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Conservation experience: Invite the gods and goddesses for protection, Juju Island, South Korea

Posted on: Dec 14, 2015. By: In: News With: No comments
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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 […]

Japanese translation of the “IUCN UNESCO Sacred Natural Sites Guidelines” launched.

Posted on: Nov 20, 2012. By: In: Asia, Guidelines, News With: No comments
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The Japanese section of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas Japanese recently and proudly launched their translation of the “IUCN-UNESCO Sacred Natural Sites Guidelines”. The launch happened late last month at the conference of parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity.  It was part of a series of events that highlighted the role of […]

French Language Sacred Natural Sites Guidelines Launched

Posted on: May 24, 2012. By: In: Guidelines, News With: No comments
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This week at the Indigenous Forum of the International Congress of Ethnobiology the IUCN - UNESCO Sacred Natural Sites Guidelines - French Language Version were launched.