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UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/INF/10

Identifying Specific Elements for Integrating the Traditional, Scientific, Technical and Technological Knowledge of Indigenous and Local Communities, and Social and Cultural Criteria and Other Aspects for the Application of Scientific Criteria for Identification of Ecologically or Biologically S ...

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/INF/21

Analysis of Possible Indicators to Measure Impacts of REDD+ on Biodiversity and on Indigenous and Local Communities

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/INF/30

Impacts of Climate-Related Geoengineering on Biodiversity: Views and Experiences of Indigenous and Local Communities And Stakeholders

"Biodiversity, development and culture": critical reflections on the Brazilian contemporary experiences.

Brazil has one of the highest rates of biodiversity and is considered one of the mega-diverse countries. Currently, the country is experiencing a time of economic stability and growth, where development policies are a priority of the current government. Discussions on the new Forest Code, the li ...

'Historic moment' for indigenous people at climate talks, new climate leader says

Climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa has just been elected to head the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in climate talks.

'Nature is not a commodity': Can the world learn from indigenous food systems, before they are lost?

Fabian Jimbijti sometimes walks three days to find food for his community. He treks across mountains to collect salt from a sacred spring deep in the jungle, wades into rivers to catch eels, and forages the forest floor for herbs and wild edibles.

'Protecting traditional knowledge and bio-cultural heritage

The event will present the overall findings of a global research project on "Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge: Implications of customary laws and practices". Case studies from Peru, China, India & Kenya will be presented in more detail, including work on community biocultur ...

'You protect what you love': Why biodiversity thrives on Indigenous-managed lands

Recent study finds that number of unique species is 40% greater on protected land in Canada

10th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)

16 - 27 May 2011, New York, United States of America

11th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity

The last time I was together with many of you, in Nairobi just a few months ago, we spoke about the importance of the task ahead as you set the direction for the Convention on Biological Diversity after 2020.

17th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (WIPO)

6 - 10 December 2010, Geneva, Switzerland

17th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII): "Indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and resources”

16 - 27 April 2018, New York, United States of America

18 Organizations Protecting Biodiversity in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico

The “Four Corners” states of the American Southwest — Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico — are places rich in natural and cultural biodiversity. From deserts to mountains to lakes and rivers, the region is home to more than 400 species of birds and the greatest diversity of mammal species i ...

1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity promotes strengthening links between biological and cultural diversity

29 OCTOBER 2016 – The 1st Asian Conference on Biocultural Diversity, held from 27-29 October in Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, produced a regional Declaration on Biocultural Diversity and an annex of practical actions that can be taken at different levels to strengthen the links between ...

2 Trees, Not 1: Study Confirms What Indigenous People Knew All Along

Scientists have now confirmed that a certain well-known tree in Southeast Asia is actually two species, not one. Indigenous people in Borneo, however, have known this all along.

2010 Calendar for the Latin American and Caribbean sub-regional workshops organized in collaboration with the Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network (IWBN) in the region and with the financial support of the Government of Spain

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/DM/69772 (2009-163)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Indigenous and Local Communities

Under Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Parties undertake to respect, preserve and maintain the knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, and promote their wider a ...

2012 Calendar of sub-regional workshops for indigenous and local community representatives with the financial support of the Governments of Spain and Japan

Reference: SCBD/SEL/JS/dm/79273 (2012-047)
To: CBD Focal Points and ICNP Focal Points, Indigenous and local communities, and International organizations and relevant stakeholders.

20th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII): “Peace, justice and strong institutions: the role of indigenous peoples in implementing Sustainable Development Goal 16”

19 - 30 April 2021, Hybrid, New York, United States of America

21st Session of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations

21 - 25 July 2003, Geneva, Switzerland

24th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (WIPO)

22 - 26 April 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

25% of world’s surface can be better protected with rights

Bonn - The math is simple: about 25 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are connected with land use, and the traditional territories of indigenous peoples cover a quarter of the world’s land surface.

25th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (WIPO)

15 - 24 July 2013, Geneva, Switzerland

2nd Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

12 - 24 May 2003, New York, United States of America

3rd World Congress on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Human Welfare: From Biodiversity through Science and Technology, Trade and Industry to Sustainable Use"

3 - 7 February 2003, Chiang Mai, Thailand

46th session of the IFAD Governing Council

14 - 15 February 2023, Rome, Italy

50th Annual Congress of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA)

8 - 12 September 2002, Barcelona, Spain

7 Indigenous Technologies Changing Landscapes

Indigenous ways of managing landscapes have often been framed as the antithesis to progress. But most Indigenous communities hold intimate place-based knowledge, gained across generations, which is an ideal starting point for addressing contemporary challenges such as biodiversity loss, land deg ...

9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9)

6 - 13 November 2009, Merida, Mexico

: Fifth meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions, Montreal, Canada, 15 to 19 October 2007

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/58451 (2007-063)
To: UN Organizations and Specialized Agencies, IGOs, NGOs and private sector

I am pleased to inform you that, pursuant to Decision VIII/5 of the Conference of the Parties, the Fifth Meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions will be held in Montreal, Canada, from 15 to 19 October 2007. The provisional agenda is attached for your ...

A Joint Programme of Work on biological and Cultural Diversity

The International Conference on Biological and Cultural Diversity – for development, held in Montreal 8-10 June 2010, with over 230 participants from Parties, International organizations, IPOs, NGOs and civil society, has recommended a joint programme of work lead by UNESCO and the SCBD to explo ...

A New Bill Could Help Protect the Sacred Seeds of Indigenous People

Clayton Brascoupé has farmed in the red-brown foothills of New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains for more than 45 years. A Mohawk-Anishnaabe originally from a New York reservation, Brascoupé married into the Pueblo of Tesuque tribe and has since planted at least 60 varieties of corns, beans, s ...

A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)

The Batwa Indigenous peoples lived in the Kahuzi-Biega forests of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo for centuries before Belgian colonial rule imposed formal change in 1937 with the establishment of the Zoological and Forest Reserve of Mount Kahuzi.

A huge land grab is threatening India’s tribal people. They need global help

About 8 million indigenous people in India are in danger of being evicted from forests that their ancestors have lived in for millennia. This grave injustice follows a shocking supreme court ruling that rides roughshod over the rights of India’s indigenous people, known as Adivasi, or tribals.

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Indigenous people make up a third of the total number of environmental defenders killed across the globe, despite being a total of 4% of the world’s population, according to a report by Global Witness. The most critical situation is in Colombia, where 117 Indigenous people have been murdered bet ...

A native plant is exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and Western conventions

A fight is brewing over ownership of gumby gumby, exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and the Western intellectual property (IP) system. It is part of a broader debate in Australia and globally about how to value and protect traditional knowledge and ensure Indigenous people benefit ...

A pervasive threat to biodiversity and human security

Indigenous knowledge is important for ecological, economic and social sustainability. However, the instruments of ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ (IPRs) have overridden the authority of local communities to use traditional and indigenous knowledge in biosphere. In spite of the fact that indigenou ...

A word on the rights of the Amazon’s Quilombola peoples

Selma Dealdina is executive secretary of the National Coordination of Quilombola Rural Black Communities (CONAQ), an organization representing the estimated 5,000 Quilombolas originally settled in Brazil in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Aaranyak’s bid to preserve indigenous seed diversity to enrich biodiversity

Indigenous varieties of seeds which have been fast disappearing from the state’s croplands due to invasion of hybrid verities, are key components of the rich bio-diversity in the ethnic-mosaic called Assam.

Aboriginal group urges mining 'reset' after ancient site destroyed

Aboriginal landowners have called for a "reset" in Australia's lucrative mining sector after an inquiry pilloried Rio Tinto for blowing up a 46,000-year-old heritage site to expand an iron ore mine.

Access and Benefit-sharing: Composition of the Expert Group on traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources, Hyderabad, India, 16-19 June 2009

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/VN/GD/67044 (2009-041)
To: CBD National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, international organizations, indigenous and local communities and stakeholders

In accordance with the above, by Notification 2009-019 of 24 February 2009, the Executive Secretary invited Parties, indigenous and local communities, relevant international organizations and other stakeholders to nominate experts and observers for the meeting of the expert group on traditional ...

Across the globe, the diversity of language overlaps with that of the natural world

When scientists started to work in the dense pine forests of British Columbia to analyse the DNA of grizzly bears, they discovered three distinct, genetically different groups. The bears were spread across an area of 23,500 square kilometres – land that falls within the territories of the Nuxalk ...

Ad Hoc Open-ended Intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity

23 - 27 January 2006, Granada, Spain

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Traditional Knowledge and Clearing-House Mechanism

24 - 26 February 2003, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on the New Programme of Work and Institutional Arrangements on Article 8(j) and Other Provisions of the Convention Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

11 - 13 July 2023, Manaus, Brazil

Ad hoc Expert Group Meeting of Local-community Representatives

14 - 16 July 2011, Montreal, Canada

Advisory Committee for the Programme of Work on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions

11 - 14 July 2005, Montreal, Canada

Advisory Committee for the Programme of Work on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions

30 April - 3 May 2007, Montreal, Canada

Advisory Group for Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Concludes Four Day Meeting in Montreal

The second meeting of the Advisory Group for Article 8(j) was held in Montreal from 30 April to 3 May 2007. The Group included 20 participants from indigenous and local communities from all over the world. Representatives of Brazil and Germany, in their capacity as Presidents of the eight and ...

Advisory Group for Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Concludes Four Day Meeting in Montreal.

Africa Regional Training Workshop related to national arrangements on traditional knowledge for achieving Aichi Biodiversity Target 18 and contributing to Aichi Biodiversity Target 16 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, 8 - 12 October 2018 - Marrakech, Morocco

Reference: SCBD/SPS/AS/JS/VF/87279 (2018-040)
To: CBD, ABS, TK Focal Points, and indigenous peoples and local community organizations