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 is the Charter of the Salween Peace Park in the autonomous Karen territory in Southeast Asia. It sets out the intentions of the peace park, the governance mechanisms, and the role it plays in environmental integrity, cultural heritage, and ongoing reconciliation efforts.
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 Policy Brief focuses on the contributions that IPCAs and their international counterparts, ICCAs, make [...]
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 report provides an analysis of territories and areas conserved by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (ICCAs) or "territories of life" at a local-to-global scale.
The Living Convention is an accessible compendium of Indigenous peoples’, local communities’ and peasants’ international rights.
In this policy brief, the ICCA Consortium proposes a definition of ‘inclusive conservation’ and specific recommendations for legislators, policy makers and other conservation actors willing to pursue it.
This primer from the 2014 IUCN World Parks Congress includes a review of basic concepts [...]