Biocultural Diversity
Protect and Revive
Biodiversity, culture and language are deeply intertwined. An understanding of and respect for these relationships is embedded deeply within the beliefs of most Indigenous Peoples and local communities around the world and reflected in the way they interact with and as part of nature.
Monocultural approaches – from the way humans grow their food to the way we educate our children to the languages we speak – have profoundly altered the planet’s ecological integrity.
Our programme aims to support Indigenous Peoples and local communities to:
Revive sacred natural sites and rituals.
This information is for their own records, as well as to articulate to others the importance of their territories and to use this as part of the legal process to secure official land titles.
Protect Indigenous languages and the ancestral knowledge held within them.
When people have secure tenure rights over their land it helps to address many issues such as social and gender inequalities, food insecurity, and environmental degradation. It empowers people to think and act with the long-term in mind and it helps them to defend their land from external threats.
