International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

The World Heritage Convention and Indigenous Peoples

whit — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:36:41 +0100

Indigenous peoples’ experiences of the inscription of their lands and resources as World Heritage Sites, under the 1972 World Heritage Convention, have been widely varied. In some cases the Convention has been a tool for indigenous peoples to use in protecting their lands – the case of the Mirarr people in Kakadu, Australia, using the World Heritage Convention to halt Uranium mining in their lands stands out.

Indigenous peoples in Suriname still wait for land rights

whit — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:42:11 +0100

Legal rights and recognition for the diverse indigenous peoples of Suriname have lagged behind those in other South American countries. Despite pressure from the UN and binding judgments by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Suriname has yet to recognize indigenous and tribal land rights, a situation that has disconnected local communities from decisions regarding the land they have inhabited for centuries and in some cases millennia.

Sharing power – the end of ‘fortress’ conservation?

Kailash — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:07:52 +0000

Will conservation organisations finally take practical action to implement agreed commitments that recognise the rights of indigenous peoples in protected areas?

Over the last 10 years governments and conservation organisations have made significant commitments to uphold the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in protected area policies and activities. However, on the ground, the impoverishment of indigenous peoples and the displacement from their ancestral homelands due to protected areas are still the hidden costs of conservation.

42 Tribal Wildlife Grants Awarded in 16 States

Kailash — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:48:57 +0000

WASHINGTON, DC – The Hopi Tribe will conduct an assessment of golden eagles in Arizona, the Poarch Band of Creek Indians will restore longleaf pine habitat in Alabama, the St.

Will tribes gain from climate change talks?

Kailash — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:02:02 +0100

MANILA – Indigenous peoples (IPs) have gained ground in their fight to have their rights recognized in a new mechanism against climate change, as backed strongly by the Philippine delegation in the ongoing climate change negotiations.

IUCN Resolution on Indigenous Peoples

whit — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:42:13 +0100

Resolution: Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention

Adopted on 15 September 2012

IUCN World Conservation Congress, Jeju, Korea, 6-15 September 2012

RECALLING the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on 13 September 2007 and its endorsement by IUCN at the 4th World Conservation Congress through Resolution 4.052 Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Barcelona, 2008);

Yasuni: Ecuador abandons plan to stave off Amazon drilling

whit — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:55:10 +0100

President says scheme to raise money from rich countries to compensate for oil moratorium has pulled in only $13m

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has abandoned a unique and ambitious plan to persuade rich countries to pay his country not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest preserve.

Environmentalists had hailed the initiative when Correa first proposed it in 2007, saying he was setting a precedent in the fight against global warming by reducing the high cost to poor countries of preserving the environment.

“The world has failed us,” Correa said in a nationally televis