Ancestral Traditions

Asian Philosophy of Protected Areas

This is the first attempt to provide an overview of Asian approaches for Protected Areas. The work analyses…

Sacred forests hold the last remaining primary forest in many parts of Sierra Leone, but they have been…

The article deals with the sacred groves (alka, elks) of the Balts in Lithuania and presents the linguistic…

This paper aims at filling this gap of anthropological contributions providing a better framework for conservation and ecological…

Statement made by representatives of indigenous peoples from around the world on the following topics: the relationship between…

The document is divided into two blocks, each of which consists of six papers. The first deals with…

Declaration 61/295 of the Assembly of the United Nations Organization, approved on 13 September 2007. This Declaration contains…

This document is a summary of a case study of the sacred sites of two indigenous peoples in…

Photographs from an exhibition in the Colombian Embassy in Paris in March 2010. This was the first exhibition…

The Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation Initiative, a collaborative effort of ICIMOD, UNEP, and regional partners in three countries,…