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Jul 09 2015

A “Life Plan” for the Park: Culturally Appropriate Management in Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park

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Project Contributor: Darron Collins Mapping traditional territories in the Xingu Indigenous Park. Credit: Amazon Conservation Team The concept of “National Park” in Brazil incorporates the dual objectives of protecting…

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Protection of an Indigenous Reserve: The Ka’apor People of Amazonian Brazil

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Project Contributor: William Balée Ka'apor, Brazil. Photo: Darcy Ribeiro/Wikimedia The Ka’apor emerged as a people with a distinctive identity about three hundred years ago, probably between the Tocantins and Xingu…

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Training Indigenous Agro-Forestry Agents in Acre, Brazil: Indigenous and Modern Technologies for Sustainability

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Project Contributors: Giulia Pedone, Renato Gavazzi The Amazon region has largely been perceived as a boundless territory with unlimited resources to exploit. Due to its low population density, it has…

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Re-establishing the Inextricable Link: Mbyá Culture and Biological Diversity in the Atlantic Rainforest in Southeast Brazil

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Project Contributors: Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek The Mbyá are one of the last surviving indigenous peoples of the Atlantic Rainforest in the Southeast of Brazil, known…

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Bridging the (Digital) Gap: Aboriginal and Scientific Knowledge of Biodiversity in Northern Australia

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Project Contributors: Helen Verran, David Turnbull Several groups of Australian Aboriginal Peoples are seeking ways to use digital technology (computers, digital cameras, sound recordings), in particular contexts, to keep their…

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Integrating Local and Scientific Knowledge: The Wik, Wik-Way & Kugu Ethnobiology Project in Queensland, Australia

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Project Contributor: Sarah Edwards Dramatic changes to Aboriginal societies in Australia, which started with European colonization over 200 years ago and led to severe cultural erosion and the extinction of…

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Putting Australian Aboriginal Cultural Values on the Map: The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area as a Biocultural Landscape

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Project Contributor: Bruce White The project “Mapping Aboriginal Cultural Values in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area” was originally supported by the Aboriginal Rainforest Council Inc. (ARC), and is now…

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Kinami Mountain on Lihir Island, PNG. Credit: Simon Foale

Mining and Cultural Loss: Assessing and Mitigating Impacts in Papua New Guinea

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Project Contributors: Martha Macintyre, Simon Foale Kinami Mountain on Lihir Island, PNG. Credit: Simon Foale Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a site for gold mining by a…

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Countering Fish Stock Depletion through Traditional Knowledge, Tenure, and Use of Marine Resources in Papua New Guinea

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Project Contributors: Martha Macintyre, Simon Foale Fish stocks around Lihir Island in PNG are threatened by over-harvesting, as determined by research conducted by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.…

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Integrating Customary Tenure Systems in Marine Protected Areas: A Solomon Islands Example

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Project Contributor: Shankar Aswani Men involved in participatory mapping exercise in Roviana, Solomon Islands Credit: Shankar Aswani Protected areas presently cover less than 0.5% of the land and seascapes of…

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We are deeply committed to participating in righting the wrongs of colonialism and of the oppression and forced assimilation of Indigenous Peoples worldwide, by engaging in not only reconciliation but also reconcili-action.

A “Life Plan” for the Park: Culturally Appropriate Management in Brazil’s Xingu Indigenous Park

Protection of an Indigenous Reserve: The Ka’apor People of Amazonian Brazil

Training Indigenous Agro-Forestry Agents in Acre, Brazil: Indigenous and Modern Technologies for Sustainability

Re-establishing the Inextricable Link: Mbyá Culture and Biological Diversity in the Atlantic Rainforest in Southeast Brazil

Bridging the (Digital) Gap: Aboriginal and Scientific Knowledge of Biodiversity in Northern Australia

Integrating Local and Scientific Knowledge: The Wik, Wik-Way & Kugu Ethnobiology Project in Queensland, Australia

Putting Australian Aboriginal Cultural Values on the Map: The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area as a Biocultural Landscape

Mining and Cultural Loss: Assessing and Mitigating Impacts in Papua New Guinea

Countering Fish Stock Depletion through Traditional Knowledge, Tenure, and Use of Marine Resources in Papua New Guinea

Integrating Customary Tenure Systems in Marine Protected Areas: A Solomon Islands Example

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