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A non-profit association based in Catalonia, Spain, aimed at the study, dissemination and promotion of the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage values inherent in Nature, particularly in relation to the conservation of nature and natural protected areas.

 

Documentation Centre

The Silene Documentation Centre contains resources and documents on the world’s intangible spiritual and cultural heritage and its relevance on a local to international scale to the conservation of natural heritage. The service is provided in four languages -English, Spanish, French and Catalan. All documents are in their original languages, being accompanied by translations whenever possible.

It is a resource of the Specialist Group on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas of the World Commission on Protected Areas of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

 

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News

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Thomas Merton

When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is…

Jean-Yves Leloup

To meditate is to live this eternal instant at the heart of present time, to open our finite…

Michel Maxime Egger

External ecology as a safeguard of Creation, of the natural environment, must be verticalized, supplemented by an internal…

Xavier Melloni

Rediscovering the sacred way of relating to nature, this is what we urgently need.

Consultancy Projects

Projects devoted to the study, promotion and dissemination of the cultural and spiritual values of nature and landscape. In many instances, the projects had been undertaken in collaboration with other organisations, local, national or internbational.

Capacity buidling and dissemination