Co-authored by Joám Evans Pim, from our Member organisation Vilar Woods Commons Community, this paper describes how Frojám and Ladydown Moor ICCAs-Territories of Life are recovering their biocultural values, especially in terms of identity and positive conservation outcomes. Read more ▸
This paper focuses upon loopholes in new laws that could exclude forested lands from collective entitlement, impairing constitutional advances in the process. Ambiguity within the Kenyan Constitution itself plays a role. Therefore, while lesser impediments to land justice may be remedied through clarifying regulations and parliamentary removal of offending clauses, judicial interpretation of constitutional intentions is required. Read more ▸
Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever is a report based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws. Read more ▸
Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, on achieving the ends of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) –
Deadline: 17 March 2018 Read more ▸
Call initiated by The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) – Deadline: 16 March 2018 Read more ▸
Expert Mechanism on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, on free, prior and informed consent – Deadline: 28 February, 2018 Read more ▸
Abstract The aim of this paper was to discover how taboos and totems as belief systems have been used successfully to promote natural resource… Read more “Exploring the African Traditional Belief Systems in Natural Resource Conservation and Management in Ghana” ▸
Evolving hunting practices in Gabon: lessons for community-based conservation interventions. Walters, G., J. Schleicher, O. Hymas, and L. Coad. 2015. Ecology and Society 20(4):31.… Read more “Evolving hunting practices in Gabon: lessons for community-based conservation interventions” ▸
Chimalapas: La defensa del territorio y de los bienes naturales como un factor de identidad indígena, Miguel Ángel García Aguirre, Centro de Estudios para… Read more “Chimalapas: La defensa del territorio y de los bienes naturales como un factor de identidad indígena” ▸
How John Muir’s Brand of Conservation Led to the Decline of Yosemite, By Eric Michael Johnson on August 13, 2014
The Myth of Wilderness in the Brazilian Rainforest, Carlos Diegues, 2010
Social movements and the governance of frontier land for “another development” and conservation in Brazil, Schwartzman et al., 2010
Agenda socioambiental Desde el pensamiento de los Pueblos Mayas Garifumas y Xinkas de Guatemala, Guatemala 15 de Octubre, 2010 (in Spanish)
Governance issues, potentials and failures of participatory collective action in the Kafue Flats, Zambia, Harry Nixon Chabwela and Tobias Haller, International Journal of the… Read more “Governance issues, potentials and failures of participatory collective action in the Kafue Flats, Zambia” ▸
Ecological Civilization, Indigenous Culture and Rural Reconstruction in China, Wen Tiejun et al., Crossroads International Conference at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, June 17–21, 2010
A Century of Institutions and Ecology in East Africa’s Rangelands: Linking Institutional Robustness with the Ecological Resilience of Kenya’s Maasailand, Esther Mwangi and Elinor… Read more “Robust institutions and resilient ecology: linkages in Maasailand (Kenya)” ▸
Controlling the margins: Nature conservation and state power in northeastern Cambodia, Baird, 2009. Pages 215-248 In: Bourdier, Frédéric (ed.), Development and Dominion: Indigenous Peoples of Cambodia,… Read more “Controlling the margins: Nature Conservation and State Power in Northeastern Cambodia” ▸
From Displacement-based Conservation to Place-based Conservation, David Barton Bray and Alejandro Velázquez, 2009
Sacred forests in Madagascar: the local, customary institutions are essential to conserve them! Local protection of tropical dry forest: taboos and ecosystem services in… Read more “Local protection of tropical dry forest: taboos and ecosystem services in southern Madagascar” ▸
Community-Based Conservation: A Reflection on History, Mac Donald, 2003
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