Highlights from Asia & the Pacific - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ban Udyam (BU) - Nepal Biodiversity Conservation Prioritization Project (BCPP) KEMALA Peoples, Forests and Reefs (PeFoR) - global

BSP's Asia & Pacific Program

People, Forests, and Reefs

Building capacity for local management of forests and coral reefs worldwide.

People, Forests, and Reefs (PeFoR) focused on biologically diverse areas where traditional ethnic identities and institutions were still strong. By working with indigenous peoples to manage biodiversity, PeFoR supported the rights of indigenous peoples and promoted sustainable economic and social development. In critical regions throughout the world, PeFoR promoted low-cost mapping technologies in response to requests for assistance in mapping community lands. PeFoR offered technical assistance to indigenous resource managers, strengthened indigenous peoples' capacity to communicate effectively with government agencies, and supported appropriate policy reforms. Lessons learned were shared with hundreds of NGOs and indigenous peoples' organizations through apprenticeship programs, workshops, and publications.

 

Related Web sites

Networking

• Arctic Circle - http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu
• Avenir des Peuples des Forêts (APFT) - http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/rainforest.html
• Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS): Fourth World
  Documentation Project - http://www.cwis.org
• Indigenous Environmental Network - http://www.alphacdc.com/ien/
• Indigenous Knowledge (Nuffic-CIRAN) – http://www.nuffic.nl/ciran/ik.html
• Indigenous Peoples - http://www.ldb.org/indigen.htm
• Indigenous Peoples Biodiversity Information Network - http://www.ibin.org/
• Indigenous Peoples of the World
• NativeNet - http://niikaan.fdl.cc.mn.us/natnet/
• NativeWeb - http://www.nativeweb.org/
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire - http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) - http://www.unpo.org/
• World Area Studies Internet Resources - http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/area.html
• World Rainforest Movement - http://www.wrm.org.uy/index.html
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies - http://www.cwis.org/wwwvl/indig-vl.html

Rights and Governance

• Center for World Indigenous Studies - http://www.cwis.org
• Indigenous Peoples - http://www.law.ecel.uwa.edu.au/intlaw/indigenous_people.htm
• Indigenous Peoples’ Center for Documentation, Research and Information (doCIP) - http://www.docip.org/anglais/welcome.html
• Indigenous Peoples Project - http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/indig
• International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) - http://www.indiana.edu/~iascp
• Traditional Resource Rights (TRR) - http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wgtrr/
• United Nations Home Page - http://www.un.org
• U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Forests - http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/iff.htm

Education & Culture Support

• Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agriculture and Rural Development (CIKARD) - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~anthr_info/cikard/
• Education Development Center, Inc. - http://www.edc.org/
• Indigenous Education WorldWide (by the Alaska Knowledge Network) - http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/IEWW.html

Development

• African Development Bank Group - http://www.afdb.org/
• Asian Development Bank - http://www.asiandevbank.org/
• Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) - http://www.cgiar.org/CIFOR/
• Economics of Biodiversity - http://economics.iucn.org
• Forest, Trees and Peoples Programme & Network - http://www-trees.slu.se/
• Inter-American Development Bank - http://www.iadb.org/
• The Institute of Environmental Research for Amazônia (IPAM) - http://www.ipam.org.br/
• International Institute for Environmental Development (IIED) - http://www.iied.org
• Oxfam America - http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
• Royal Danish Embassy Policy on the Environment - http://www.denmarkemb.org/miljo95.htm
• United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) - http://www.unrisd.org/
• U.S. Agency for International Development - http://www.info.usaid.gov
• The World Bank Group - http://www.worldbank.org

Mapping

• Aboriginal Mapping Network - http://www.nativemaps.org/
• Clark Labs - http://www.clarklabs.org/
• Mapping for Nature Conservation - http://www.ecnc.nl/doc/servers/mapping.html
• Western Connecticut State University List: Geography Internet Resource - http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/socialsci/area.html

Biodiversity

• American Museum of Natural History - http://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/index.html
• Biodiversity and WORLDMAP - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/worldmap/
• The Biodiversity Center - http://www.defenders.org/bio-cont.html
• Biodiversity Conservation Information System - http://www.biodiversity.org/
• Biodiversity Conservation Network - http://www.bcnet.org
• Biodiversity Information Network - http://www.bdt.org.br/bin21/bin21.html
• Biodiversity Program for the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) - http://www.nmnh.si.edu
• Convention on Biological Diversity - http://www.biodiv.org/
• Environment Australia - Biodiversity Group - http://www.biodiversity.environment.gov.au/
• GAIA Forest Conservation Archives - http://forests.org/
• Global Biodiversity Forum - http://www.wri.org/wri/wri/biodiv/gbf/
• Global Environment Facility - http://www.gefweb.org
• Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (U.S.) - http://www.nbii.gov/iabin/
• Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (International) - http://www.iabin.org
• Peoples & Plants Online - http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/peopleplants/
• The Woods Hole Research Center - http://www.whrc.org/
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre - http://www.wcmc.org.uk/
• The World Conservation Union - http://www.iucn.org/
• World Resources Institute (WRI) - http://www.wri.org/wri/biodiv/