Indigenous and Local Knowledge

Indigenous, Local and Traditional Knowledge are crucial ingredients underlying the links of Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods. The CCRN’s indigenous partners are closely engaged in highlighting the role of such knowledge in conservation activities. In addition, CCRN academic participants have been involved in several major initiatives.

This summer, CCRN members Cristiana S. Seixas and Juliana S. Farinaci participated in the Indigenous and Local Knowledge Dialogue Workshop (Sucre, Bolivia) for the IPBES Regional Assessment for the Americas (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - www.ipbes.net) as co-chair of the IPBES Regional Assessment for the Americas. The workshop aimed to discuss how to better consider indigenous and local knowledge in the Americas Assessment.

In September, CCRN Researcher Trudy Sable is presenting at the UArctic Congress 2016 being held at St. Petersburg, Russia, to discuss Local and Traditional Knowledge. Trudy is specifically focusing on creating an Innu-Centred environmental policy, a key activity of the CCRN’s engagement with the Innu Nation in Labrador, Canada.

The CCRN is compiling a series of ‘community stories’ that highlight the linkages of communities with environmental conservation and sustainable livelihoods, and demonstrate the complex ways in which communities interact with their environments. Recently, the CCRN has updated these stories to reflect current conservation and livelihood challenges and successes. In this Newsletter, we highlight a new and an updated community story, from Brazil and India.