The Conference recognized that the involvement of local communities has been limited and urged Parties and partners to support indigenous and local communities and ensure their participation in national and international dialogues regarding biodiversity use, conservation and management.
In the 20th century, it spread around the world, evolving, adapting and fusing with diverse indigenous and local musical traditions.
Another side event on recognizing indigenous and local knowledge and building synergies with science (Item 5 of the agenda) will also be organized by UNESCO.
Indigenous and local communities play a key role in biodiversity conservation.
Despite their hopes of peace, their sagas tell of battles with the local indigenous people.
Spend time learning the history and culture of local indigenous people with the goal of building relationships and trust.
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But some alumni of Britain's Deobandi institutions do advocate self-segregation by Muslims, especially where local indigenous culture is dominated by alcohol and drugs.
Parties must work harder to reverse policies and practices that harm indigenous peoples and local communities in Protected Areas, especially in coastal and marine areas.
Hotter summers could result in more insects and parasites that prey on the caribou, which could then also reduce the annual caribou harvest by local indigenous peoples.
Local indigenous peoples have complained in the capital, Tegucigalpa, of ladino settlers moving into their (supposedly protected) areas in Mosquitia and elsewhere in the east, and even killing those who resist them.
The Colombian army has reinforced its presence in the region and - as often happens in Colombia - the local indigenous communities have been the most affected by the escalation of the conflict.
This new UNESCO-UNU book underlines the critical role that indigenous peoples and local communities can play in ongoing international efforts to monitor the progress of global climate change impacts and to develop capacities to respond.
Though they knew about Ciudad Perdida, they kept quiet for fear of attracting the very crowds that now visit the site, which could lead to the disruption of local indigenous populations and the destruction or looting of the site.
Most recently in the Peruvian Amazonas area of Bagua, a group of local indigenous residents rebelled against the presence of foreign companies in the area, despite the fact that President Alan Garcia tried to be sensitive to their needs.
On 1 January of that year, the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed and the National Zapatista Liberation Army -- made up of local indigenous people -- occupied four towns in Chiapas while calling for better conditions for indigenous people and the protection of communal lands.
The meeting also requested the development of a stakeholder engagement strategy for IPBES. It is expected that the scientific community, civil society, the business and industry sector, as well as representatives from indigenous peoples and local communities, will act both as contributors and end users of the Platform.
Local and indigenous knowledge systems and environmental management practices provide valuable insight and tools for tackling ecological challenges.
This speaks to the most basic argument against foreign aid - that it undermines local, indigenous organisations and governments.
Enhancing participatory planning and knowledge management through its work with local and indigenous communities, in ecological sciences and on the co-production of knowledge.
Innovation and social transformation depend on our capacity to combine disciplines and create synergies among all sciences, natural, human and social, including local and indigenous knowledge.
The money, it says, would go toward social services for the local and indigenous populations of the area as well as to research into renewable energy technology.
UNESCO, through its Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) Programme, is working to bring recognition to this issue, and to demonstrate the link between cultural and biological diversity.
In this regard case studies are being developed to illustrate their indigenous innovative solutions to local challenges and the breadth and depth of impact made by such initiatives.
While the benefits of local and indigenous knowledge in reducing disaster risk are increasingly being acknowledged, a challenge remains: how do you integrate such knowledge constructively with scientific knowledge and policy?
The Natural Sciences Sector contributed expertise and priorities from its Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, which focuses on the diverse ways that humans know and interact with the natural world.
For days, roaming bands of local Malays and indigenous Dayaks carrying machetes, spears and guns have been killing Madurese migrants.
Design inspiration is taken from the unique environment in which each property is based, like native architectural signatures and innovative local art and indigenous furniture.
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The local culture, the indigenous if you like, is much stronger than can be overcome simply by the importation of some different DNA. Which, for those who are comforted by there always being an England is, umm, comforting.
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Last week, the National Ocean Council brought together more than 500 Federal, state, tribal, and local government representatives, indigenous community leaders, and other stakeholders and members of the public from across the country for a National Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) Workshop in Washington, DC.
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