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Lessons learnt in the establishment and management of protected areas by indigenous and local communities in South Asia. TILCEPA report

… One of the major steps it envisaged was the formulation of Special Area Management Plans (SAMP) for sites of ecological … of Tropical Forests for Non-Timber Forest Products. Annual Report for Biodiversity Conservation Network. Ashoka Trust … constant demands when the findings of the evaluation report were not made public, the villagers were forced to …
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Indigenous and traditional peoples and climate change

… 5 1.3 IPCC 2007 FOURTH ASSESSMENT REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS, ADAPTATIONS AND … 57 ANNEX II: THE EMISSION SCENARIOS OF THE IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON EMISSION SCENARIOS … environmental variability and change is not novel or “special”. In the past these communities have been exposed to …
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On dangerous ground _ Global Witness

… per capita to be a land and environmental defender. This report is dedicated to Berta Cáceres and the many brave … protect and promote their rights, as stipulated by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders in 20119 ▶ … on 24 March 201611 ▶ Support the UN Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures, spe- cifically those mandated to Human …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

The Sacred Dimension of Protected Areas: Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the Delos Initiative - Ouranoupolis 2007

… Holy Community has taken the initiative in pre- paring a Special Environmental Study that aims to raise environmental … oped countries such management tends to be in the hands of special management bodies –whether governmental services or … man- agement: sole management with partners (draft report). Thomson, D. (1983), Donald Thomson in Arnhem Land, …
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Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers

… specific conservation objectives. Sacred site. An area of special spiritual significance to peoples and communities. … Sacred natural site. Areas of land or water having special spiritual significance to peoples and communities. … World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) concluded in their 2005 report, Beyond Belief: “Sacred sites are probably the oldest …
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Introduction to Human Rights and the Environment - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… course has been developed in close cooperation with the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment, Prof. … and freedom to choose residence, the rights of children to special protection, and the right to be free from inhuman or … Brundtland Commission. The conclusions of the Brundtland Report stressed the need for an integrated approach to …
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Protected landscapes and cultural and spiritual values

… conservation and sustainable development that they deserve special protection and IUCN has recog- nised such landscapes … 1 Notably in Category V Management Guidelines (2002), a special number of PARKS on Category V Protected Areas (2003) … staff have no powers of detention or arrest, and can only report violations of protected area regulations, relying on …
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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

… is actively involved in protected areas research; runs special ised courses on plan - ning and envi ron mental … history of conser va tion by Ken MacDonald (USA). n two special issues of Parks, the journal of WCPA, on Local Commu … 2003; Oviedo, 2003a. 192 The final tech nical report of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan …
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Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security

… Guidelines were endorsed by the CFS at its Thirty-eighth (Special) Session on 11 May 2012. They were developed by the … new needs. They should publish performance standards and report regularly on results. Users should have means of … secure and sustainable rights to those resources, with special attention to the provision of equitable access for …
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Customary laws: Governing natural resource management in the northern areas

… steadfast commitment to sustainable mountain development. Special thanks are due to Mr. Bjorn Johannessen (NORAD) and … the Raja, but in some cases the lumbardars could directly report to the Rajas. The lumbardars collected revenue and … from the mountains and forests. They said that there is a special type of grape that grows in the forests naturally and …
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