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A Selection of Our Activities and Accomplishments, 1996-2008
1996 view annual report
- Terralingua incorporated as international non-governmental organization (NGO) devoted to fostering the integrated protection, maintenance and restoration of the world's biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity through an innovative program of research, education, policy and on-the-ground action.
- Organizers, international working conference “Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge, Endangered Environments”. University of California, Berkeley, 25-27 October 1996. view conference report
1998 view annual report
- Accredited participants, Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples. World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 23-24 July 1998.
- Concept paper “Indigenous Knowledge and Languages and Intellectual Property Rights” submitted to World Intellectual Property Organization. Follow-up to Roundtable on Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples, Geneva, Switzerland, 23-24 July 1998.
- Accredited participants, 16th Session of UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, Geneva, Switzerland, 27-31 July 1998.
- Statement “Linguistic Human Rights in Education” (UN doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.4/1998/2) submitted to 16th Session of UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, Geneva, Switzerland, 27-31 July 1998, Principal Theme “Indigenous Peoples: Education and Language”.
- Organizers, breakout session “Indigenous Peoples and Language: Integrated Perspectives on Linguistic, Cultural, and Biological Diversity” at 16th Session of UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations, Geneva, Switzerland, 27-31 July 1998.
- Organizers, community working session “Supporting cultural and environmental diversity through indigenous language development and protection of linguistic human rights”. Sixth International Congress of Ethnobiology. Whakatane, Aotearoa/New Zealand, 23-28 November 1998.
- 1998-2000 Consultants, World Wide Fund for Nature. Project “Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, Traditional Communities, and WWF’s Ecoregion-Based Conservation”. Cross-mapping of world’s ethnolinguistic groups onto WWF map of “Global 200” conservation-priority ecoregions; report writing; development of guidelines for WWF partnerships with indigenous peoples in biodiversity conservation.
1999 view annual report
2000 view annual report
- Publication: Indigenous and Traditional Peoples of the World and Ecoregion Conservation: An Integrated Approach to Conserving the World's Biological and Cultural Diversity, by G. Oviedo, L. Maffi, and P.B. Larsen and companion map Indigenous and Traditional Peoples and the Global 200 Ecoregions. Gland, Switzerland: WWF-International and Terralingua.
- Distinguished lecture (by L. Maffi): Coevolution: Nature and Culture. Berkeley Natural History Museums’ Evolution Lectures Series, University of California at Berkeley, 15 November 2000.
- Organizers, video screening “Coevolution: Nature and Culture”. Berkeley Natural History Museums’ Evolution Lectures Series, University of California at Berkeley, 15 November 2000.
2001 view annual report
- Publication: On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge and the Environment, L. Maffi (ed.). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- Invited participants, International Science Council’s Working Group on Science and Indigenous Knowledge. East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i, 26-27 May 2001.
- Invited participants, Working Group on Indigenous Peoples and Intellectual Property Rights, summit meeting “Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge II”. Honolulu, Hawai’i, 28 May-1 June 2001.
- Presenters (with WWF), lecture “Cultural and Biological Diversity: Indigenous and Traditional Peoples in the World’s Ecoregions”. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., 8 June 2001.
- Co-organizers (with Northern Arizona University), practitioners’ retreat “Bridging Ecological Restoration and Language Revitalization Efforts in Native American Communities”. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 17-18 June 2001.
- Advisors, National Geographic Magazine. Issue 200(3), September 2001, Earth Pulse map of vanishing languages.
- Invited participants, 2nd Technical Design Workshop, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Cape Town, South Africa, 8-11 October 2001.
- Keynote talk (by L. Maffi) “Facing the language endangerment crisis in the 21st century: Where are we now?” . 2nd International Conference on Endangered Languages of the Pacific Rim. Kyoto, Japan, 30 November-2 December 2001.
2002 view annual report
- Keynote talk (by T. Skutnabb-Kangas). International Mother Language Day celebration. UNESCO, Paris, 21 February 2002.
- Publication: Safeguarding the Uniqueness of the Colorado Plateau: An Ecoregional Assessment of Biocultural Diversity, by G. Nabhan et al. Pp. xi-xii. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Sustainable Environments, Terralingua, and Grand Canyon Wildlands Council.
- Publication: In Light of Our Differences: How Diversity in Nature and Culture Makes Us Human (by D. Harmon). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- Participants, World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 August-4 September 2002, with support from Ford Foundation. Advocates for biocultural diversity and the role of language and traditional knowledge in sustainable development. Keynote speech (by T. Skutnabb-Kangas) in panel on education for sustainable development organized by UNESCO and South African government.
2003 view annual report
- Publication: Sharing a World of Difference: The Earth’s Linguistic, Cultural, and Biological Diversity, by T. Skutnabb-kangas, L. Maffi, and D. Harmon, and companion map The World’s Biocultural Diversity: People, Languages, and Ecosystems. Paris: UNESCO, Terralingua, and WWF.
- Participants, World Parks Congress. Durban, South Africa, 8-17 September 2003, with support from IUCN – The World Conservation Union. Advocates for biocultural approach to conservation and management of parks and protected areas.
- Cope Lecture, (by L. Maffi) “On Biocultural Diversity: Transdiciplinary Thinking for Planetary Survival” . William Jewell College. Liberty, Missouri, 5 November 2003.
2004 view annual report
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Publication: Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity, T. Carlson and L. Maffi (eds.). Advances in Economic Botany Series Vol. 15. Bronx, N.Y.: New York Botanical Garden Press.
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Publication: History, Culture, and Conservation, Policy Matters 13 special issue, G. Borrini-Feyerabend, K. MacDonald, and L. Maffi (eds.).
- Organizers, panel “A Global Index of Biocultural Diversity”. 9th International Congress of Ethnobiology. Canterbury, UK, 13-17 June 2004.
- Invited participants, IUCN – UNDP Dialogues on Biological and Cultural Diversity and the Millennium Development Goals. Barcelona Universal Forum of Cultures, 25-26 September 2004.
- Co-sponsors (with IUCN), breakout session “"El papel de los pueblos indígenas en la conservación y el desarrollo sostenible de la Amazonía [The role of indigenous peoples in the conservation and sustainable development of Amazonia]”. 3rd World Conservation Congress, Bangkok, Thailand, 17-25 November 2004.
2005 view annual report
- Publication: Review essay (by l. Maffi), Linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity. Annual Review of Anthropology 34: 599-617.
- Invited lectures (by L. Maffi) on Terralingua’s Global Biocultural Diversity Assessment”. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, Huhehaote, and Beijing, China. 1-15 June 2005.
- Organizers, workshop “Gaps and Needs in Biocultural Diversity Research”. Gainesville, Fla., 21-22 April 2005.
- Invited panelists, “L’estinzione delle diversità linguistiche” [The extinction of linguistic diversity]. Festival della Scienza [Festival of Science], Genova, Italy, 5 November 2005.
- Invited participants, 1st meeting of UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre’s 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership. Cambridge, UK, 12-13 December 2005.
2006 view annual report
- Participants, Ad Hoc Open-Ended Inter-Sessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Granada, Spain, 23-27 January 2006.
- Invited participants, 2nd meeting of UNEP-WCMC 2010 Biodiversity Indicators Partnership. Cambridge, UK, 7-8 February 2006.
- Statement on linguistic diversity on the internet submitted to International Telecommunications Union and UNESCO Global Symposium on Promoting the Multilingual Internet, Geneva, 9-11 May 2006.
- Reviewers of United Nations University concept paper “Establishing a UNU initiative on traditional knowledge”.
- Presenters, “Indicators of Biocultural Diversity”. Canadian Sustainability Indicators Network’s on-line learning event. 8 June 2006.
- Invited participants, conference “Endogenous Development and Bio-Cultural Diversity: The interplay of worldviews, globalisation and locality”. Geneva, Switzerland, 3-5 October 2006.
- Invited panelists, “L'evoluzione dell'uomo e la biodiversità della Terra [Human evolution and the Earth’s biodiversity]”. Slow Food conference “Terra Madre”, Torino, Italy, 26-30 October 2006.
2007 view annual report
- Invited lectures (by L. Maffi), “Eco-Cultural Health for the 21st Century”. University of Tokyo, 18 April 2007 and Research Institute on Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, 23 April 2007.
- Co-organizers, roundtable “Unity in Diversity: (Re)discovering Organic Thinking for a Sustainable Future”. Festival della Scienza [Festival of Science], Genova, Italy, 27 October 2007.
- Publication: Culture, by L. Maffi and E. Woodley. In Chapter 5, Biodiversity, Global Environment Outlook: Environment for Development (GEO 4) Report. Pp. 182-185. Nairobi: UNEP.view
- Publication: Biocultural diversity and sustainability (by L. Maffi). In Sage Handbook on Environment and Society, ed. by J. Pretty, A. Ball, T. Benton, J. Guivant, D. Lee, D. Orr, M. Pfeffer and H. Ward. Pp. 267-277. London: Sage Publications.
2008
- Co-organizers (with American Museum of Natural History and IUCN), international conference “Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy”. American Museum of Natural History, New York, 2-5 April 2008.
- Organizers, events “The World’s Cultural Diversity: New Measurements Show What’s Happening and Why It’s Important to Conservationists” and “Diverse Planet, Healthy Planet: Biological and Cultural Diversity as Cornerstones of Eco-cultural Health—Implications for Assessment, Policy, and Implementation”, and co-organizers (with AMNH and IUCN), event “Integrating and Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity: The Difficult Questions”. 4th World Conservation Congress, Barcelona, 5-14 November 2008.
- Co-sponsors, motions “Integrating Culture and Cultural Diversity into IUCN’s Policy and Programme”, “IUCN Adoption of Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”, and “Recognition and Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in Protected Areas”. 4th World Conservation Congress, Barcelona, 5-14 November 2008.
- Publication: Global Source Book on Biocultural Diversity: Worldwide Experiences in an Integrated Approach to Sustaining Cultures and Biodiversity (by L. Maffi and E. Woodley). Forthcoming.
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