The sacred groves of the Balts: lost history and modern research
Vaitkevičius, Vykintas2009
The article deals with the sacred groves (alka, elks) of the Balts in Lithuania and presents the linguistic…
Ancestral Traditions
Consequences of wooded shrine rituals on vegetation conservation in West Africa: a case study from the Bwaba cultural area (West Burkina Faso)
Fournier, Anne2011
This paper aims at filling this gap of anthropological contributions providing a better framework for conservation and ecological…
Indigenous Peoples’ Kyoto Water Declaration
2003
Statement made by representatives of indigenous peoples from around the world on the following topics: the relationship between…
El Chamanismo y las Fuerzas de la Naturaleza. “Un Análisis Sobre la Cosmovisión de los Pueblos Indígenas y Sitios Sagrados”
Aviña, Gustavo [et al.].2005
The document is divided into two blocks, each of which consists of six papers. The first deals with…
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
UN General Assembly2007
Declaration 61/295 of the Assembly of the United Nations Organization, approved on 13 September 2007. This Declaration contains…
The Conservation Value of Sacred Sites of Indigenous People of the Arctic: A Case Study in Northern Russia.
Conservation of Artic Flora and Fauna 2004
This document is a summary of a case study of the sacred sites of two indigenous peoples in…
Our Ancestral View of Territory
Villafaña, Amado (ed.)2009
Photographs from an exhibition in the Colombian Embassy in Paris in March 2010. This was the first exhibition…
Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative: Regional Programme Implementation Plan 2012-2016
ICIMOD et al.2008
The Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative, a collaborative effort of ICIMOD, UNEP, and regional partners in three countries,…
La conservación de la naturaleza, el pueblo y movimiento Maya, y la espiritualidad en Guatemala: Implicaciones para conservacionistas
Secaira, Estuardo2000
Given the multicultural, multilingual and profoundly religious reality of the country, nature conservation in Guatemala is both a…
How protection took the beauty from the land; conflicting values and meanings of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda
Infield, Mark; Duli, Eunice Mahoro; Mugisha, Arthur R.; Rubagyema, Patrick2008
Uganda’s Lake Mburo National Park protects the last remaining unenclosed rangeland known historically to the Banyankole Bahima pastoralists…