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Creating the Skutik Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) will conserve those sites and allow the Peskotomuhkati to co-manage them. IPCAs are a new category of permanently protected lands established in the Convention on Biological Diversity as a legal mechanism to honor aboriginal peoples’ land rights and traditional knowledge.