Proposed Assessment Sites

  • The Potato Park, Cusco, Peru

    The Potato Park, Cusco, Peru

    The Potato Park is located in the mountain ecosystem of Pisac, Cusco, Peru. It comprised of indigenous farmer communities, who are dedicated to the implementation of a conservation model called Indigenous Collective Biocultural Heritage Territories. Their evaluation is focused on local livelihoods in the face of climate change.

  • Zapara-Waorani Traditional Territory, Pastaza and Napo, Ecuador

    Zapara-Waorani Traditional Territory, Pastaza and Napo, Ecuador

    The Zapara People are located in the western Amazon near the Peru-Ecuador border. They live in a tropical rainforest ecosystem and rely on hunting, fishing, gathering wild fruits and planting small gardens.

  • Comarca de Kuna Yala, Panama

    Comarca de Kuna Yala, Panama

    Kuna Yala is an archipelago of 365 islands and a strip of land stretching 37 km along the Caribbean coast of Panama, bordering Colombia and the province of Darién. The proposal is to carry out an evaluation of the impacts of climate change in the island ecosystems that the Kuna depend upon, and the risks they represent for the survival of a people.

  • Pacific Northwest Tribes, USA and Canada

    Pacific Northwest Tribes, USA and Canada

    Salmon Nation encompasses northern California, Northwest Nevada, Oregon, and Washington in the US, and southern British Columbia in Canada. There are two major biomes: Temperate Forest Biome and Arid Great Basin/Columbia Plateau Shrub-Steppe Biome.

  • Kenya: Maasai: Sustainable Pastoralism in the face of Climate Change

    Kenya: Maasai: Sustainable Pastoralism in the face of Climate Change

    With this Ecosystem Assessment, the Maasai of Kajiado, Narok and Nakuru Districts will:

    • Maintain the subsistence needs of their families
    • Build the resilience of their ecosystems drawing upon their IK systems and cultural practices
    • Empower Maasai communities to implement their righhts to conserve and protect their resources, cultures and livelihoods.
  • Adivasi Traditional Territory, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Adivasi Traditional Territory, Andhra Pradesh, India

    This work will be carried out in scheduled areas of Andhra Pradesh in 8 districts. The hills and forests of the Eastern Ghats, Nallamalai and Godavari gorges have been traditional habitat to 60% of the total adivasi population in the state. The livelihoods of adivasi communities depend upon the forests.

  • Sorong: Climate Change, Sustainable livelihoods and Ecosystem Management

    Sorong: Climate Change, Sustainable livelihoods and Ecosystem Management

    There are 250 distinct indigenous peoples cultures in Papua. They depend on the regions resources for their food, shelter, medicine and spiritual sustenance.

    Using their rich indigenous knowledge through this climate change impact assessment, Papuan communities will create life plans that include community-based management plans that conserve local biodiversity, increase resource.

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  • Human Diversity

    Cultures are marvelously fluid and not easily mapped. Globally, language is the strongest indicator of cultural diversity. The astounding tapestry of indigenous peoples is concentrated in the South. With their unique local cultures, they are the rightful owners and managers of biodiversity. Historically, today, and in the future, indigenous peoples and local communities have been and are the key to the development and conservation of biodiversity. (Source: WLMS, adapted by IPBN and RAFI)

  • Biodiversity Hotspots

    Other depictions of biodiversity hotspots seek to emphasize where biodiversity is being destroyed. This map shows where it is found in the highest concentration of species, with moderate weight for areas of high endemism, based on available data for hegher plants and many kinds of animals. (Source: RAFI, adapted from Myers WCMC, and others)

  • Vavilov Centers

    The areas of origin for many major cultivated species, as elaborated by Russian scientist N.I. Vavilov. From these areas came the domesticated crops on which the world depends for food security. Many of these areas remain important centres of in-situ crop diversity, where indigenous peoples and farmers continue their development. (Source: IPGRI)

  • Novel Climates

    39% of the world will have novel climates in 2100. In general, the models show that existing climate zones will shift toward higher latitudes and higher elevations, squeezing out the climates at the extremes — tropical mountaintops and the poles — and leaving room for unfamiliar climes and new ecological niches around the equator. These are the richest biologically and culturally areas of the world. (Source: Eco-Justice Blog - Andes)

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