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).
The development of human civilization has reached a stage of a qualitatively new state of global economic, political…
The Twelve is a documentary of 77:07 minutes that gives voice to the traditions of wisdom through the…
A superior person takes care of the well-being of all things. He does so by accepting the responsibility…
Every being strives to preserve and develop its specific essence or nature (…) there are infinite ways in…
Who contemplates created beings without seeing God before, after or at the same time, sees only individual objects…
Man must learn to use Nature not for his comfort or entanglement to the utter forgetfulness of the…
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 (Trilogies between the cosmique, the human and the divin) is…
The paper argues that new directions in natural heritage conservation increasingly place importance on the role of cultural…
The article offers a critique of modern Western cartographies, in particular its alleged objectivity and neutrality, from the…