Environmentally significant life experiences: what do they have in common?
Echarri Iribarren, Fernando2016
A primary aim of Environmental Education is to promote respect for environmental values. Environmental Education needs to explore…
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.
Strengthening cross-sector partnerships to recognise the contributions of nature to health, well-being and quality of life
IUCN2016
This new resolution of the IUCN General Assembly calls for strengthening cross-sector partnerships to recognise the contributions of…
Christian Monastic Lands as Protected Landscapes and Community Conserved Areas: An Overview
J-M Mallarach, J. Corcó & T. Papayannis2016
Using a literature review, diverse types of research and empirical evidence, this paper explores whether the essential features…
Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change
International Islamic Climate Change Symposium2015
Faith communities increasingly recognise that the climate crisis is also a moral crisis. The adverse impacts of climate…
Healing Animals, Feeding Souls: Ethnobotanical Values at Sacred Sites in Central Italy
Frascaroli, F; Bhagwat, Sh; Diemer, M.2014
The authors use first–hand vegetation surveys and published records to examine the occurrence of ethnobotanical values at 30…
Santiago de Compostela Declaration on Tourism and Pilgrimages
World Tourism Organisation2014
This document consists of a statement by the participants in the First International Congress on Tourism and Pilgrimages…
The Brao-Kavet and their Sacred Mountains, Cambodia
Baird, Ian G.2013
Brao-Kavet are an indigenous ethnic group in northeastern Cambodia and southern Laos. Although in recent decades most have…
Jordan River Covenant: International and interreligious restoration statement
Friends of the Earth Middle East2013
This declaration urges governments of the three countries sharing the basin of the river Jordan (i.e Israel, Jordan…
Study on the application of criterion (vii): considering superlative natural phenomena and exceptional natural beauty within the World Heritage Convention
Mitchell, Nora et al.2013
The purpose of this study is to review, clarify and strengthen the application and assessment of criterion (vii…
Recognizing and Safeguarding Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples in Northern and Arctic Regions
International Conference Protecting the Sacred in Northern and Arctic Regions2013
In September 2013, a group of nearly 80 participants from seven different Indigenous Peoples developed the “Conference Statement…