Decolonizing nature conservation according to natural law
Learning from the Kogui
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2389512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aili Pyhälä (0000-0001-7095-5994, University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 484-493 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1177-1801 • E-ISSN: 1174-1740 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/11771801241255697 |
| OpenAlex | W4399085996 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
With rising concerns over the failed outcomes of global conservation strategies and the militarization of environmental monitoring and enforcement, there is an urgent need for decolonizing nature conservation. This article examines the position of Indigenous peoples as rights-and-knowledge-holders in this discourse and the vital role they play in biodiversity conservation globally. I present a 2018 case study of the Kogui Indigenous peoples of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, one of the last remaining examples of a sustainable biocultural system. My results demonstrate that the success of the Kogui is largely defined by their: (a) nature-based cosmovision, (b) strong cultural identity related to that cosmovision, and (c) functioning governance system ordered by Natural Law. These findings stand as beacons to reframe the nature conservation paradigm and help humanity re-find and re-connect with our place in, and relationship with, both the material and non-material worlds
Archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Natural law · Political science · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Law · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Conservation Refugees
Effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing habitat loss and population declines
Decolonising Conservation Policy
A global assessment of the social and conservation outcomes of protected areas
Working together
Community managed forests and forest protected areas
Conflict transformation in indigenous peoples’ territories
Governance for the Conservation of Nature
Conservation as if People Also Mattered
A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation
Unintended multispecies co-benefits of an Amazonian community-based conservation programme
Territories of life as key to global environmental sustainability
Cornered by PAs
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda
Decolonial conservation
Towards a Synthesized Critique of Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation
Scale, networks, and information strategies
Unseen sentinels
Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples And Local Communities
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