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Friends for Life: New partners in support of protected areas
Lake Niassa, Mozambique.
© Chico Carneiro
Human rights and sharing of costs and
benefits
Policies
● Respect and recognise customary ownership, use
and access rights for local, indigenous and
traditional people in protected area establishment
and management.
● Incorporate traditional knowledge into protected
area management.
● Incorporate mechanisms to reward environmental
stewardships, including payments for
environmental services, as part of management
strategies for protected areas.
● Include mechanisms to compensate for losses
incurred as part of establishment and
management of protected areas.
Actions
■ Promote the implementation of indigenous and
traditional peoples and protected area guidelines,
and monitor and assess their implementation.
■ Provide secure tenure for local and indigenous
communities, particularly in areas essential for
livelihood resources and cultural identity.
■ Continue to understand and apply traditional
knowledge to protected area management.
■ Document and acknowledge communities’ own
efforts to manage protected areas.
■ Promote the notion that, beyond state-owned
protected areas, community conserved areas
(CCAs) are important efforts to conserve
biodiversity and that a wider concept of protected
areas should prevail.
■ Develop, strengthen and promote the adoption of
legislation and policies that create the conditions
for recognising and respecting indigenous and
traditional knowledge in protected area
management.
■ Continue to develop and apply mechanisms to
provide fair compensation for losses incurred by
local and indigenous communities as a result of
restricted access to protected areas and from
displacement and decreased environmental
services.
■ Continue to develop and apply mechanisms for
equitable distribution of benefits from protected
areas.
■ Document and assess the effectiveness of
mechanisms to provide for compensation and to
reward stewardship.
■ Ensure informed consent for equitable
compensation for any resource use restrictions,
total displacement and for equitable benefit
sharing.
■ Develop more comprehensive costs and benefit
analyses for protected areas.
■ Extend the principle of equitable sharing of
benefits to include all components of biological
diversity within the Convention on Biological
Diversity.
■ Develop, strengthen and promote the adoption of
legislation and policies that create the conditions
for fair reward for stewardship and compensation
for loss of access rights.
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