Sentences with phrase «associated cultural resources»

[25] The World Conservation Union (IUCN) defines a protected area as «an area of land or sea specially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biodiversity and associated cultural resources and management through legal and / or other effective means».

As defined by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a protected area is «an area of land and / or sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means.»

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Although not readily visible to the casual observer on Andros Island amid an abundance of natural resources including a wide range of beautiful flora and fauna species, fresh water springs, dense woodlands with chestnut and poplar trees along with a preserved cultural identity including the presence of ancient water mills surrounded by an azure blue sea, there are nevertheless some natural threats and threats from anthropogenic activities associated with the island's continuing growth that adversely impact the conservation status of the project's targeted species.

Dispossession and a loss of access to traditional lands, waters, and natural resources may be described as cultural genocide; a loss of ancestral, spiritual, totemic and language connections to lands and associated areas.»

Wendy Reynolds, Manager, Library Client Services, Legislative Library of Ontario, Helen Clarke, Associate Vice-Provost Collections, Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary, and Jeffrey Miller, President, Irwin Law spoke to attendees at a session titled «If eBooks are the Medium, What's the Message?».

Dispossession and a loss of access to traditional lands, waters, and natural resources may be described as cultural genocide; a loss of our ancestral, spiritual, totemic and language connections to lands and associated areas.

The Human Rights Committee, in relation to minority and Indigenous rights under ICCPR explained that countries joining ICCPR must take steps to protect those rights «With regard to the exercise of the cultural rights protected under article 27, the Committee observes that culture manifests itself in many forms, including a particular way of life associated with the use of land resources, especially in the case of Indigenous peoples... The enjoyment of those rights may require positive legal measures of protection», General Comment 23 The rights of minorities (8 April 1994) paragraph 7.

The Indigenous Nations of the Murray - Darling River Basin possess distinct cultural and customary rights and responsibilities including: a spiritual connection to the lands, waters and natural resources of the Basin; management of significant sites located along the river banks, on the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and ceremony.

With regard to cultural rights protected under [ICCPR] Article 27, the Committee observes that culture manifests itself in many forms, including a particular way of life associated with the use of land resources, especially in the case of indigenous peoples.

The Indigenous peoples of the Archer, Lockhart and Stewart River Basins possess distinct cultural and customary rights and responsibilities including: a spiritual connection to the lands, waters and natural resources of the rivers; management of significant sites located along the river banks, on and in the river beds, and sites and stories associated with the water and natural resources located in the rivers and their tributaries; protection of Indigenous cultural heritage and knowledge; accessing cultural activities such as hunting and fishing, and ceremony.

With regard to the exercise of the cultural rights protected under article 27, the Committee observes that culture manifests itself in many forms, including a particular way of life associated with the use of land resources, especially in the case of indigenous peoples.

[29] The Commission encourages the Government to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are able to access the opportunities they need to realise their social, cultural and economic aspirations associated with their lands, territories and resources.