Coron Island is an archipelago full of coral reefs, brackish lagoons, المنغروف, limestone forests and flourishing biodiversity. There are ten lakes in the area considered sacred by the Calamian Tagbanwa, called Panyaan’s. The lakes are also officially recognised by the state as indigenous ancestral territories. In the face of increasing development pressures such as mining […]

During the era of the slave trade Winti religion travelled with the African people to Suriname where they established a new connection to the land and their ancestors. اليوم, their descendants still use many medicinal and spiritual herbs from the groves for their sacred rituals and healing ceremonies.   The Winti belief emphasizes protection of […]

Near the Gureombi village on the South-Korean island of Jeju, Shamans pray to the ocean for abundance and prosperity. They perform the Chogamje ceremony where they invite the 18.000 Gods and Goddesses from the ocean into the sacred place. Before the gods enter the site it must first be purified. For thousands of years these […]

"دعوة إلى الاعتراف القانوني بالمواقع والأراضي الطبيعية المقدسة, وأنظمة الحوكمة العرفية الخاصة بهم "الذي أصدرته مؤسسة Gaia والشبكة الأفريقية للتنوع البيولوجي. يقدم التقرير اللجنة الأفريقية لحقوق الإنسان والشعوب’ الحقوق ذات الحجج المقنعة والموضوعية المتعلقة بعنصر أساسي من التقاليد الأفريقية الأصلية وتدعو إلى حاسم […]

Emperor Basil I of Byzantine bestowed the monks with the sole right of entrance to the Mount Athos peninsula in 885 A.D. They have built a flourishing religious community and maintained and protected the ecosystem ever since. Their management predominantly consists of controlling entrance and regulating timber practices. The peninsula is officially recognized as a […]

أثار لويس مستشار SNSI أليستر ماكنتوش, لم يكن تضخيم زورقه وأخذها في جولة حول جزر هيبريدس قصة نشاط بطولي في الهواء الطلق. أليستير, الذي شارك منذ فترة طويلة في قراءة روح المناظر الطبيعية ومهتمًا بترابط الناس الأعمق مع الطبيعة, توجهت إلى الحج إلى المقدس […]