Community of Practice Indigenous Conservation Standards Projects
News Stories
🌟 End of year get-together: Retrospective 2024 - and Outlook 2025 🌟
With 2024 coming to an end, the CoP Indigenous CS Projects came together with its community to look back on 2024 and introduce an exciting new project the CoP Indigenous CS Projects is embarking on in 2025—the development of guidance and training materials to examine the Conservation Standards through an Indigenous lens.
Find HERE a recording of the webinar and workshop session on our YouTube channel. You can find a write-up of the workshop input HERE.
CoP Indigenous CS Projects - YouTube Channel
To help us keep connected and better share and learn from each other, the CoP Indigenous CS Projects has set up its own YouTube Channel where we are posting our webinars. You can find on our channel our webinars from 2023 - while we are already preparing our webinars for 2024, where we will showcase how the CS have been used around the world with Indigenous People and Local Communities. If there is a topic that you would like us to cover in a webinar - please get in touch with us via EMAIL.
Expression of Interest - CoP Coordinating Committee
Get involved! The CoP Indigenous CS Projects is seeking volunteers to join the CoP Indigenous CS Projects Coordinating Committee. The Community of Practice is part of the Conservation Coaches Network (CCNet) and its mission is to support Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) by increasing access to relevant adaptations of the Conservation Standards, to foster community-led conservation initiatives on IPLC territories.
To expand our representation, we seek:
two new representatives from Pacific Island nations to represent Oceania.
For a more detailed description of the roles and to express your interest, please refer to the Expression of Interest and submit a short EOI addressing the criteria to CopIndigenousCSProjects@gmail.com by Friday, February 16th, 2024. Since the CoP Indigenous CS Projects focus on work with IPLCs, we prioritise expressions of interest from IPLCs.
CoP Indigenous CS Projects Newsletter - Review of 2023
As we were wrapping up with 2023, we captured some of the news of our Community of Practice in a newsletter update. If you are interested in finding out what all happened in 2023, please find the PDF HERE. If you would like to contribute to future newsletters, please contact copindigenousCSprojects@gmail.com
ADAPTATIONS OF THE CS FLYER & COP INDIGENOUS CS FLYER
In an attempt to improve our communications, the CoP Indigenous CS Projects produced two new brochures - and to make our work more accessible the documents are available in 5 languages (Bahasa, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish).
Flyer: Adaptations of the Conservation Standards - Bahasa - English - French - Portuguese - Spanish
Flyer: Community of Practice Indigenous CS Projects - Bahasa - English - French - Portuguese - Spanish
Where our Community of Practice operates
This map shows projects that use the Conservation Standards (CS) and adaptations of the CS with Indigenous People and Local Communities (IPLC). If you would like your CS project with IPLC included in this map please fill out this form and send it to copindigenouscsprojects@gmail.com.
Hover with your mouse over the icons on the map and learn about the different projects.
Adaptations of the CS - Healthy Country Planning
Healthy Country Planning (HCP) is a participatory process being used by Indigenous communities for land and water planning and management.
Adaptations of the CS - Malama Ke Kai Action Guide
A step-by-step guide for community management
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
The CoP Indigenous CS Projects Discussion Forum
We have a discussion forum, the CCNet Indigenous Projects ListServ, for practitioners who are part of CCNet’s Community of Practice: Conservation Standards Projects with Indigenous Communities. This forum reaches across national, cultural, and organizational boundaries to enable Indigenous Groups and conservation practitioners who collaborate in Indigenous CS Projects to share experiences, useful tools, and opportunities relating to their application of the Conservation Standards and adaptations such as Healthy Country Planning. Topics in this group relate to the practice of conservation and sustainable development in projects managed by and/or where resources are owned by Indigenous Communities.
To join this discussion forum, please send us a message and briefly sharing your experience using the Conservation Standards, Healthy Country Planning or related planning approaches with IPLC projects or with IPLC partners.
The forum started in May of 2019. If you are a subscriber, you can view the full archive.