United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
UN General Assembly2007
Declaration 61/295 of the Assembly of the United Nations Organization, approved on 13 September 2007. This Declaration contains…
Ethics
Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth
2010
Final declaration of the Working Group on the Rights of Mother Earth, part of the People of the…
Knowledge and the Sacred
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein1989
A remarkably comprehensive exposition and analysis of humanity’s pursuit of knowledge, from the sophia perennis viewpoint, which proposes…
Sacred Natural Sites: Conservation of Biological and Cultural Diversity
Verschuuren, Bas [et al.].2010
This document provides a synthesis of the importance of sacred natural sites as reservoirs of biological, cultural and…
Le Moine et la Nature dans la Tradition Ortodoxe
Hiéromoine Macaire1991
The familiarity that holy monks had with animals and nature in general is not merely an image of…
Ethics, Religion and Biodiversity: Relations between Conservation and Cultural Values
Hamilton, Lawrence S. (ed.)1993
The book is one of the results of a Symposium at the XVII Pacific Science Congress in Hawaii…
The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion
Eliade, Mircea1987
A classic work that aims to clarify in an accessible fashion without oversimplifying the difference between the religious…
Ten Commandments for the Environment
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace2005
In this document Bishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, Secretary in 2005 to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, discusses…
The Conservation Value of Sacred Sites of Indigenous People of the Arctic: A Case Study in Northern Russia.
Conservation of Artic Flora and Fauna 2004
This document is a summary of a case study of the sacred sites of two indigenous peoples in…
What is Happening on Our Beautiful Land: A Pastoral Letter on Ecology
1988
Declaration by the Conference of Catholic Bishops in the Philippines in 1988 in response to the constant and…