Policy for Biocultural Diversity: Where Are We Now?

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Article: Policy Matters, Issue 17. Policy for Biocultural Diversity: Where are we now? by Luisa Maffi. A brief history of the work that has been done to implement BCD into policy over the past 15 years. “It is arguably critical for advocates of biocultural diversity to continue to rise to the challenge and strive for concrete steps forward at the international and national levels that can, in turn, support and be influenced by local initiatives for biocultural diversity conservation.”

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Sanjay Khanna: Nature, Culture and Climate Change

Sanjay Khanna interviews Luisa Maffi for the Huffington Post.

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Talking to the clouds and listening to the trees – National Geographic News Watch

By David Braun

Tofino, Canada–Sometimes it really is a case of not being able to see the woods for the trees. Or is it the other way round?

I attended recently a congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology, in Tofino, Canada–guest of The Christensen Fund, a Canada-based charity that supports stewards of cultural

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