Biocultural Diversity Working Group
Biocultural Diversity
Professionals and community members involved in biocultural diversity work will find a place to share experiences, text and multimedia resources, as well as a space to share thoughts and dialog through online forums.
GROUP DETAILS
Created: Sep 02, 2008
Updated: Nov 18, 2009
Membership: Open To Apply
Semi-Private
Topic: Introduce yourself to the group by posting here
Posts (1 - 12 of 12)
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Flag comment for removal Nduarte about 1 year ago
Tell us why are you interested in Biocultural
Diversity and share your experiences and background.
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It is my pleasure to be accepted into this little group. I believe that our organizations do and have worked together from time to time. I have come to terralingua, as an artist, with a passion for ethnobotany. I am a parent, and we try to grow as much of our own food as possible. I am especially intrested in wild crafted fibre for weaving and basketry. Terralingua, has some very exciting projects that we are preparing to introduce to the public, biocultural diversity indicators and resources. It was suggested to us by the The Christensen Fund that we engage in this network. One of my tasks here is to look into what the wiki is about, and learn more about the networking forums, such as ISE. I look forward to working with you, ortixia.
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To me the notion of biocultural diversity and its tangible exitence brings humans and human communities back into its rightous place within the conservation and evironmental agenda and work. It humanises Nature, and brings back nature to its rightous place withing the conservation and environmental agenda and work. Humans are Nature, and human actions fall into nature's actions. Human cultures are nature, and as such nurture natural diversity. All is nature - B. Spinoza dixit and of course many more.
We work (GDF Mesoamerica) in Mexico with 6 Chinantec communities that have declared a portion of their territory, community conservation areas (indigenous and community conserved areas - IUCN). Our common project's objective is to build local capacity to manage natural resources.
I was also suggested to explore WE's network resources by the TCF.
This group is intended as a space to keep/start working together ortixia ;) and maybe meet new colleagues and organizations moved by a common interest through out the world.
nice meeting you.
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Currently a consultant, I've been working in biodiversity conservation for seven years (TNC and Island Conservation) and am on the board of Rare - a non-profit that builds conservation constituencies through social marketing approaches. It's very clear to me that local people create and sustain conservation. The more the local population is connected to place and understands its ecology and limits the more likely conservation has a chance of success - this is nowhere more true than with indigenous groups who have secured tenure rights. I look forward to learning more from this network to apply to my work going forward.
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Greetings!
My name is Jeanette (Eagle Keeper).
I thank you for welcoming me into your group. I am a permaculture designer. I love and live ethnobotany thanks to my parents (who were traditional medicine spiritual healers/leaders.) I am a Level 2 Kundalini Yoga teacher, and help to train students to become teachers of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, Ph.D. I work with indigenous nations across the globe and consult them about cultural and environmental/ecological sustainability.
My family has an event at the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific this weekend, 20-21 SEPT 2008. Here are the details: ALL ARE WELCOME TO THIS EVENT!!
MoompetamCelebrating Coastal Native Americans
Join us for our annual Native American festival, Moompetam: Gathering of the Salt Water People, a celebration of indigenous California Indian maritime cultures, including Ajachemem, Chumash, Costanoan, Luiseño, and Tongva. Moompetam, which means “of the Ocean” in Tongva, will feature traditional song and dance, craft demonstrations, educational programs, and storytelling. This weekend celebration will feature traditional cultural crafts, storytelling and other educational programs, and live demonstrations, including music and dance celebrating the indigenous California Indian maritime cultures, including Ajachemen, Chumash, Costanoan, Luiseno, and Tongva peoples.
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Hi, My name is Jessica Morrissey. I am in my final year of studying a degree in herbal medicine, I am really interested in traditional medicine and knowledge systems. I hope to go on to study ethnobotany as it fascinates me. Thank you for welcoming me to this group.
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Greetings and thank you for welcoming me into this group.
Most of my paying work over the past fourty years has been in the built- and technology-centered environments, although when possible I tried to steer people toward embracing appropriate technology. The area I was most able to do that in was Appalachia where economic constraints left people with few other viable choices.
About twenty years ago I became involved with beekeeping and heirloom organic gardening, as well as body-mind approaches to healing in order to deal with challenges that that could not be realistically dealt with otherwise. This shift in my perspective has opened up whole new worlds of intrigue and learning for me, and I have been attempting to educate people about biomimicry, ecoliteracy and living in balance with the natural world ever since.
I would like to collaborate and cooperate with like-minded people, appreciate the resources this group offers, and hope I can make some contributions that will be of benefit.
jp
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I was intrigued by the phrase "biocultural diversity". Biological, yes. Cultural, yes. Biocultural?.... Upon further reading, discovered how diversity in one nurtures diversity in the other. It's gonna be a phrase I'll be using more as it is so simple, yet so deep in meaning and implications.
By now, you'll realize my love of words and language. I also love to play with ideas. Aspiring to reach the limbo plane between a specialist and a generalist, I love to learn the many subjects intricably linked as an attempt to understand how humans, nature and the world works. Hope to write a book someday.
I now serve as Chief Editor for WiserEarth, and it's a real pleasure to see this group up and running to share, converse and collaborate in advancing the cause: united in biocultural diversity!
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Dear all,
I'm new to WiserEarth and delighted to be part of this group.
I'm looking for new ways to enhance public awareness on such global issues as biocultural diversity, biodiversity crisis and climate change, among others.
Hope to share more with you!
Felix www.globaia.org |
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Biocultural diversity is a phrase I often use. I'm an academic ethnobiologist and anthropologist who teaches ethnobiology at a distance university based in Canada. Since I took plant taxonomy from John Thomas at Stanford University in 1971, I have been asking "can you eat it?" "How do you use this?" Where does it grow?" After a lengthy digression living on the Land, so to speak, in northwestern British Columbia, learning about big gardens, buying grass fed meat fron neighbours and eating Skeena River salmon and wild meat when people shared it, I went back to university and earned an MA and PhD in ethnobotany [in an Anthropology department] and now try to share my respect and enthusiasm for local knowledge and foodways with students (and anyone else who will listen). I'm fascinated by what one needs to know to live in a place, and have great respect for the traditional knowledge holders with whom I have worked. I find the vision of Box Stores and fast food outlets depressing and bleakly homogenizing. In Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where I live, there is a vibrant farmer's market which does preserve local varieties of many things, and that's where I do a lot of my grocery shopping. Sadly, I realize that I can afford to shop at the Farmer's Market and local organic food market because I have the economic resources to do so. It is quite saddening to realize that eating well, and promoting planetary health, is an option beyond the reach of many.
I'm not precisely sure what we are all intending to do here on this site....but nice to connect with fellow travellers. Leslie |
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Although 99% of our displays consist of artefacts made with plants, about 98% have no information about the source materials. The Bio aspect of Culture tends to be taken for granted in the anthropological world. Cultural diversity is the main focus of the displays (which are vast, in galleries that span the globe) - but there are only hints about the biocultural diversity, here and there - and everywhere. The forest is thick and we cannot see the trees.
The logo displayed above comes from a website I have created called The Research Cooperative. This gives researchers in all social and economic circumstances a new kind of access to help for getting their work published - it is a loosely knit Cooperative of people involved in research communication, and can potentially include communities or representatives of people who work with researchers. It also allows, for example, a young rersearcher in Indonesia to offer help to another young researcher in Thailand, without necessarily involving any monetary payment.
My own interest in Biocultural Diversity is very strong, and I would like to write about this more as time permits. |
Hello, thanks for setting this up. I am an ethnobotanist based in a multilingual research institution, the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan.
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Diversity is a principle of all resilient systems -- social, ecological, or otherwise. It is a common perception that humans are somehow different, so recognizing the value of diversity in culture is particularly important, reminding us that it's not just biodiversity that should be the goal. In our community development work, we (Indigenous Permaculture) see the real power in recognizing our interconnectedness, and that our agro-ecological systems require this biocultural diversity for true health. More is at (http:www.indigenous-permaculture.com), |