Territories Under Pressure: What Sustains Sociobiodiversity? Indigenous and Quilombola Strategies across Brazil’s Cerrado, Caatinga and Pantanal
Location: Small Room
Organizers: International Institute of Education of Brazil (IEB)
How Indigenous and Quilombola strategies, rooted in their ways of life, sustain territories under pressure across Brazil’s Cerrado, Caatinga and Pantanal and contribute to implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework.
“The Cerrado, Caatinga and Pantanal encompass highly biodiverse Indigenous and Quilombola territories facing land, environmental, climate, social and racial pressures. Their conservation is directly connected to how these peoples live in, manage and govern their territories.
Drawing on Terena, Tremembé and Kalunga experiences, the session will present strategies involving territorial management, restoration, traditional knowledge, agroecology, community-based tourism and socio-biodiversity economies that strengthen territories and ways of life.
The dialogue will explore what these experiences can teach us about community-led conservation and their concrete contribution to implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework.”