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Michael Zika of Lauru Land Conference of Tribal Community (LLCTC) canoes from Chivoko (an ICCA) to Taro, the main settlement on the weather coast of Lauru, Solomon Islands– a journey of about 35km. Courtesy of James Hardcastle, 2007.
ICCAs
…territories of life…
ICCA Consortium
…a movement organisation…

A manifesto for territories of life

Our shared values, what we stand for, and what we ask ourselves and others to do

Learn more about the manifesto and how we developed it

The ICCA Consortium’s

2024 – 2028 Strategic Plan

The 2024-2028 Strategic Plan was developed throughout 2023 and approved as a ‘working version’ by the Council in October 2023. It is expected to be tabled for formal approval by the General Assembly in mid-2024.

Introduction to territories of life and the ICCA Consortium

  • Emblematic case of ICCA – Territories of life
    Tanabag Batak ICCA

    The ICCA of the Tanabag Batak tribe is located in the Municipality of Puerto Princesa – western Philippines, in one of the best-conserved forests and biological hot spots found in Palawan.

    Cover photo credit: Luigi Falorni

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  • Emblematic case of ICCA – Territories of life
    Guassa Community Conserved Area

    The Guassa area of Menz is found in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia and comprises a large expanse of Afro-alpine moorland at an altitude above 3200m…

    Cover photo credit: Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend

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  • Emblematic case of ICCA – Territories of life
    The forest of Mendha-Lekha

    Mendha-Lekha is situated in Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra State in India, famous for both its bio-diverse, dry deciduous forests as well as for the struggle of its tribal community towards self-rule.

    Cover photo credit: Mohan Hiralal

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  • Emblematic case of ICCA – Territories of life
    La Cordillera del Cóndor

    El pueblo Shuar Arutam, en la Cordillera del Cóndor es el primer pueblo de Ecuador que redactó su Plan de Vida, el cual rige la vida de este pueblo en armonía con su entorno natural amazónico y montañoso…

    Crédito de la foto: CGPSHA

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  • Emblematic case of ICCA – Territories of life
    Kawawana

    The fishermen of eight villages in Casamance (Senegal) established in 2009 their “community conserved area”. Kawawana (a djola acronym for: “our ancestral patrimony we all wish to conserve”) has today restored their environment and livelihoods…

    Cover photo credit: Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend

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  • Emblematic case of ICCA – Territories of life
    Coron Island

    The Tagbanwa people of Coron inhabit a stunningly beautiful limestone island for which they have established strict use regulations…

    Cover photo credit: Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend

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  • Emblematic case of ICCA – Territories of life
    Kishkor-Koohchir

    In Baluchistan (Iran), 15 tribes have united to govern together their territory and to conserve and document its unique natural and cultural diversity…

    Cover photo credit: Hanieh Moghani, Cenesta

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  • Emblematic case of ICCA – Territories of life
    The Commons of the Regole of the Ampezzo Valley

    The Regole of the Ampezzo Valley, an institution with a recorded history of nearly 1,000 years, still manages today the common property resources its members established centuries ago…

    Cover photo credit: Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend

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