Recognising territories and areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) overlapped by protected areas
Many protected areas overlap with Indigenous and community‑conserved territories (ICCAs). Properly recognizing and supporting these areas strengthens conservation, upholds rights, and improves governance. This volume outlines six pathways and 20 practices to guide equitable integration of ICCAs into all protected‑area types.
Subject Tags
- Indigenous Peoples
- Large scale protection
- Social Sciences
Abstract
Many protected areas worldwide overlap with ‘territories and areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and local communities’ or ‘ICCAs’ (Indigenous peoples’ and community conserved areas’). These overlapped ICCAs include conserved commons, sacred places and Indigenous and community protected areas. Appropriately recognising and respecting overlapped ICCAs in protected area governance, management and practice can strengthen conservation, affirm rights and promote equitable protected area governance. This volume identifies six approaches or pathways and provides guidance on implementing 20 good practices for appropriately recognizing, respecting and supporting overlapped ICCAs in existing, new and expanded protected areas of all governance types and management categories.
Citation
Stevens, S., Hay-Edie, T., Larrea, C.M., Ramos, A., Broome, N.P., Eghenter, C., Fitzsimons, J., Goradze, I., Ironside, J. and Mellis, C., 2024. Recognising territories and areas conserved by Indigenous peoples and local communities (ICCAs) overlapped by protected areas. IUCN WCPA Good Practice Guidelines Series, (34). https://doi.org/10.2305/RSLY2962
TNC Authors
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James A Fitzsimons
Senior Advisor, Global Protection Strategies
The Nature Conservancy
Email: jfitzsimons@tnc.org