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IUCN Launches book in Spanish and Russian

News from Bas VeIUCN launches Spanish and Russian versions of its Sacred Natural Sites: Guidelines for Protected Area Managers – a landmark publication to support the protection of sacred places around the world. The the Spanish version will be presented the Tuesday the 10th at 16:00 (café session 1) at the Ninth World Wilderness Congress (WILD9, www.wild9.org) which started last week in Merida, Mexico. The Russian version was launched at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting on the protection of traditional knowledge (www.cbd.int/doc/?meeting=WG8J-06) which ended last week in Montreal, Canada.  Read the full press-release inENGLISH andSPANISH.

The publications have been produced by IUCN’s World Commission of Protected Areas Specialist Group on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas (CSVPA), a group of experts of the World Commission on Protected Areas. The first edition in English was prepared in collaboration with UNESCO and launched at IUCN’s World Conservation Congress in 2008.

Natural areas that are held sacred by people are found all across the Earth, and many of them contain high natural values. They have been preserved by traditional communities as precious places of land and water that have particular significance to their cultures. The book helps conservation professionals and the custodians of sacred sites interested in the role of cultural and spiritual values in nature conservation to ensure the long-term survival of such valuable sites.

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