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Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change
… harvesting, supplementary irrigation, traditional farming techniques to protect watersheds, changing hunting … and indigenous communities mostly depend on subsistence farming and derive a substantial part of their diet from wild … where climate change lead to lower reliability of marginal farming” (WISP 2007). On the one hand traditional drylands …
Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values
… that ranges from almost no human impact allowed to an intensive-use zone which may be considerably modified and … overgrazing of endemic and rare plants, the unsustainable intensive col- lection of medicinal plants used in folk … inhabited by local Sherpa people that practiced farming and herding. As the interna- tionally accepted …
Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report
… way for large-scale development of export-oriented prawn farming, or to be filled for use as construction land. … to degraded water quality brought about by high intensity farming, came together to form community-based societies. The … practices in the surrounding areas. Allowing resource intensive activities in the surrounding areas could put more …
The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007
… is currently given over to cultivation us- ing organic farming methods. The mon- astery’s estate has been designated … The settlers were poslushniks, inoks and monks. The most intensive impact on the islands’ nature came in the 16th … forests of the Holy Mountain on an ad hoc basis. The non-intensive char- acter of the forestry practices in place and …
Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas
… because it is less time consuming and makes for better farming. They also approve of the use of threshers because it … Respondents say that ibex is decreasing due to intensive hunting. Bear, however, is not hunted very much and …
Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… is damaged by development projects that destroy land for farming and growing food, people go hungry or become ill and … to include factors relating to the economy, tourism, farming and other activities. It has held that the right …
Indigenous and local communities and protected areas: Towards equity and enhanced conservation. Guidance on policy and practice for co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas
… become unsus tain able and many Karrayu fami lies take up farming in unsuit able land or at the margin of the irri … use, with no agree ments to date. Mean while, commer cial farming is expanding inside the park’s bound aries. The area … by the Park Authority (normally without compen sa tion), farming and land manage ment activ i ties gener ally remain …
Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… as industrial agriculture and forestry, mining, logging, intensive tourism, residential devel- opment, or where there … and Hitozato, the cleared and inten- sively settled farming areas. Within the latter are found numerous small … and undisturbed vegetation, isolated amongst areas of intensive agriculture and other modified land use. They …