Working with Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas in South America - Global Protect Areas Strategy Meeting in Costa Rica, 2008

1. WORKING WITH
INDIGENOUS LANDS AND
PROTECTED AREAS

2. • 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

3. 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”.

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. Inside Native Lands Strategy: AMAZON
MOSAICS where we work
Amazon Indigenous
Training Center

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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):

11. 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?

12. The stakes

13. THANKS!
Luis Pabon:
lpabon@tnc.org
Paulina Arroyo:
parroyo@tnc.org
Alexandre Goulart:
agoulart@tnc.org