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Sacred natural sites: Guidelines for protected area managers
… from The Christensen Fund, LTS International, The Sacred Land Film Project, UNESCO and WWF International. Published … the Dhimurru Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia, are asked to respect … a Sacred Gift for a Living Planet . . . . . . 33 3. Sacred land zoning in Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …
World Heritage, Wilderness and Large Landscapes and Seascapes
… Chapter 5: Implementing a wilderness and large land and seascapes approach under the Convention … (SCBD 2014), were sobering: although more of the planet’s land and sea is under conservation management than ever … strategy must also include more large and intact areas of land and sea, including wilderness, before they vanish, and …
Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… to respond to the problem of desertification and land degradation. A tenet of the UNCCD is that … by others. One example is the Council of Europe’s European Land- scape Convention (2000), which reflects a principle … the season of inundation, the Nile flooded kmt, ‘the black land’, which included most of the flat plains along its …
Managing Natural World Heritage
… an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands … of the important links and interaction between land and culture. It is not surprising that such management …
Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual
… an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or … often led to communities being forcibly relocated from land that had in some cases been their traditional homelands … of the important links and interaction between land and culture. It is not surprising that such management …
Introduction to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
… for example by oil rigs, but could also take the form of land reclamation, artificial islands or installations for … related to resources or not and whether they take place on land or at sea, have an impact on the marine environment and … due to increased human activity both at sea and on land. The impact of untreated human waste alone is already a …
Cultural Heritage Information Pack: 6 Cultural heritage -- Wetlands -- a cultural landscape
… tained the terraces over 2,000 years, creating a cultural land- scape of such beauty that the area was accepted as a … In many parts of the world there are examples of wet- land landscapes that fishermen and seafood gather- ers have … regulations by a number of countries to conserve cultural land- scapes, the adoption of the European Landscape …
Linking Landscapes - Exploring the relationships between World Heritage cultural landscapes and IUCN protected areas
… often reflect specific techniques of sustainable land use, considering the characteristics and limits of the … can contribute to modern techniques of sustainable land use and can maintain or enhance natural values in the … landscape. The continued existence of traditional forms of land use supports biological diversity in many regions of the …