This toolkit provides guidance for Indigenous communities on documenting, developing, and using a biocultural community protocol. This is to ensure that external actors respect their customary laws, values, and decision-making processes, particularly those concerning stewardship of their territories and areas.
This paper from the Yellowhead Institute provides an overview of the current status of land dispossession in Canada, focusing on alienation through resource extraction.
This is part of a series of reports from an international-to-local analysis of laws relevant to territories and areas conserved by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (ICCAs).
These reports analyze the effects of laws, policies, and implementing agencies on territories and areas conserved by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (ICCAs) and explore the diversity of ways in which Indigenous peoples and local communities are using the law to sustain the resilience of their ICCAs.
This report explores the interface between Indigenous peoples' and local communities' conserved territories and areas, and the governance and management of overlapping protected areas.
This primer from the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress includes a review of basic concepts [...]
This article highlights the Chiefs of Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek, Wapekeka First Nation, and Kitchenuhmaykoosib lnninuwug signing a Mutual Cooperation Protocol, which commits them to protecting the lands and waters within their territories through the creation of IPCAs.
This article examines the establishment of Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks. It also examines options for achieving appropriate legal recognition when it is not forthcoming.
Declaration by Cumberland House Cree Nation that the Kitaskīnaw is formally protected under their laws as a sacred place which they will continue to steward forever.
This article discusses the battle to defend Meares Island and its declaration as a Tribal Park in 1984.