Philippines: DENR Partners To Draw National Strategy To Sustain Conserved Areas Of Indigenous Peoples

Philippines: DENR Partners To Draw National Strategy To Sustain Conserved Areas Of Indigenous Peoples   The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) supports efforts of the country’s indigenous communities in conserving key biodiversity areas within their ancestral domains.   Dubbed as “Indigenous Community Conserved Areas” or ICCA, these include mountains, lakes, burial grounds, places of rituals, which the indigenous peoples hold sacred and important to their culture...

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