyes, The Philippines
- WILDERNESS Y NATURALEZA – ¿Qué significa para el PUEBLO SHUAR ARUTAM? – Raúl Petsain, Ecuador
- TLA-O-QUI-AHT Tribal Parks Ecological Governance – Eli Enns, Canada
- Wilderness, Dense Forests, Woodlands, Grasslands, Rockscapes – Gathuru Mburu, Kenya
- La Naturaleza en la Cosmovisión Maya – Felipe Gomez, Guatemala
- Tao People of Pongso no Tao – Sutej Hugu, Taiwan, Province of China
- Nomads in Iran – Taghi Farvar
ICCA Presentations at WILD-10 – Governing Wilderness
- Governance of well-‐conserved nature (“wilderness”) – the role of indigenous peoples and local communities – Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Switzerland
- Gobernanza Territorial del Bosque Comunal por más de 400 Años: Un Digno Ejemplo de los Mayas Kiches de los 48 Cantones de Totonicapan – Guatemala – Felipe Gómez, Guatemala
- The ‘Bañados del Isoso’ of Bolivia – Carmen Miranda, Bolivia
- Sacred Natural Sites of Kenya: Potentiating for Self-‐protection – Gathuru Mburu, Kenya
- KISIMBOSA (Territoire fertile) – Un espace CULTUREL communautaire Villages de Kissa –Lufito-‐ Busisi – Kambushi (Territoire de Walikale) – Joseph Itongwa, Congo
- Proceso de Autogobierno Shuar Cordillera del Cóndor Pueblos Shuar Arutam – Raúl Petsain, Ecuador
- The Tao people of Pongso no Tao Refuse a Protected Area and Develop an Island-wide Coalition to Assert their Rights – Sutej Hugu, Taiwan, Province of China
- La Importancia de los Usos Comunales, y sus Sistemas de Gobernanza en la Conservación de la Biodiversidad en España: las ICCA – Sergio Couto, España
- Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks: Ecological Governance – Eli Enns, Canada
- Ancestral Domains, ICCAs & the Philippine ICCA Consortium – Giovanni Reyes, The Philippines
- Effective Governance and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources based on the Values of the FOKONOLONA in Madagascar – Vololoniaina Rasoarimanana, Madagascar
- Coalitions, Federations & Unions of Indigenous Nomadic Tribes (INTs) in Iran – Taghi Farvar, Iran