Santiago Jaime Mariscal (Pronatura) Bas och Verschuuren (CVNI & IUCN CSVPA) besökte territorier Mayos och Seris i kustområdet öknen samt de snötäckta bergen i Tarahumara.

På Delos III, the presentation will focus on three different sacred sites in Mayo territories that come under different governance arrangements and land tenures which leads to a variety of conservation opportunities to be explored. Delos III focuses on conserving the integrity of sacred natural sites in technologically developed countries’ and will be helt from the 1st till the 3rd of June in Inari Finland.

Följande mål har fastställts för detta tredje Delos arbetsmöte:

• Respekt heliga naturområden som rör ursprungsbefolkningar och minoriteter trossamfund i teknologiskt utvecklade länder (baserat på det samiska folket i Finland, Sweden, Norge och Ryssland).
• Vägledning för hållbar förvaltning av mainstream heliga / Sacred Lands.

Pronatura and CVNI’s joint presentation aims to contribute to discussion on the two objectives above. Sacred sites in Mexico have known long periods of syncretism and Pronatura’s experience with the methodology it has developed will be key for delivering advice on developing further guidance on this matter. The Delos Initiative on ‘sacred natural sites in technologically developed countries’ was launched in 2004, in the framework of the Specialist Group on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas of IUCN/WCPA. Initiativet koordineras gemensamt av Thymio Papayannis (Med-INA) och Josep-Maria Mallarach (Silene). Två andra Delos workshops har organiserats hittills. Delos1 i Montserrat (Katalonien), Spain on 23-26 November 2006 and Delos2 in Ouranoupolis (Mt Athos), Greece on 24-28 November 2007. Their proceedings were published in 2007 och 2009.

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