Protecting Amazonia Should Focus on Protecting Indigenous, Traditional Peoples and Their Territories

Protecting Indigenous Knowledge

The controversies surrounding intellectual property protection are most obvious when it comes to protecting indigenous knowledge. The firmly entrenched patenting laws in the developed world provide recognition and economic monopoly to individual inventors. Consequently, large and small companies have been able to appropriate the economic benefits from the technological knowledge protected throu...

TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS Protecting and Respecting Indigenous Knowledge and Medicine

Geographic Distribution of Isolated Indigenous Societies in Amazonia and the Efficacy of Indigenous Territories

The headwaters of the Amazon Basin harbor most of the world's last indigenous peoples who have limited contact with encroaching colonists. Knowledge of the geographic distribution of these isolated groups is essential to assist with the development of immediate protections for vulnerable indigenous settlements. We used remote sensing to document the locations of 28 isolated villages within the ...

Protecting Community Rights over Traditional Knowledge

S I D E 1 – C a S E S T U D I E S 1 C h i n a C a s e S t u d y P a r t i c i p a t o r y M a i z e B r e e d i n g & P r o t e c t i o n o f F a r m e r s ’ R i g h t s 2 I n d i a C a s e S t u d y P r o t e c t i n g L e p c h a & L i m b u s F a r m e r s ’ R i g h t s 3 I n d i a C a s e S t u d y – P r o t e c t i n g Y a n a d i H e a l e r s ’ R i g h t...

Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity*

Indigenous people number over 300 million. They are inhabitants of practically each main biome of the earth and especially of the least disturbed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world. Based on an exhaustive review of recently published data, this chapter stresses the strategic importance of indigenous peoples in the maintenance and conservation of world's biodiversity. Four main link...