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 […]
For Lewis raised SNSI advisor Alastair McIntosh, inflating his canoe and taking it for a spin around the Hebrides Islands was not a story of heroic outdoor activity. Alistair, who’s been long involved with reading the soul of landscapes and interested in people’s deeper intertwinements with nature, headed out for a pilgrimage to the sacred […]
In the Niger delta, the Biseni and Osiami people live together in harmony with local crocodiles. The lakes were the crocodiles live lakes are considered sacred and the crocodiles are seen as brothers to the Bisini and Osiami. Whenever a crocodile dies it gets a funeral just like a human being. This co-existence is threatened […]
This four-day film festival (oct 5-8) with dialogues from guest speakers takes place at Movie W Film Theatre in Wageningen Netherlands. The festival evolves around the mining boom currently threatening the environment, people and indigenous communities around the world. It highlights the impacts on indigenous peoples’ sacred places and their ways of living, seeing and […]
The tweets prior to the event showed this years’ hot issues at the International Congress of Conservation Biology (ICCB) in Montpellier France would be ‘drones’ and ‘religion’. As part of the latter, SNSI was invited collaborate in a session on the role of faith and spirituality in conservation organised by the Society on Conservation Biology’s […]
Sy'n digwydd yn Sydney Awstralia ym mis Tachwedd eleni, Parciau Cyngres y Byd IUCN (WPC) yn digwydd bob deng mlynedd ac yn gosod yr agenda ar gyfer ardaloedd gwarchodedig cynllunio, rheoli a llywodraethu ar draws y byd. Yn 2003 y digwyddiad ei gynnal yn Durban De Affrica dan nawdd Nelson Mandela a ddywedodd: Ni welaf unrhyw dyfodol ar gyfer parciau, […]
Mae'r Fenter Safleoedd Sacred Naturiol, IUCN Swyddfa Ranbarthol Asiaidd a'r Comisiwn y Byd ar Ardaloedd Gwarchodedig yn Japan yn datblygu cyhoeddiad o'r enw: Asiaidd Sacred Safleoedd Naturiol: Athroniaeth ac Ymarfer mewn Ardaloedd a Chadwraeth Gwarchodedig. The publication is part of the Asian Network Project that kicked off at the first Asian Parks Congress in Sendai […]
Mae'r Fenter Safleoedd Naturiol Sacred a Oxlajuj Ajpop, the National Council of Maya Spiritual Leaders in Guatemala have been working together for over four years now. What started as a collaboration to get broader and international support for the Law Initiative of Sacred Sites in Guatemala has grown into a country programme that is actively […]
Asiaidd Sacred Safleoedd Naturiol: Mae athroniaeth Asiaidd hynafol a ymarfer gyda arwyddocâd sylfaenol i ardaloedd gwarchodedig. (llwytho i lawr yr alwad hon) Within the context of the Asian Sacred Sites Network Project, IUCN WCPA Japan, Rhwydwaith Bioamrywiaeth Japan a'r Fenter Safleoedd Naturiol Cysegredig mewn cydweithrediad â grŵp Arbenigol IUCN WCPA ar Werthoedd Diwylliannol ac Ysbrydol […]
Geiriad: Presentation of the Conference Statement by the indigenous participants. Llun: Bas Verschuuren. Gan RefWorks, Thora Herrmann and Bas Verschuuren on behalf of the conference co-organizers In September 2013, grŵp o bron 80 cyfranogwyr o 12 gwahanol wledydd a 7 gwahanol pobloedd brodorol datblygu "Datganiad Gynhadledd ac Argymhellion ar: Recognition and Safeguarding of the […]
