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A Call for Legal Recognition of Sacred Natural Sites in Africa
“A Call for Legal Recognition of Sacred Natural Sites and Territories, and their Customary Governance Systems” was released by Gaia Foundation and African Biodiversity Network. The report provides the...
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Conservation experience: Invite the gods and goddesses for protection, Juju...
Near the Gureombi village on the South-Korean island of Jeju, Shamans pray to the ocean for abundance and prosperity. They perform the Chogamje ceremony where they invite the 18.000 Gods and Goddesses...
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Conservation experience: Mapping Winti practices and sacred groves for...
During the era of the slave trade Winti religion travelled with the African people to Suriname where they established a new connection to the land and their ancestors. Today, their descendants still...
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The loss of cultural knowledge and the threat that brings to the sacred lands...
Coron Island is an archipelago full of coral reefs, brackish lagoons, mangroves, limestone forests and flourishing biodiversity. There are ten lakes in the area considered sacred by the Calamian...
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Indigenous custodians’ voices amplified in forthcoming publication!
This is a call for contributions to a forthcoming book entitled: “Indigenous Perspectives on Living with Sacred Heritage (2016)”. This book will look to the notion of a sacred site as defined by its...
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Community empowerment by mobilizing traditional governance to protect sacred...
Sacred groves are important for biodiversity conservation but this is not the only important function of the Groves in Ghana’s Upper West region. The groves provide medicinal plants and also house the...
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An International photography contest invites you to photograph sacred natural...
An international photography contest, dedicated to historical sacred natural sites, is commencing. The goal of the contest is to commemorate the cultural and natural heritages of sacred natural sites,...
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Sacred Natural Sites at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii 1-4...
Since sacred natural sites hi the conservation agenda in the late 90-‘s they have been receiving increasing attention from conservationists. In 2008 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona...
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Declaring Sacred Natural Sites as juristic persons
[Header image: Permission from Geoff Cloake] The recognition that “other-than-human” entities have legal personality can be seen as an emerging eco-spiritual paradigm around the world. The Romans...
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Paths to Peace, Sharing the Sacred: Finding Meaning for a Common Future
This is the featured Article of the Sacred Sites Research Newsletter Newsletter March 2019 Issue. by Jonathan Liljeblad The Rise of Indigenous Rights Commencing in the latter part of the 20th century...
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