WORKING WITH INDIGENOUS LANDS AND

PROTECTED AREAS

•  1.3 billion people depend on natural resources for employment

•  Around 60 million IPs depend on forests for their survival.

•  80% of the terrestrial eco regions are inhabited by IPs

•  One third of the PAs in developing countries overlap with IPs

Context

Core Values

TNC promotes Respect for People, Communities and Cultures and affirms that “enduring conservation success depends on the active involvement of people and partners whose lives and livelihoods are linked to the natural systems we seek to conserve”.

Issues addressed

TNC’s Policy- summary TNC recognizes indigenous peoples’ land, social, economic and cultural rights and promotes the full and effective participation in decisions that affect their lives, their traditional lands and territories, and their cultural integrity

ILO, CBD, UN, BINGOs and National legislation

• Collective rights • Protected Areas • Governance, participation and self determination • Principle of Free, Prior and informed consent

• Lands and Territories • Property rights and traditional knowledge • Natural resources, Access and Benefit Sharing • Social and economic development

• Discrimination, equality and gender • Infrastructure development • International borders

International Agreements & Legislation

TNC AMAZON PROGRAM – AN EXAMPLE OF INTEGRATING INDIGENOUS LANDS WITH CONSERVATION

Indigenous Lands in Amazon Basin

Country Indigenous Lands

(hectares) % of Amazon territory per

country

Brasil 107.529.833 20,8 Peru 15,700.000 21,8

Equador 5.596.275 48 Bolívia 3.274.557 19,2

The importance of IL´s in Amazon

Inside Native Lands Strategy: AMAZON MOSAICS where we work

Amazon Indigenous Training Center

Socio-environmental Diagnosys

(ETHNOMAPPING)

Landscape Planning

(ETHNOZONING)

TERRITORIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL

MANAGEMENT

MONITORING & EVALUATION

LEVERAGE & POLICY

SELF- MANAGEMENT

AND EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION

INPUTS FOR IP´S

INPUTS FOR PUBLIC POLICIES

PARTICIPATORY APPROACH

INSTITUTIONAL STRENGHTENING TRAINNING CONSERVATION PROJECTS SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION STAKEHOLDERS COMMITMENT MOSAIC MANAGEMENT IMPACTS MITIGATION

Conceptual Model: Territorial & Environmental Management

Terra Indígena Uaçá

Terra Indígena Galibi

Terra Indígena Juminã

Terra Indígena Uaçá

Terra Indígena Galibi

Terra Indígena Juminã

LONG-TERM RESULTS

Building a system How do we support indigenous Amazonian organizations in influencing

public policies?

Supporting Indigenous Lands Territorial and Environmental Management System building and implementation (SIGATI):

NETWORKS AND ALLIANCES:

POLITICS:

PA´s Market Enterprises

Indigenous & Enviro

Agencies

GOV

Indigenous Organization

Local NGO´s

Ind. Land B

Ind. Land C

Ind. Land A

SIGATI

U$ 38 GEF

SNUC Brasil´s PA

National System

WISH LIST

Deforestation in 2008: increased by 48% in comparison to last year; There is very little deforestation on Indigenous Lands (Amazon PA´s have 3,7%!!). http://www.imazon.org.br/publicacoes/publicacao.asp?id=549

News from the Rainforest

Brazilian Rainforest Deforestation Newsletter (June, 2008):

Issues for IP´s and PA´s

•  How do we integrate PAs and indigenous lands? How do we build mosaic management guidelines and institutionality?

•  How do we ensure new markets for environmental services include indigenous and protected areas (carbon, avoided deforestation eg) ?

•  How do we measure effective conservation on indigenous lands?

•  How do we minimise the impact of infrastructure

expansion on PAs and IL´s?

The stakes

THANKS!

Luis Pabon: lpabon@tnc.org

Paulina Arroyo: parroyo@tnc.org

Alexandre Goulart: agoulart@tnc.org