Self-Strengthening ICCAs – Guidance on a process and resources for custodian indigenous peoples and local communities – draft for use by GSI partners, The… Read more “Self-Strengthening ICCAs – Guidance on a process and resources for custodian indigenous peoples and local communities” ▸
Traditional and modern institutions of governance in community based natural resources management, P W Mamimine and S Mandivengerei, June 2001, Programme for Land and… Read more “Traditional and modern institutions of governance of natural resources in Southern Africa” ▸
A review of basic concepts and terms on governance of protected and conserved areas: Primer on Governance for Protected and Conserved Areas
Governance of Protected Areas: From understanding to action: IUCN Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines No.20 This publication is an important tool to help enhance… Read more “IUCN Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines No.20” ▸
The Myth of Wilderness in the Brazilian Rainforest, Carlos Diegues, 2010
“Governance for the Conservation of Nature”, Chapter 7 in: Protected Area Governance and Management, edited by Graeme L. Worboys, Michael Lockwood, Ashish Kothari, Sue Feary… Read more “Governance for the Conservation of Nature” ▸
Agenda socioambiental Desde el pensamiento de los Pueblos Mayas Garifumas y Xinkas de Guatemala, Guatemala 15 de Octubre, 2010 (in Spanish)
Together with GIZ (the German International Development Agency), UNDP GEF SGP, the IUCN Global Protected Area Programme and the Secretariat of the Convention on… Read more “The Heart of a Stream – three movies on governance for the conservation of nature” ▸
ICCA Legal Review series: An Analysis of International Law, National Legislation, Judgements, and Institutions as they Interrelate with Territories and Areas Conserved by Indigenous… Read more “ICCA Legal Review series” ▸
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)” ▸
‘Community Conserved Areas in South Asia’ webinar series highlights successful efforts by traditional fishing communities to protect wetland biodiversity and sustain livelihoods. Read more ▸
Plans for Indigenous Peoples’ Confederate Autonomous Government in Taiwan make progress. Leaders recently have set-up institutional process for self-determination. Read more ▸
The Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampís Nation demanded that the Peruvian State recognize, protect, and respect their integral territory as a natural hospital for the Indigenous peoples. Read more ▸
Speakers urged the government of the Philippines to make the ICCA Bill into law. They highlighted the necessity of scaling up technical assistance and financial mechanisms to support Indigenous peoples’ contribution to biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation. Read more ▸
In Finland, the Selkie village community’s success to restore territories of life in the Jukajoki river basin raises hope for national-scale landscape restoration. Mining and other extractive activities degraded boreal peatlands in the Nordic country. But the villagers and fishers of Selkie successfully used local ecological knowledge and legal actions to stop destructive mining. Read more ▸
In northwestern Mexico, the Comcaac Indigenous people have cared for their territory for millennia. Leonel Hoeffer, Honorary member and member of the ICCA Consortium’s Youth Group, tells how the Comcaac youth are involved in and leading activities for the conservation of their territory and culture. Read more ▸
CICADA, ICCA Consortium Member, launched the first four policy briefs of its series on biocultural diversity in settler state contexts. They identify challenges, explore opportunities, and provide recommendations on: biocultural indicators and the nexus of nature, culture, and well-being; livelihoods, food sovereignty, health, and well-being; information and communications technologies; and territorial defense in extractive contexts. Read more ▸
To celebrate the “Month of the Territories of Life” and the commemoration of 10 years of the ICCA Consortium, Mupan, Rellac-Jovem and the ICCA Consortium organized a series of webinars on issues related to ICCAs–territories of life in Brazil. Read more ▸
On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Natural Justice (ICCA Consortium Member) launched the third edition of the Living Convention. The Living Convention is a response to this important and often-asked question: “What are the rights of Indigenous peoples, local communities, peasants and their organisations at the international level?” It provides a foundation to ensure people are in a stronger position to understand the law, shape the law and use the law. Read more ▸
This special issue is a great opportunity to present case studies, research findings and various syntheses about inclusivity, with a special focus on the conservation practices and related innovations of local communities and Indigenous peoples. Marc Foggin, guest editor of this issue and Director of ICCA Consortium Member Plateau Perspectives, explains the submission modalities. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium joins more than 150 other organisations in signing a solidarity statement condemning the Kenyan government’s forced eviction of Ogiek and Sengwer families from their homes and ancestral lands in the name of conservation. Read more ▸
