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Respecting Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and Culture

Traditional knowledge, practices, and cultural/spiritual values play a vital role in sustaining and enhancing the socio-environmental resilience of indigenous peoples, local communities, and the lands and seas in their care. WCS experts in this stream will help examine how governments, non-governmental and international organizations, and the private sector collaborate in recognizing the role of indigenous and local communities in protected area management.

WCS in Action

The following sessions have been completed.

Friday - November 14, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Protected Areas	15:30 - 17:00	Lilian Painter	Hall 4B1

Saturday - November 15, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
Traditional Fire Management and climate Mitigation	13:30 - 15:00	Julie Kunen and Benedicto Lucas (CONAP)	Hall 2 Nth Pod
Indigenous and community land-rights and conservation	13:30 - 15:00	Michael Painter and Gonzalo Oviedo (IUCN)	Amphitheatre

Tuesday - November 18, 2014

What	When	Who	Where
Local to Global Leaders' Dialogue: What needs to happen in the next 10 years to support local efforts?	08:30 - 10:00	John Robinson, Michael Painter	Hall 4B1

Select Publications

	A Tiger in the Drawing Room: Can Luxury Tourism Benefit Wildlife?
	Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
	Balancing livestock production and wildlife conservation in and around Southern Africa's transfrontier conservation areas
	Biodiversity conservation and the quality of life of indigenous people in the Bolivian Chaco
	Can the IUCN 2008 Protected Areas Management Categories Support Pacific Island Approaches to Conservation?
	Central Africa’s protected areas and the purported displacement of people: A first critical review of existing data (Book Chapter)
	Changes in a coral reef fishery along a gradient of fishing pressure in an Indonesian marine protected area
	Changes in life history and ecological characteristics of coral reef fish catch composition with increasing fishery management
	Comanagement of coral reef social-ecological systems
	Efficiently targeting resources to deter illegal activities in protected areas
	Extent and ecological consequences of hunting in Central African rainforests in the twenty-first century
	Forest elephant crisis in the Congo Basin
	Forest resources use, attitude, and perception of local residents towards community based forest management: Case of the Makira Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) Project, Madagascar
	Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features
	Gorilla Population in Deng Deng National Park and a Logging Concession
	Having your wildlife and eating it too: an analysis of hunting sustainability across tropical ecosystems
	Human Health as a Judicious Conservation Opportunity
	Hunting for a living: Wildlife trade, rural livelihoods and declining wildlife in the Hkakaborazi National Park, north Myanmar
	Hunting patterns in tropical forests adjoining the Hkakaborazi National Park, north Myanmar
	Hunting, livelihoods and declining wildlife in the Hponkanrazi Wildlife Sanctuary, North Myanmar
	Impacts of Protected Areas on Local Livelihoods in Cambodia
	Improving social acceptability of marine protected area networks: A method for estimating opportunity costs to multiple gear types in both fished and currently unfished areas
	Indigenous Alliances for Conservation in Bolivia
	Law, custom and community-based natural resource management in Kubulau District (Fiji).
	Local people value environmental services provided by forested parks
	Management of the Kenyan coast
	Mapping recent deforestation and forest disturbance in northeastern Madagascar.
	Marine reserves as linked social-ecological systemz
	Natural Alliances between Conservationists and Indigenous Peoples
	Patterns of human-wildlife conflicts and compensation: Insights from Western Ghats protected areas.
	Projections of the impacts of gear-modification on the recovery of fish catches and ecosystem function in an impoverished fishery
	Public-private partnerships as a management option for protected areas
	Rainforest Pharmacopeia in Madagascar Provides High Value for Current Local and Prospective Global Uses
	Spatial correlates of livestock depredation by Amur tigers in Hunchun, China: Relevance of prey density and implications for protected area management
	Spiritual Roots of the Land: Hierarchy and Relationships of the Religious Cosmologies of Humans and Their Environment in the Maroantsetra Region of Madagascar
	The empty forest revisited
	The Impacts of Large-Scale Energy Development: Indigenous People and the Bolivia-Brazil Gas Pipeline
	The Perceived Impact of Customary Marine Resource Management on Household and Community Welfare in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia
	What Does It Mean to Successfully Conserve a (Vertebrate) Species?
	Why South-east Asia should be the world's priority for averting imminent species extinctions, and a call to join a developing cross-institutional programme to tackle this urgent issue

Key Staff

	Lilian Painter Country Program Director
	Saw Htun Country Program Director
	Madhu Rao Senior Advisor and Representative of WCS in Singapore
	Deo Kujirakwinja Director Eastern DRC Projects, DR Congo
	Stacy Jupiter Director Melanesia Program
	Elizabeth Bennett Vice President, Species Conservation, Species
	James Watson Director, Science and Research Initiative
	Joseph Walston Vice President, Field Conservation Programs
	Julie Kunen Regional Executive Director, LACP
	Simon Hedges Asian Elephant Coordinator & Ivory Trade Policy Analyst
	Susan Lieberman Vice-President, International Policy