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Culture and wetlands: A Ramsar guidance document
… Stephen Nash, CITES Secretariat. 17 Ivory trinkets or traditional ivory amulets. 18 … diversity in combating desertification. It has embraced traditional knowledge, as part of the complex of cultural … social class-related roles 4.2.4 Practice of traditional medicine 4.3 Spirituality and belief systems 4.4 Artistic …
Wetlands, water and the law. Using law to advance wetland conservation and wise use
… communities. Wetlands thus enable communities to maintain traditional forms of animal and plant resource exploitation … occurring in wild species may be very important for human medicine. By way of example, certain small fish from the … around wetlands for thousands of years and many traditional cultures have been shaped by their proximity to …
Review of Statutory and Customary Law in the Xe Champhone Ramsar Site, LAO PDR - Implications for a rights-based approach to conservation
… near wetlands and use wetland resources according to their traditional rules and practices. A large percentage of the … small fee, children playing in the area will sing a traditional song and the turtles will come up to the surface … practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and …