The Silene Documentation Center contains resources and documents about the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage linked to nature and natural heritage, from the local to the international level. Summaries are offered in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Catalan, although the documents are in the original languages, accompanied by translations, when available.
It is the reference documentation center of the Group Specialist in Cultural and Spiritual Values of the World Commission for Natural Protected Areas, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The development of societies, including spiritual development, is closely connected to forests. The larger interrelations among changing societies,…
The sense of wonder is what makes people fall in love with the natural world and get involved…
This essay has two main aims: the first is to expose the mythic basis of modern science. In…
Leroy Little Bear is a Canadian indigenous people, member of the Black Foot tribe, professor at the University…
Contemporary Western science is based on the premise that all reality is material or physical. There is no…
A harmonious relationship with nature can only be based on the recovery of the cosmic and spiritual dimension…
This article summarizes the Islamic perspective on the suffering and complaint of the Earth, as a result of…
The indigenous territory of the Yapú Zone “Umu – Kaya Yepa” occupies ca. 150,000 hectares of rain forest…
Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr, discusses the practice of “dadirri” according the tradition of the Aboriginal Australians, from the Daly River…
This paper explores the spiritual dimensions of traditional Māori ways of knowing the world and the child. It…