BUILDING CULTURAL DIMENSIONS

INTO ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE

By

Jeffrey A. McNeely

Climate

change

BiodiversityInternational

waters

GEF’s priorities cannot be addressed separately.

All depend on healthy and resilient ecosystems, which

in turn depend on healthy cultures.

World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA), January 2008

These people live in World Heritage sites

But what about the other 88% of the land?

GEF seeks to address

root causes. But root

solutions – namely

people and cultures – need more attention

1. Recognize that cultural and biological diversity are part of the same package

Biodiversity hotspots

Language hotspots