This website, and IUCN activity, focuses on the Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas (CSVPA), but what do you know about Protected Areas (PA)? Better insight into what PAs... read more →
A new article has been published in Science, focusing on protected areas connectivity. It does not seem to include cultural and spiritual aspects of connectivity - is this an omission?... read more →
PARKS has a call For Expression Of Interest (EOI) to submit Case Studies to s Special Issue Of PARKS on ‘Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures’. In the context of the... read more →
From June 11 to 16 of this year the International Nature Conservation Academy of the German Federal Ministry for Nature Conservation (BfN) again hosted a very productive workshop on the... read more →
CSVPA interested people may wish to be aware of this development: the Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group of the Society for Conservation Biology has handed out an Assisi Award.... read more →
CSVPA visitors may be interested in the news that an Interfaith Rainforest Initiative was launched in Oslo, Norway, on 19 June 2017. In a first-of-its-kind summit, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and... read more →
The 9th World Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) will be held in Shenzhen, China 11-15 December 2017. The overarching theme this year will be “Ecosystem Services for Eco-civilisation:... read more →
From Brazil we share a recent publication of the article entitled Sítios Naturais Sagrados: valores ancestrais e novos desafios para as políticas de proteção da natureza. The article is based on... read more →
The latest issue of PARKS (the International Journal of Protected Areas and Conservation) has just been released and can be downloaded here. This... read more →
Culture and spirituality are among the strongest personal drives and motivators for nature conservation yet they are not often taken into account in the governance and management of protected areas.... read more →
