The authors of this article are Kabir Bavikatte and Harry Jonas (Natural Justice) and was originally published in Endogenous Development Magazine 6: ''Bio-cultural Community Protocols enforce Biodiversity Benefits'', pg 4-6. It can be found online at www.compasnet.org Natural Justice (Lawyers for Communities and the Environment) is an NGO working with indigenous peoples and local communities
Víctor M. Toledo, Eckart Boege and Narciso Barrera-Bassols Introduction Studies from different disciplinary backgrounds are revealing the inextricable links between cultural, biological and agricultural diversity at global, national, regional and local scales (Maffi, 2005). These multidimensional and complex relations are named ‘biocultural diversity’. In some way, these links represent the (biocultural) memory of the human
Project Contributors: Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek The Mbyá are one of the last surviving indigenous peoples of the Atlantic Rainforest in the Southeast of Brazil, known as Mata Atlântica, which once covered part of Paraguay, Uruguay, the North of Argentina and the whole coastal areas all the way to the