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Resolution 30: Indigenous people, climate change, sacred sites and protecting the wild/Resolución sobre los pueblos indígenas, el cambio climático, los lugares sagrados y la protección de las tierras silvestres

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Whereas:

Climate change amplifies impacts on indigenous people and the ecosystems on which they depend, we support the sovereignty of indigenous tribes and communities which must be acknowledged in developing initiatives to expand wilderness and connectivity for people, flora and fauna and protect critical resources like water by protecting sacred peaks and critical surrounding. Also indigenous people, wild ecosystems and wildlife suffer negative impacts including fragmentation when they are split by borders.

Therefore:

This resolution supports ideas messages conveyed at Wild 9 about international parks and wilderness areas along borders such as the border between the USA and Mexico to ensure the survival of cultures wildlife and water. Since traditional ecological knowledge is embedded in traditional religion and practices and contributes to the mitigation and adaption of climate change

Now therefore the 9th World Wilderness Congress resolves to call for action to support the position that consultation, participatory decision making, cooperation and co-management with indigenous peoples is essential and that public, private and non-profit sectors need to develop protocols for working with tribes and indigenous communities in their decision making processes.

Proposer: Dr Linda Moon Stumpff:

The evergreen State College, Director of the Tribal Governance Programme

Seconders: Peg Putt

The Wilderness Society Australia

Alan Watson

The Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Montana

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