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The Participatory Video organisation - Insight, are working with the Global Diversity Foundation to develop PV as a tool to support community-led conservation initiatives, build bridges and resolve conflict between stakeholders, and share successful models. Through this process, educational resources are being created to be offered through face-to-face courses and online.


Video Participativo en comunidades indigenas de la Chinantla. Oaxaca, México.: (click image to see video)(click image to see video)Participatory Video training and workshops have been held in February 2008 with the Chinantec indigenous people in Oaxaca, Mexico, who are building their capacity to manage community conserved areas, funded by the Sustainable Development Dialogues Programme of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).


In June 2007, Insight participated in a course on community based conservation and ethnoecology in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, that was held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology. Participants from 12 African countries attended the course, which was funded by The Christensen Fund.

Insight is also engaged in long term training,support and dialogue with indigenous communities in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. In Sabah, Nick Lunch led a workshop at Sabah Parks Headquarters for park rangers, local Dusun indigenous research assistants, NGO staff and University students. The aims of this project, which is funded by the UK Darwin Initiative, are:

- to enable those who are the real stewards of biocultural diversity to be able to transfer and receive knowledge themselves
- to exchange this knowledge with scientists
- to assert their traditional rights
- to provide evidence of responsible stewardship across generations
- to build bridges with other stakeholders and those who affect policy making

“A community workshop allowed the local research assistants to share what they learned with their fellow community members . Together they created severalscripts (storyboards) on issues chosen by the community members in
collaboration with GDF-Sabah team members : "Land, resources and conservation in Buayan", "Local research assistants, ethnobiology and community use zones”, and " Culturally appropriate education in indigenous
preschools”. Videos on these subjects will be presented at several international fora in 2008, including the Fourth World Conservation Congress in Barcelona. This will allow the community membersto present their perspectives – including opinions of the Darwin Initiative project – in their own words and images. " (Taken from the Darwin Initiative Newsletter 10 Issue 10)




For more information and videos go to the Biocultural Diversity Theme Page.