Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Management Plan 2010–2020
Director of National Parks2010
The landscape of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park shows the aboriginal uses and symbols of the territory developed…
Documentation centre
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).
- Information and sensitization
Tools for information, awareness and reflection on the cultural and spiritual values of nature and landscape in various traditions and worldviews. Pedagogical, didactic and training resources that help integrate spiritual values in the conservation of nature, including myths, tales, and legends. - International declarations
Declarations of spiritual, scientific, political or social authorities in relation to the spiritual values of nature and the need to acknowledge them. - Legal documents
Conventions, treaties, laws, regulations of any administrative, national or international scope. - Management documents
Actions that reinforce the preservation and enjoyment of the values of the intangible heritage of nature, in an integrated way with conservation, in all fields, including the evaluation of their effectiveness. Traditional systems of governance of territories and resources. - Planning documents
Plans and programs aimed at the conservation of nature, protected areas, habitats or species, that incorporate the spiritual and cultural dimensions. - Reflections on nature and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between nature and spirituality, in any of the concepts and the meanings that both may have and in all its manifestations. - Reflections on science and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between modern science and spirituality, or with the traditional sciences of nature and / or traditional ecological knowledge. - Strategical documents
Guidelines, strategies, recommendations or proposals, from congresses, symposia, seminars, workshops, etc. either international or national - Videographers
Movies, documentaries and interviews - Wisdom quotes
Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
Valuing Trees in a Changing Cultural Landscape: A Case Study from Northwestern Greece
Stara, Kalliopi; Tsiakiris, Rigas; Wong, Jennifer L. G.2015
This paper explores the changing relationship between society and the environment, taking as a proxy the local valuation…
Report of the Native American Sacred Lands Forum
Native American Sacred Lands Forum2001
The Native American Sacred Lands Forum was convened because of a need to find solutions to the serious…
Property Rights and Sacred Sites: Federal Regulatory Responses to American Indian Religious Claims on Public Land
Yablon, Marcia2004
Part I examines the history of Indian sacred sites protection. It discusses the historic lack of agency protection…
Sítios Naturais Sagrados no Brasil: o gigante desconhecido
Fernandes-Pinto, Érika; Irving, Marta de Azevedo2015
This article proposes describing the natural and cultural diversity of sacred natural spaces and showing the ways that…
A Call for Legal Recognition of Sacred Natural Sites and Territories, and their Customary Governance Systems
Chennells, Roger; Nadal, Carine; The Gaia Foundation 2015
The report aims to provide the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights with persuasive and substantive arguments…
The Green Patriarch
Chryssavgis, John2010
This paper describes the work of Patriarch Bartholomew I for the protection of the natural environment during the…
Legal and Institutional Aspects of Recognizing and Supporting Conservation by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Jonas, Harry; Kothari, Ashish; Shrumm, Holly2012
This synthesis report is based on two studies promoted by the ICCA Consortium between 2011 and 2012. The…
India Forest Rights Act
Parliament of India 2006
Towards 2006, the Government of India initiated a strong and progressive policy in order to protect traditional communities…
Laudato si’. On care for our common home
Pope Francis 2015
This is the first encyclical that a Roman pontiff dedicates to the global ecological crisis. It analyzes in…