ICCAs were the highlight of the Tenure and Access Rights capacity building session of the CSO Forum for the ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry (AWG-SF) held in Da Nang, Vietnam last June 24-25. The CSO Forum is an annual gathering organized by NTFP-EP to get inputs and recommendations from NGOs and indigenous and local communities from eight countries on the themes of tenure, safeguards, livelihoods and governance. Read more ▸
Karen Indigenous People in Kamoethway Demonstrate the Importance of Local Solutions and Community Driven Conservation
By: Lijiang Institute of Health and Environment The Liguang Community Conserved Area locates in Liguang Village, Liming Country, Yulong County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, China.… Read more “Liguang Community Conserved Area” ▸
Five Indigenous communities in Sabah have been documenting their community protocols on adat and their ICCAs and engaging with High Court judges and native lawyers to improve recognition of these protocols in both court systems They presented them in front of Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak, and the chairman of the Native Laws, Materials and Cases Committee. Read more ▸
Emblematic ICCA The ICCA of the Tanabag Batak tribe is located in the Municipality of Puerto Princesa – western Philippines, in one of the… Read more “The Tanabag Batak ICCA on Palawan Island” ▸
“You can keep shooting the messenger, but you will run out of bullets before we run out of messengers and, at the end of the day, the message will be heard.” Victoria Tauli-Corpuz – UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples writes about being added to the government’s terror list. Read more ▸
The first peer-to-peer validation procedure meeting was held for the ICCA Registry in China. The Liguang (Nuomadi, in Lisu language) village of Lisu minority people, in Yunnan, was accepted. Read more ▸
Emblematic ICCA Situated in Gadchiroli District of the Maharashtra State (India), the village ofMendha-Lekha is famous for its bio-diverse, dry deciduous forest, but also… Read more “The forest of Mendha-Lekha – ICCA in Maharashtra, India” ▸
Relocation was found to be either ongoing or planned in at least twenty three Protected Areas. Read more ▸
A national level governance assessment was recently held in Tbilisi, Georgia, with IUCN leading a three-day workshop convening key stakeholders in Georgia. Representatives of… Read more “Protected area governance in Georgia” ▸
In the Kerala state of India, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) is bent upon constructing a biomedical waste treatment plant at the Myristica swamps… Read more “India – Myristica swamp, an Adivasi community calls to save a rare ecosystem” ▸
People in Conservation – is the second Newsletter of Kalpavriksh, an ICCA Consortium Founding member. It is a special issue on Good Food For All. Read more ▸
The following document is excerpted from the cover story of the China Weekly 2017 December issue, which is comprised of an introduction to ICCA movement… Read more “China Weekly 2017 December Cover Story: ICCAs in China” ▸
By: Aman Singh (Consortium Council member) and Pratibha Sisodia Farmers of Kerwawal Panchayat in Rajasthan found that by reviving bajra based cropping systems, their… Read more “Reviving millets, reconnecting to cultures” ▸
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) believes that media has an important role to play in the promotion and protection of indigenous peoples’ rights as well as their inclusive participation in decision making and social equity. Read more ▸
By: Iris Beneš, Brod Ecological Society (BED), ICCA Consortium member and Rodion Sulyandziga, Centre for Support of Indigenous Peoples of the North More than 500… Read more “Food Sovereignty matters in both Europe and Central Asia!” ▸
By: CNA, Ponlok Khmer, GRAIN, CIYA and AIPP A new joint report from Community Network in Action (CNA), Ponlok Khmer, GRAIN, Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA), and… Read more “Cambodia: communities in protracted struggle against Chinese sugar companies’ land grab” ▸
By: Ghanimat Azhdari, Steering Committee member of ICCA Consortium with special responsibility for West and Central Asia, and Somayeh Nokarizi, Cenesta Advisor for Georgia As… Read more “Strengthening ICCAs in Georgia” ▸
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