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Indigenous Peoples and Conservation

Indigenous Peoples and Conservation Comments JANIS B. ALCORN Biodiversity Support Program % World Wildlife Fund 1250 24th Street NW Washington, D.C. 20037, U.S.A. A decade ago, U.S. and European-based conservation- Forest-dwelling peoples' organizations continue to ex- ists focused on supporting protected-areas strategies im- press concern about destruction of their forests. The plemented through state governments. Park depart- International Alliance of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples ments, with staff trained by academic centers that teach of the Tropical Forests issued The Forest Peoples Char- strategies based on protected areas, still espouse the ter in February 1992 (available from the World Rainfor- conservationists' goals and agenda described by Redford est Movement in the U.IC and Cultural Survival Ln the and Stearman. But, despite the confluence of those two U.SA.). The Charter sets out a conservation policy based agendas, park departments and other state agencies have on recognition of indigenous peoples' rights to conserve failed miserably at conserving biodiversity, globally and their forests and to regulate development activities cur- in Amazonia. Instead, paper parks abound, and defores- rently imposed upon them without their consent. It is tation rates have increased. While states have pleased the first such statement from a global network of forest- conservationists by announcing the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Conservation Biology Wiley

Indigenous Peoples and Conservation

Alcorn, Janis B.
Conservation Biology , Volume 7 (2) – Jun 1, 1993
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0888-8892
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1523-1739
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Comments JANIS B. ALCORN Biodiversity Support Program % World Wildlife Fund 1250 24th Street NW Washington, D.C. 20037, U.S.A. A decade ago, U.S. and European-based conservation- Forest-dwelling peoples' organizations continue to ex- ists focused on supporting protected-areas strategies im- press concern about destruction of their forests. The plemented through state governments. Park depart- International Alliance of the Indigenous-Tribal Peoples ments, with staff trained by academic centers that teach of the Tropical Forests issued The Forest Peoples Char- strategies based on protected areas, still espouse the ter in February 1992 (available from the World Rainfor- conservationists' goals and agenda described by Redford est Movement in the U.IC and Cultural Survival Ln the and Stearman. But, despite the confluence of those two U.SA.). The Charter sets out a conservation policy based agendas, park departments and other state agencies have on recognition of indigenous peoples' rights to conserve failed miserably at conserving biodiversity, globally and their forests and to regulate development activities cur- in Amazonia. Instead, paper parks abound, and defores- rently imposed upon them without their consent. It is tation rates have increased. While states have pleased the first such statement from a global network of forest- conservationists by announcing the

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Published: Jun 1, 1993

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