2nd Congress in the Carpathian Network of Protected Areas: spiritual values
Tatranská Javořina, Slovakia 23-26 April, 2013
The Second Congress of the Carpathian Network of Protected Areas will be held on 23–26 April in Tatrasnká…
Protected Areas
Creating the Peace Park in the Balkans
Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro 2001–2011
After years of violent conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, in 2001 a project was launched…
IUCN Specialist Group on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas: Work plan 2013-2017
Gland, Switzerland2013-2017
The Steering Committee of the IUCN WCPA SG CSVPA has prepared a four year work plan aiming to…
New book on the spiritual values of protected natural areas in Europe
Island of Vilm, GermanyDecember 2012
In December, the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation published a paper and digital volume Spiritual Values of…
New IUCN Resolutions to encourage cooperation with religious organisations and to support custodians and customary laws regarding sacred natural sites
Jeju, South KoreaSeptember 2012
The General Assembly of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), held in the island of…
Recommendation to support custodian protocols and customary laws of sacred sites in the face of global threats and challenges
IUCN2012
This Recommendation, adopted by the IUCN General Assembley of Jeju (South Korea), calls on all IUCN State Members…
Preparing guidance to integrate cultural and spiritual values into the protected areas of Spain
Mallarach, Josep-Maria, Comas, Eulàlia and de Armas, Alberto2010
The Silene Association proposed to promote the elaboration of a guide to integrate the cultural and spiritual values…
The Canigó, French Grand Site and the sacred mountain of the Catalans
Canigó, Catalan Pyrenees, FranceJuly 2012
The French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy has recently declared the Canigó massif as a grand…
Proceedings of the 3d workshop of the Delos Initiative: Europe’s Sacred Natural Sites Need Recognition
Vantaa, FinlandApril 2012
Sacred natural sites hold spiritual and intangible values that are often hidden to the modern world. The book…
Workshop on Spiritual Values of Protected Areas in Europe
Island of Vilm, Germany 2-6 November 2011
The German Agency for Nature Conservation organized an international workshop on the spiritual values of protected areas of…