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Conservation Partnerships 17 linked to conflicts of interest among a variety of stakeholders, including governments, businesses, and other local groups. In these situations, indigenous peoples frequently lack the power to be included in the decision-making process from the beginning, and lack access to the information, expertise, and funding needed to define, articulate, and defend their interests through public advocacy campaigns. Conservation groups can play a role in providing support to indigenous peoples to help even the playing field. In doing so, it is important to partner with other organizations experienced in environmental brokerage to ensure that the best possible expertise is brought to bear in finding fair solutions from both the environmental and social points of view. The objective is twofold: to make sure that indigenous peoples are recognized as legitimate stakeholders and to help them develop the institutional capacity to become effective stakeholders able to exercise their rights and responsibilities as stewards of their lands and resources. Endnotes 1. According to Article 1 of the Convention, it “applies to (a) tribal peoples in independent countries whose social, cultural and economic conditions distinguish them from other sections of the national community, and whose status is regulated wholly or in partially by their own customs or traditions or by special laws or regulations; (b) peoples in independent countries who are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country, or a geographical region to which the country belongs, at the time of conquest or colonisation or the establishment of present state boundaries and who, irrespective of their legal status, retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions.” It adds that “self-identification as indigenous or tribal shall be regarded as a fundamental criterion for determining the groups to which the provisions of this Convention apply.” 2. The exceptions are represented by the following ecoregions: Caribbean (WWF ecoregion #s 5, 65), where the indigenous populations were wiped out soon after the arrival of the Spaniards; coastal Venezuela (#4), where no ethnolinguistic groups appear to fall within the boundaries of the ecoregion; Galápagos Islands (#123), where human settlements were only established in 1912; and Fynbos (#134), where the situation corresponds to that in coastal Venezuela. 3. The number of languages in the world (excluding for present purposes, sign languages, creoles, pidgins, and Romany/“gypsy” languages) can be calculated as 6,611 of the 6,703 cited in Ethnologue. As table 3 shows, however, there are more than 6,611 ethnolinguistic groups. Ethnologue lists 256 groups who speak the same language as one or more of their neighbors, but differentiate themselves by the use of distinct ethnic names. Since the present mapping project focuses on ethnolinguistic groups, not just languages, and thus takes ethnic criteria into account, these 256 ethnic groups were included in calculating the world’s total number of EGs (6,611 + 256 = 6,867). For the same reason, the world total also includes ethnic groups who still maintain their distinct culture even though their ancestral language is, or is thought to be, extinct. As far as possible, duplicate entries of EGs across ecoregions were eliminated from the calculations.
18 Conservation Partnerships References Amend, Stephan and Thora. 1992. Espacios sin Habitantes? Parques Nacionales de America del Sur. Caracas: The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and Editorial Nueva Sociedad. Durning, A. T. 1992. Guardians of the Land: Indigenous Peoples and the Health of the Earth. Worldwatch Paper No. 112. Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Intstitute. Four Directions Council. 1996. Forests, Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity: Contribution of the Four Directions Council. Draft paper submitted to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity, Montreal. Gomez-Pompa, A., and A. Kaus. 1992. Taming the Wilderness Myth. BioScience 42:271–279. Hitchcock, Robert K. 1994. Endangered Peoples: Indigenous Rights and the Environment. Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 5 (1):11. International Labour Organization (ILO). 1998. Indigenous and Tribal Peoples: A Guide to ILO Convention No. 169. Geneva: ILO. IUCN–Inter-Commission Task Force on Indigenous Peoples. 1997. Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability, Cases and Actions. Utrecht: International Books and IUCN-The World Conservation Union. Maffi, Luisa. 1999. Language and Diversity. In Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity, Darrell Posey, ed. London: Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd./UNEP, 1999. United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). 1992. Agenda 21. Rio de Janeiro: UNCED.
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