By ALDAW – Ancestral Land/Domain Watch (Member) In addition to the adverse impact of nickel mining on Palawan province (a UNESCO Man & Biosphere… Read more “ALDAW Study Reveals the Adverse Impact of Oil Palm Expansion in Palawan (The Philippines)” ▸
By: Iris Beneš, Regional Coordinator for Northern, Central and Eastern Europe A small island on a Baltic sea called Vilm is a place where… Read more “Governance types in Eastern Europe – is community conservation still present?” ▸
By Marco Bassi (Honorary Member) The concept of “ICCA” was developed by bringing together local experiences from all over the world. If it reflects… Read more “Linking ICCAs to the Italian tradition of common property and civic uses” ▸
By: Vanessa Reid, Communications Officer, and Sudeep Jana (Honorary Member) With a global population having sped past the 7 billion mark, if biodiversity loss… Read more “‘Our disenchanted youth’: discussions on an ICCA Youth Network…” ▸
By Ashish Kothari, Kalpavriksh (Member) and ICCA Consortium Steering Committee member One question that we are often asked is: what is the extent of… Read more “Survey of ICCA global extent” ▸
Por: Lorena Arce, Coordinadora Cono Sur del Consorcio ICCA Algo está cambiando cuando hablamos de conservación en Chile. Las formas tradicionales de entender y… Read more “Segundo Encuentro de “Territorios de Conservación de Pueblos Originarios” – ¿Nace una red de ICCAs en Chile?” ▸
A new Report, “Recognising Sacred Natural Sites and Territories in Kenya”, published in November 2012 by the Institute for Culture and Ecology, African Biodiversity… Read more “Recognising Sacred Natural Sites and Territories in Kenya” ▸
By: Christian Chatelain, Regional Coordinator for West & Central Africa The workshop « Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs) in Democratic… Read more “Recognising ICCAs in Central Africa: DRC moves first!” ▸
By: Isis Alvarez, Global Forest Coalition (Member) On October 20th, a group of people part of the ICCA Consortium went on a field visit… Read more “Photo Essay: Dalit women sanghams – Independance through sustainable livelihoods” ▸
By: Emily Caruso, Regional Programmes Director, Global Diversity Foundation (Member) The author, who works for an organization that is a founding Member of the… Read more “Reflections from a participant in the Symposium “Protected Areas: are they safeguarding biodiversity?” – Zoological Society of London” ▸
This political decision of the Mapuche authorities and the Chair of National Parks broke with decades of imposition in the use of resources and… Read more “The formalization of the establishment of the Intercultural Council of Co-management within the Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina, led by Jorge Nahuel’s advocacy team of the Confederación Mapuche de Neuquén” ▸
Two studies, one on Legal Review and one on Recognition and Support, for ICCA in Canada have been completed. They confirm that in this… Read more “A Gathering for Indigenous People from Canada and USA in September 2012” ▸
Across the Indonesian archipelago, land is being cleared for large-scale oil palm plantation at an alarming rate. This highly complex phenomenon has led to… Read more ““Large-scale oil palm plantations and Indigenous Peoples’ rights” workshop at the Aliansi Maskarakat Adat Nusantari (AMAN) VI Congress, Maluku, Indonesia, April 2012” ▸
In March this year, a small team consisting of Dave De Vera and Sam Pedragosa of PAFID and Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend and Vanessa Reid from… Read more “The Kalahan Community “Photo-Story” and “Resilience and Security Tool” pilot-study, North Luzon, The Philippines, March 2012: A Consortium and PAFID collaborative project” ▸
On the 27 – 29 March, 2012 in Tirana, Albania GEF Secretariat organized an Extended Constituency Workshop (ECW) for the constituency of the following… Read more “A Global Environment Fund (GEF) Extended Constituency Workshop, Albania” ▸
By: Lorena Arce – Consortium Member I have been working with the Mapu Lahual: a network of nine huilliche communities in the coastal edge… Read more “Mapu Lahual network: a claim for appropriate recognition in Southern Chile” ▸
By: Neema Pathak-Broome (neema.pb@gmail.com) This workshop was organised by by the Taiwan Forest Bureau, Tamkang University, National Taiwan University, Taipei Municipal University of Education,… Read more “Workshop on: ‘Governance of Taiwan’s Protected Areas: Recognising Co-Management and Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas’, Taiwan (Province of China), 23-25 August 2011” ▸
By: Stan Stevens Stan Stevens returned to the Mt. Everest region for 6 weeks in November-December 2011, accompanied during the first week by Steering… Read more “Update on Khumbu Sherpa ICCAs in the Mt. Everest Region of Nepal, November-December 2011” ▸
During the mission in Guinea Bissau, the Consortium team had numerous occasions to describe the usefulness of the ICCA approach, including within state-declared protected areas. Read more ▸
By: Francois Depey Returning from the ICCA Consortium gathering that took place in Bali in October 2011 and assembled there a whole crew of… Read more “British Columbia Protected Area Research Forum” ▸
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