Protecting and encouraging customary use of biological resources: The Upper Caura, Venezuela - 10(c) Case Study
Article 10(c) of the CBD requires States to protect and encourage customary use of biological resources. This study of and by the indigenous Ye'kwana and Sanema peoples of the Upper Caura, Venezuela, demonstrates that their traditional practices are clearly ‘compatible with conservation and sustainable use’. Encouragingly, the legal framework for State compliance already exists and merely needs to be put into practice.
Overview
- Resource Type:
- Reports
- Publication date:
- 12 January 2004
- Programmes:
- Territorial Governance Culture and Knowledge Conservation and human rights
- Translations:
- Spanish: Protegiendo y Fomentando el Uso Consuetudinario de los Recursos Biológicos en el Alto Caura