a unique online event to celebrate the launch of Terralingua’s new portal
On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 we celebrated the launch of Terralingua’s new portal through a global online discussion with experts on biocultural diversity conservation.
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O V E R V I E W:
During this International Year of Biodiversity, many people are coming together to learn how to safeguard nature and reduce biodiversity loss. We at Terralingua think that safeguarding the web of life means sustaining diversity in both nature and culture! We invited a group of experts and the public to partake in a conversation about biocultural diversity on this portal. The portal is an online companion to our new book, Biocultural Diversity Conservation: a Global Sourcebook (Earthscan 2010), the very first global resource on biocultural diversity conservation.
The main event took place on our discussion forum. An archive of the discussions can be found at the following links, feel welcome to continue the discussion!
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Terralingua Portal Launch (a)
8-10 am Pacific Daylight Time
08:00 CULTURE AND CONSERVATION
In this panel, we discuss how revitalizing local cultural beliefs and traditional knowledge can both contribute to conserving and managing wild and domesticated species, and help strengthen cultural identity, livelihoods, and human well-being.
Panelists: Jan van der Ploeg, Yasuyuki Morimoto, C. Manjula
08:40 LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
This panel focuses on the interconnections of language, traditional knowledge, and the environment, and on why it is vital to ensure the intergenerational transmission of cultural values, knowledge, and languages for the conservation of biocultural diversity.
Panelists: Anvita Abbi, Samantha Ross, Jonathan Long
09:20 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND PROTECTED AREAS
Here we explore how synergies can be established between the rights, needs and aspirations of Indigenous Peoples and the goals of environmental conservation, so as to ensure that the protection of biodiversity and sensitive ecosystems is compatible with cultural survival.
Panelists: Márcia Gomez de Oliveira, Norbert Suchanek, Cristina Mittermeier, Kabir Bavikatte
Terralingua Portal Launch (b)
2-4 pm Pacific Daylight Time
14:00 CONSERVING MEXICO’S BIOCULTURAL HERITAGE
The panelists discuss the challenges and opportunities of conserving the biocultural heritage of Mexico, the world’s third main center of biocultural diversity (after Indonesia and India), and one of the world’s main centers of plant domestication and diversification.
Panelists: Victor Toledo, Luisa Maffi, David Rapport
14:40 REVITALIZING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF FOODS AND MEDICINES
This panel addresses the importance of maintaining and revitalizing traditional agricultural and medicinal knowledge and practices for cultural identity, food security, human health, and biodiversity conservation.
Panelists: Felipe Montoya Greenheck, Laxmi Pant, Idah Faridah
15:20 COMMUNITY-BASED CONSERVATION
Here we examine a variety of community-based approaches to the conservation of biocultural heritage that have been receiving increasing attention in recent times: from community conserved/protected areas, to biocultural community protocols, to natural sacred sites.
Panelists: Hugh Govan, Harry Jonas, Holly Shrumm, Desalegn Desissa, Jeanine Pfeiffer
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P A N E L I S T S
and Background Reading
[...] and their biocultural diversity companion portal (http://www.terralingua.org/bcdconservation/?page_id=949 ), while also developing an outreach campaign to let the general public, stakeholders, researchers [...]
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