The association’s 17th General Assembly had more than 200 unique participants over three days, shared multimedia reports on key areas of work and took several important decisions, including on governance documents and new Council members. Read more ▸
Comprehensive analysis assesses the impacts of laws, policies and institutional frameworks on territories and areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and local communities in Malaysia. Read more ▸
The report highlights the importance of recognising Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and governance systems for effective and equitable conservation. Read more ▸
The exhibition “Territories of life on the edge: Pastoral Commons of the Mediterranean Mountains in the 21st-century” highlights bio-cultural diversity within a shared space, the resilience of communities, the threats they face, and conservation challenges in Euro-Mediterranean pastoral territories of life. Read more ▸
Our Member Krishi Avam Paristhitiki Vikas Sansthan (KRAPAVIS) has won the India Biodiversity Awards 2021 for its two-and-a-half decades of work to restore hundreds of Orans, sacred community-conserved areas in the desert state of Rajasthan. Read more ▸
As part of a diverse group promoting human rights within the post-2020 framework, the ICCA Consortium contributed to a discussion paper that sets out clear options for negotiators. Read more ▸
New Honorary member Vatosoa Rakotondrazafy received a Top 100 Young African Conservation Leaders Award for her work with the MIHARI Network (Member) and fishing communities across Madagascar. Read more ▸
A collaborative study by 16 authors from 14 countries around the world reveals how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Indigenous peoples and local communities who govern, manage, and conserve their lands and waters. Read more ▸
In commemoration of the International Women’s Day on March 8, the Indigenous Peoples Rights International (IPRI), together with Foro Internacional de Mujeres Indígenas (FIMI), International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA), and Land Rights Now organized this webinar on March 11, 2021. Read more ▸
A Snapshot of ICCA Consortium Members’ recent activities in Southeast Asia to defend, document, and sustain the Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ territories of life. Read more ▸
Communities in Rajasthan have been conserving these Orans for centuries and their lives have been intricately linked around these spaces. Read more ▸
This is the second in a series of discussions facilitated by NTFP-EP Philippines, on the wealth of wisdom of Indigenous communities on traditional and wild foods. Read more ▸
In Paraguay, the Federation for the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples Indigenous organizations – FAPI (Member, ICCA Consortium) contributes to national climate plans. Read more ▸
Exchanges are expected to help improve the understanding of the review process and promote the long-term sustainability of the support network for the ICCA registry. Read more ▸
A Snapshot of our Members’ recent activities in Southeast Asia to defend, document, and sustain the Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ territories of life. Read more ▸
Perspectives from the webinar on defending nature defenders. RELLAC-Joven organised the webinar together with the ICCA Consortium, Global Witness and activists from Colombia and Venezuela. Read more ▸
Future global biodiversity goals must embed the vital role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in protecting biological and cultural diversity, the authors of… Read more “Local Biodiversity Outlooks published ahead of UN Biodiversity Summit” ▸
The Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampís Nation demanded that the Peruvian State recognise, protect, and respect their integral territory as a natural hospital for the Indigenous peoples. Read more ▸
A new article co-authored by Chief Edwin Ogar from Nigeria, and ICCA Consortium’s Honorary Member Gretta Pecl and Council Member Tero Mustonen urge that if we are to preserve global biodiversity and restore habitats, Indigenous knowledge and western science must work in partnership. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium is launching a new initiative on territories of life and community fisheries in freshwater, coastal and marine systems. Building on our Members’ many years of existing experience, it will support community-centric activities at the local, national, regional and global levels in line with our mission and strategic approach. Read more ▸
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our month-long series of anniversary events from 13 July to 13 August, which brought our membership together for beautiful moments of reflection, commemoration, visioning and celebration. Not only were these events a powerful recollection of how far the ICCA Consortium has come, but they also turned over the fertile ground nurtured by our founders and elders and planted seeds for the next ten years of the movement for territories of life. Read more ▸
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