The United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) independent watchdog visited Myanmar to investigate a large conservation project posing grave risks to indigenous communities in the Tanintharyi Region, an area of the country that has seen decades of armed conflict during Myanmar’s 70-year civil war. Read more ▸
Kenya’s National Environmental Tribunal handed down judgment on the challenge to the Lamu coal plant license on Wednesday, 26 June 2019. A challenge brought by the communities of Lamu and Kenyan civil society organisations, including Natural Justice, an ICCA Consortium Member. Read more ▸
Ashish Kothari, Member of the Council of Elders, active with Kalpavriksh and Vikalp Sangam in India, puts the Territories of Life as key participants in the fundamental transformation towards justice and sustainability the planet is in dire need of. Read more ▸
The recent decision by the India Supreme Court has enormous potential ramifications for conservation, livelihoods, and rights in India’s protected areas and other forest lands, as explained in this blog by Stan Stevens and Neema Pathak, some of the initiators of the ICCA Consortium. Read more ▸
Co-organised by Interreg Nord Summer Whitefish and Snowchange Cooperative, the Festival of Northern Fishing Traditions has concluded successfully in Tornio, Finland. Over 150 small-scale and Indigenous fisher women and men around the world joined forces to discuss climate change, traditional knowledge, governance and direct exchanges to meet common challenges. Read more ▸
El CEMI, miembro del Consorcio en Colombia, publicó dos boletines llenos de fotografías, sobre los TICCA y el apoyo estratégico a los TICCA en Colombia. Read more ▸
Entrevista de Mongabay con Ruth Alipaz Cuqui, defensora de los derechos indígenas de la Amazonía de Bolivia, en la cual detalla sobre los daños que ocasionarán los megaproyectos hidroenergéticos proyectados en territorios indígenas. Read more ▸
Nahid Naghizadeh was invited to participate in the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) and to present the work of Cenesta on rangeland landscape restoration and conservation by pastoralist communities in Iran. Read more ▸
Indigenous peoples’ organisations from across Malaysia gathered for a full-day seminar on ICCAs on 8 August 2018 in Bau, Sarawak. Unique to different Indigenous peoples in the three regions of Malaysia, terms such as Pemakai Menua, Pulau Galau, Gompi Guno and Ingaladan represent sophisticated systems of Indigenous customary laws and practices that enable the respective communities to live in harmony with their traditional territories. Read more ▸
Este trabajo sobre el parque nacional Bernardo O’Higgins en el territorio kawésqar waes, en Chile, busca definir una línea base de los recursos naturales, identificar las áreas con distinta vocación de uso, y el potencial económico asociado a actividades de turismo, incorporando los intereses del pueblo originario involucrado ancestralmente con los territorios protegidos. Read more ▸
Líderes de la Confederación Indígena Tayrona (CIT) y de la comunidad de Seykún definen la jurisdicción del cerro sagrado de Seykún para comenzar un proceso piloto de auto-declaración como TICCA. Read more ▸
Dans le cadre de son engagement dans l’accompagnement des communautés détentrices des forêts communautaires et APAC, l’ANAPAC RDC a organisé du jeudi 02 au vendredi 03 août 2018 l’atelier qui a invité les parties prenantes du mouvement autochtone en RDC. Read more ▸
Une conférence internationale sur la recherche pour la conservation de la biodiversité et les services éco-systémiques dans la Région du Bassin du Congo s’est tenue à Kinshasa, capitale de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), du 22 au 24 juillet 2018, sous le haut patronage du Ministère de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable (MEDD) de la RDC, de l’Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature (ICCN) et de l’Ambassade de la République Fédérale d’Allemagne en RDC. Read more ▸
In Costa Rica, a draft law was presented so that the implementation of the “Voluntary guidelines for the sustainability of small scale fisheries in the context of food security and the eradication of poverty” will not remain voluntary but a responsibility towards the recognition of human rights of coastal and fishing communities. Read more ▸
Podcast episode featuring a special report on the community-based conservation and agroforestry operations known as ejidos in Mexico featuring ICCA Consortium Honorary member David Barkin. Read more ▸
This podcast audio episode explores the role traditional indigenous knowledge can play to counter climate change. It features Snowchange Cooperative director and ICCA Consortium Member Tero Mustonen. Read more ▸
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 ▸
The Snowchange Cooperative unveils a transformative programme to restore biodiversity values and create new carbon sinks across boreal Finland. This will be achieved by restoring degraded wetlands and boreal forests back into health. Read more ▸
A seminar on Arctic Indigenous and Local Knowledge & Sustainability, organized by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) took place in Helsinki University, Finland: an effort to work across knowledge systems and incorporate Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) in biodiversity assessment. Read more ▸
Members and partners of the ICCA Consortium congregated in Halifax, Canada for the Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods Conference. The conference, co-organized by the Community Conservation Research Network and the IUCN Commission on Environment, Economics, and Social Policy (CEESP), gathered over 400 participants from NGOs, the academe, and communities. Read more ▸
The community of Caylin Island asked the Chilean State to create a Coastal and Marine Area of Native People around the entire island and the adjacent Chaiguao Peninsula. The proposal was approved in May 2018. Read more ▸
