“Umu-Kaja Yepa” – Discusiones sociales sobre las áreas comunitarias para la conservación
Asatrizy & Juan-Carlos Riascos Peña2008
The indigenous territory of the Yapú Zone “Umu – Kaya Yepa” occupies ca. 150,000 hectares of rain forest…
Management documents
Actions that reinforce the preservation and enjoyment of the values of the intangible heritage of nature, in an integrated way with conservation, in all fields, including the evaluation of their effectiveness. Traditional systems of governance of territories and resources.
Tree Growing for Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration: A Guide for Faith-Based Actors
Laura D'Arcy, Anita Diederichsen, Chantal Elkin, Thomas Barasa2022
These guidelines offer a simple step-by-step approach to assist faith-based actors in implementing and developing tree growing initiatives….
Nature’s contributions to people from Church Forests in a fragmented tropical landscape in Southern Ethiopia
This study examines the diversity and extent of nature contribution to people by church forests in a fragmented…
Ethiopian Church Forests. Opportunities and Challenges for Restoration
Alemayehu Wassie Eshete2007
Church forests are the last refuges of many species in Ethiopia and may act as stepping stones for…
Territories of Life as Key to Global Environmental Sustainability
Territories and areas that Indigenous peoples and local communities govern, manage, and conserve (hereafter territories of life) are…
Ecomimicry in Indigenous resource management: optimizing ecosystem services to achieve resource abundance, with examples from Hawaiʻ
Winter, K. B. et al.2020
Here, we expand on the term “ecomimicry” to be an umbrella concept for an approach to adaptive ecosystem-based…
Viatge a l’origen
David Segarra2015
The article offers a vibrant account of the models of resilient self-management in the Valencian Country, Spain, based…
Ethnoichthyology and Ethnotaxonomy of the Kichwa Indigenous People of Arawanu (Arajuno), in the Ecuadorian Amazon
The Amazon Basin is home to a large number of indigenous nationalities who have co-evolved with aquatic habitats…
Among Saints, Enchanted and Orixás: a journey through the diversity of sacred natural sites in Brazil
Erika Fernades-Pinto & Marta de Azevedo Irving2018
Recognition on the multiple values of nature has been increasing in the recent decades in global forums on…
Spiritual Governance as an Indigenous Behavioural Practice: Implications for protected and conserved areas
John Studley & Peter Horsley2019
Many of the world’s sacred natural sites are located in territories inhabited by indigenous animistic people and are…