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Article Asia Community-led conservation Country Partners Philippines PIKP Region Sustainable livelihoods Themes Traditional and local knowledge Type

20.12.23

Indigenous Leaders Forum held in Besao, Mountain Province

There were lively discussions addressing the challenges eroding Besao culture during the Leaders Forum held in Besao, Mountain Province. A majority of elders from all the four ancestral communities gave their insights into the dwindling community practices such as the use of the dap-ay as…

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Local artists perform “moomi olee kerkeey kooreenyoo”, a song about the splendor

Africa Article CIPDP Community-led conservation Country Kenya Partners Region Sustainable livelihoods Themes Traditional and local knowledge Uncategorised

04.12.23

Conservation through application of traditional practices and indigenous knowledge

Indigenous communities are perhaps the only groups of people in Africa who still maintain their traditional values and culture. Often, their way of life is dictated by their environment and available natural resources, and to live in harmony with nature, they have to develop ways…

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Demonstration on quadrat method of data collection

Africa Article Biodiversity monitoring CIPDP Community-led conservation Country Kenya Partners Region Sustainable livelihoods Themes Type Uncategorised

04.12.23

Community Based Biodiversity monitoring

ICCS training on biodiversity monitoring methods The Interdisciplinary Centre For Conservation Science (ICCS) is a research group based in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford. Through research and collaboration across the world, the ICCS and its fellows work at the interface of social and…

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Fred Kibelio of Chepkitale Indigenous Peoples Development Project(CIPDP) presents an example of a map created using Mapeo during a Transformative Pathways side event at WG8(j) in Geneva, November 2023 Credit Gordon John Thomas

Article CHIRAPAQ CIPDP FPP IIN Uncategorised UNEP-WCMC

27.11.23

Transformative Pathways activities showcased at international biodiversity conference

At the Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions in Geneva, members of the Transformative Pathways project held a side event to highlight the work Indigenous Peoples are doing to monitor their cultural and biological diversity. On the 14th of November 2023, five representatives…

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Wampis woman planting taricaya eggs, in the Puerto Juan Indigenous Community.

Article Biodiversity monitoring Community-led conservation GTANW Peru Sustainable livelihoods The Americas Uncategorised

01.09.23

Recovering aquatic turtles in the Kankaim Basin, Morona

The taricaya and the charapa are the two most important species of aquatic turtles due to the contribution of their eggs and meat in the diet of the local population, as well as a source of economic income from the commercialisation of these natural products.…

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Article CHIRAPAQ Community-led conservation Country Partners Peru Sustainable livelihoods The Americas Traditional and local knowledge

01.09.23

Processes promoted in the family

In June 2022, we began the implementation of the Transformative Pathways project, which works to support Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to lead and scale up conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. These actions will also serve to conserve and protect the natural environments where…

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IIFB Indigenous caucus at COP15 in Montreal, Canada.

AIPP Article Community-led conservation FPP GTANW IMPECT International processes Land and resource rights Traditional and local knowledge UNEP-WCMC

30.08.23

Indigenous Peoples and the Kunming-Montreal Biodiversity Agreement

During UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15 meeting in Montreal, December 2022, representatives from Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), UNEP-WCMC, Indigenous Information Network (IIN), The Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation (GTANW), Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and IMPECT all participated. Global and local project partners supported…

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Fiorella (37) and her daughter Yuliana (9) select the best cedar seeds that they store to reforest the edge of their plots.

Article CHIRAPAQ Community-led conservation Peru Sustainable livelihoods The Americas Traditional and local knowledge

21.08.23

“Inside the forest instead of planting, trees are being cut down”.

Fiorella Lopez Manchari is a 37-year-old Yanesha woman who lives in Unión de la Selva, Peru. Fiorella grew up with her grandmother until the age of seven when she had to migrate to Lima to work. "All my life I have always liked to generate…

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Africa Article CIPDP Community-led conservation Kenya Sustainable livelihoods Traditional and local knowledge

13.06.23

Conservation of Mt. Elgon forest

Mt. Elgon forest has continued to suffer degradation despite efforts to protect its resources by different actors. Charcoal burning, uncontrolled harvesting of bamboos and other forest products are key drivers of deforestation. Government’s approach to conservation using the Plantation Establishment and Livelihood Improvement scheme (PELIS)…

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Article Asia Philippines PIKP Traditional and local knowledge Uncategorised

03.06.23

Youth for Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity

Many children and young indigenous peoples whose families have moved to the cities and grew up in the cities oftentimes feel a disconnect to their communities of origin. This has been expressed by young people in former youth activities where there is a great interest…

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