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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Protected</strong> <strong>Landscape</strong> <strong>Approach</strong>: Linking Nature, Culture and Community<br />

Indigenous village in the Sierra<br />

Nevada de Santa Marta<br />

(Colombia), a Biosphere<br />

Reserve. For the indigenous<br />

communities living in the area,<br />

the Sierra Nevada is a sacred<br />

mountain, “the heart of the<br />

world”, and their ancestral<br />

practices are key to managing<br />

the area’s landscape. Ricardo<br />

Rey-Cervantes/Fundacion Pro<br />

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta<br />

<strong>The</strong> Sacred Valley of the Incas in southern Peru is a<br />

micro-centre of origin <strong>for</strong> potatoes, where more than<br />

2,300 cultivars of potatoes are grown. El Parque de<br />

la Papa (Potato Park) has been created by Quechua<br />

communities seeking to maintain their cultural<br />

landscape. Jessica Brown<br />

Video technology helps Quechua residents of this<br />

community-conserved area to record the diversity of<br />

cultivars. <strong>The</strong> project is adapting traditional knowledge<br />

and management practices into comprehensive and sui<br />

generis plans <strong>for</strong> the conservation of Andean biodiversity<br />

and ecosystems. Alejandro Argumedo<br />

Plate 10

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