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Protecting biocultural diversity at Kazdaği National Park, Balikesir, Turkey: the role of Sacred Natural Sites [PDF]

Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2020
Official nature conservation efforts have lasted a little more than a century in the world. However, the history of protection of Sacred Natural Sites (SNSs) by local cultural groups goes back thousands of years because these places have sacred value and
Yılmaz Arı
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Where to leave fossil fuels underground? A multi-criteria analysis to identify unburnable carbon areas in the Ecuadorian Amazon region

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Despite the ongoing impacts of climate change around the world, fossil fuels continue to drive the global economy. The socio-environmental impacts of oil development at the local level are widely recognized, especially in high biocultural diversity areas,
Daniele Codato, Salvatore E Pappalardo, Francesco Facchinelli, Maria R Murmis, Carlos Larrea, Massimo De Marchi   +5 more
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Nature’s rights as Indigenous rights? Mis/recognition through personhood for Te Urewera

Espace populations sociétés, 2020
In Aotearoa New Zealand, person rights for nature have been added to the suite of resolution mechanisms for Treaty of Waitangi claims. New laws for two national parks personify landscapes and Maori relations with them to encourage greater appreciation ...
Brad Coombes
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Drones, communities and nature: pitfalls and possibilities for conservation and territorial rights

Global Social Challenges Journal, 2023
Since the early 2010s, small drones have become key tools for environmental research around the globe. While critical voices have highlighted the threat of ‘green securitisation’ and surveillance in contexts where drones are deployed for nature ...
Sauls Laura Aileen, Paneque-Gálvez Jaime, Amador-Jiménez Mónica, Vargas-Ramírez Nicolás, Laumonier Yves   +4 more
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Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations

Conservation Letters, 2022
Increasingly the importance of Indigenous participation is acknowledged as central to effective biodiversity conservation. Traditional management emphasizes the importance of a holistic, integrated approach to safeguard species and ecological communities
Teagan Goolmeer, Anja Skroblin, Chrissy Grant, Stephen vanLeeuwen, Ricky Archer, Cissy Gore‐Birch, Brendan A. Wintle   +6 more
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Shouldering the burden: social-ecological scale mismatches in wetland ecosystem management in Aotearoa New Zealand

Ecosystems and People, 2023
Social-ecological mismatches in scale limit the recovery of ecosystems from environmental degradation, severely impacting the diverse groups who rely on them.
C. Y. Bataille, S. K. Malinen, P. O’B. Lyver   +2 more
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Indigenous protected and conserved areas (IPCAs): Canada's new path forward for biological and cultural conservation and Indigenous well-being

FACETS, 2023
Wilderness and national parks play a fundamental role in defining Canadian identity, yet Indigenous Peoples have historically been excluded from conservation decisions, resulting in systematic dispossession and oppression. In this article, we collaborate
Nicolas Mansuy, Diana Staley, Sharlene Alook, Brenda Parlee, Alexandra Thomson, Danika Billie Littlechild, Matthew Munson, Fred Didzena   +7 more
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Decolonial conservation: establishing Indigenous Protected Areas for future generations in the face of extractive capitalism

Journal of Political Ecology, 2021
Extractive capitalism has long been the driving force of settler colonialism in Canada, and continues to threaten the sovereignty, lands and waters of Indigenous nations across the country.
Faisal Moola, J.B. Fobister, Jonaki Bhattacharyya, Justine Townsend, Megan Youdelis   +4 more
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Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi

Ecology and Society, 2022
Groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) are increasingly recognized as important conservation targets with linked ecological and social value. However, the social uses and values of GDEs have received relatively little research attention in the peer ...
Veronica L. Gibson, Leah L. Bremer, Kimberly M. Burnett, Nicole Keaka. Lui, Celia M. Smith   +4 more
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El rio y sus guardianes. Derechos bioculturales en acción sobre el río Atrato

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
In 2016, the Colombian Constitutional Court granted rights to the Atrato River. Based on an ethnographic study conducted with the people involved in this decision, this article focuses on the mobilization of the notion of biocultural rights, original in ...
Sandrine Revet
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