Participatory Video: a Tool for Promoting Biocultural Diversity and Community Conservation at WCC
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The Global Diversity Foundation (www.globaldiversity.org.uk), in collaboration with Insight (www.insightshare.org), proposes a series of short participatory videos as a WCC Conservation Cinema event. We will relate how greater exposure and training in participatory video (PV) can play an integral role in bringing ethnoecology methods, traditional knowledge, and community led conservation practices to the forefront of world conservation policy. The videos portray specific examples of communities that are seeking to maintain their cultural integrity and relationship to the environment, while engaged with community or government conserved areas.
The mini-festival will demonstrate how PV can be an important community conservation tool. It will exemplify how to place a ‘communication interface’ in the hands of local stewards of biocultural diversity through which they can transfer and receive knowledge. The screenings will show diverse ways in which PV allows local people to exchange information with the scientific community, assert their traditional rights, provide evidence of responsible stewardship across and between generations, build bridges with other stakeholders, and affect policy making.
The PV mini-festival will bring together three videos from Africa, Asia and Latin America, all directed and filmed by indigenous community members: (1) ‘Participatory Video from the Batwa of Kisoro and Kabale Districts” was created to raise awareness among Ugandan policy makers and the world at large of the plight of the Batwa people since their forced eviction from their ancestral hunting grounds around Bwindi and Mgahinga National Parks (Uganda); (2) ‘A Community in Dilemma’ documents the response of Dusun communities to the creation of community use zones in Crocker Range Park in Sabah Malaysia; and (3) ‘Community Conserved Areas in the Chinantla’ portrays the efforts of six Chinantec communities to protect over 26,000 hectares of cloud forest in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico. Special 15 minute versions of these videos, all filmed between 2006 and 2008, will be edited by Insight for the WCC.
The mini-festival will demonstrate how PV can be an important community conservation tool. It will exemplify how to place a ‘communication interface’ in the hands of local stewards of biocultural diversity through which they can transfer and receive knowledge. The screenings will show diverse ways in which PV allows local people to exchange information with the scientific community, assert their traditional rights, provide evidence of responsible stewardship across and between generations, build bridges with other stakeholders, and affect policy making.
The PV mini-festival will bring together three videos from Africa, Asia and Latin America, all directed and filmed by indigenous community members: (1) ‘Participatory Video from the Batwa of Kisoro and Kabale Districts” was created to raise awareness among Ugandan policy makers and the world at large of the plight of the Batwa people since their forced eviction from their ancestral hunting grounds around Bwindi and Mgahinga National Parks (Uganda); (2) ‘A Community in Dilemma’ documents the response of Dusun communities to the creation of community use zones in Crocker Range Park in Sabah Malaysia; and (3) ‘Community Conserved Areas in the Chinantla’ portrays the efforts of six Chinantec communities to protect over 26,000 hectares of cloud forest in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, Mexico. Special 15 minute versions of these videos, all filmed between 2006 and 2008, will be edited by Insight for the WCC.
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