Reports and Documents

Global Pastoral Programme (GPP)

A formulation workshop in conjunction with the Global Pastoral Programme http://www.undp.org/drylands/gov-pastoralism.htm was held in Nairobi, Kenya (from 19-23 April) to design a partnership and programme to build momentum for greater recognition of the need for sustainable pastoral development. For more information please contact Camillo Ponziani This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Proceedings of the GPP Workshop in Nairobi

7th Conference of Parties (COP 7) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) http://www.biodiv.org/meetings/cop-07/

Report of WAMIP Second General Meeting Malaysia, February 2004

COP 7 WAMIP Press Release

Statement of Mobile Indigenous Peoples to the COP 7

5th World Parks Congress

Uncle Sayyaad's Speech to the Plenary of the WPC
With assistance from IUCN-CEESP, an Elder from the Kuhi sub-tribe of the Qashqai Nomadic Pastoralist Confederation of Iran attended the 5th World
Parks Congress (WPC) in Durban, South Africa, September 2003 http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/wpc2003/. During the opening plenary, while representing all mobile indigenous peoples, he delivered a very powerful and moving speech to the Congress. The speech, in addition to the hard work of the mobile indigenous peoples at the WPC, resulted in a set of recommendations (recommendation 5.27 http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/wpc2003/pdfs/outputs/recommendations/ approved/english/pdf/r27.pdf), entitled "Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas", which include ten points, to be adopted by the World Parks Congress. This was the very first time mobile indigenous peoples gathered in an international forum where their voices were heard.

World Parks Congress WAMIP Press Release

World Parks Congress report of Mobile Peoples and Conservation Workshop