The Twelve
The Twelve is a documentary of 77:07 minutes that gives voice to the traditions of wisdom through the…
Documentation centre
The Silene Documentation Center contains resources and documents about the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage linked to nature and natural heritage, from the local to the international level. Summaries are offered in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Catalan, although the documents are in the original languages, accompanied by translations, when available.
It is the reference documentation center of the Group Specialist in Cultural and Spiritual Values of the World Commission for Natural Protected Areas, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- Information and sensitization
Tools for information, awareness and reflection on the cultural and spiritual values of nature and landscape in various traditions and worldviews. Pedagogical, didactic and training resources that help integrate spiritual values in the conservation of nature, including myths, tales, and legends. - International declarations
Declarations of spiritual, scientific, political or social authorities in relation to the spiritual values of nature and the need to acknowledge them. - Legal documents
Conventions, treaties, laws, regulations of any administrative, national or international scope. - 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. - Planning documents
Plans and programs aimed at the conservation of nature, protected areas, habitats or species, that incorporate the spiritual and cultural dimensions. - Reflections on nature and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between nature and spirituality, in any of the concepts and the meanings that both may have and in all its manifestations. - Reflections on science and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between modern science and spirituality, or with the traditional sciences of nature and / or traditional ecological knowledge. - Strategical documents
Guidelines, strategies, recommendations or proposals, from congresses, symposia, seminars, workshops, etc. either international or national - Videographers
Movies, documentaries and interviews - Wisdom quotes
Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
Lao Tse
Hua Hu Ching
A superior person takes care of the well-being of all things. He does so by accepting the responsibility…
Arne Naess
Spinoza and Ecology1977
Every being strives to preserve and develop its specific essence or nature (…) there are infinite ways in…
Ahmad al-Alâwî
El fruto de las palabras inspiradas2007
Who contemplates created beings without seeing God before, after or at the same time, sees only individual objects…
Sathya Sai Baba
Nature is the Best Teacher2017
Man must learn to use Nature not for his comfort or entanglement to the utter forgetfulness of the…
The Church Forests of Ethiopia
Jeremy Seifert2019
What makes a church? A tiny and lush forest ….”A church, to be a church, must be surrounded…
Trilogies entre le cosmique, l’humain et le divin
Michel Maxime Egger2014
Trilogies entre le cosmique, l’humain et le divin (Trilogies between the cosmique, the human and the divin) is…
Changing Concepts and Values in Natural Heritage Conservation: A View through IUCN and UNESCO Policies
Josep-Maria Mallarach & Bas Verschuuren 2019
The paper argues that new directions in natural heritage conservation increasingly place importance on the role of cultural…
Counter Mapping
Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee2018
The article offers a critique of modern Western cartographies, in particular its alleged objectivity and neutrality, from the…
Biocultural Sacred Sites in Mexico
M. C. Bastida Muñoz and G. Patrick Encina2017
There have been many different approaches and contributions to our intercultural understanding of the inherent sacredness of nature….