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guarantees to safeguard against recurring violations in subsequent conservation
projects in the same area. 42
VII. Good practices in promoting indigenous land tenure and
management, and benefit-sharing
58. The concept of indigenous and community conserved areas is defined by IUCN
as natural and/or modified ecosystems containing significant biodiversity values,
ecological benefits and cultural values that are voluntarily conserved by indigenous
peoples and local communities, both sedentary and mobile, through customary laws
or other effective means. 43 To qualify as an indigenous and community conserved
area, the people and the site must be closely interrelated, and the management of the
site must lead primarily to the conservation of biodiversity and culture. In 2016,
IUCN adopted a policy on recognizing and respecting indigenous and community
conserved areas that overlap with protected areas, in which it observed that
government-designated and privately protected areas often overlap with indigenous
and community conserved areas without appropriate recognition of or respect for
them. 44 Indigenous and community conserved areas exist in the Caribbean, Africa and
Latin America, and often outperform State-run protected areas.
59. In Peru, Federación Nativa del Río Madre de Dios y Afluentes, in coordination
with indigenous peoples and a State agency, is implementing “no contact” protection
plans through a network of surveillance checkpoints surrounding indigenou s peoples
living in voluntary isolation and initial contact, including points bordering the Madre
de Dios Territorial Reserve and the Manu and Alto Purús National Parks. The network
monitors threats to the territories of indigenous peoples living in volunt ary isolation
and initial contact, documents possible evidence of their presence and implements
measures to prevent forced contact and conflicts. 45
60. In Canada, Anishinaabe First Nations played a leading role in preparing the
nomination of Pimachiowin Aki to become a World Heritage site, providing
informational materials on the nomination process in the Anishanaabemowin or
Ojibwe language. The Bloodvein, Little Grand Rapids, Pauingassi and Polar River
First Nations, in collaboration with provincial gover nments, nominated the site to
protect their ancestral territories, continue community-led stewardship based on
Anishinaabe values and create new livelihoods. Included in the World Heritage List
in 2018, Pimachiowin Aki is protected and managed cooperatively by the four First
Nations and two provincial governments through a consensual, participatory
governance structure and management framework grounded in Anishinaabe
customary governance and provincial government law and policy. 46
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TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=23570; European Union External Action,
“EU suspends its support for Water Towers in view of reported human rights abuses”, 17 January
2018, available at www.eeas.europa.eu/node/38343_en; and World Bank Inspection Panel, “Kenya:
national resource management project”, available at www.inspectionpanel.org/panel-cases/naturalresource-management-project.
Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, Bio-cultural Diversity Conserved by Indigenous Peoples and Local
Communities: Examples and Analysis (Tehran, Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas
Consortium and Centre for Sustainable Development, 2010); and www.iccaconsortium.org/
index.php/discover/.
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Peru in 2022.
Submission by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs to the Special Rapporteur.
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