Table of Contents Letter from the Chair ................................................................................................. Taghi Farvar .................................... 3 An issue with a message!........................................................................................... The editors ...................................... 4-5 Section I: The complexities of governing protected areas David Kaimowitz, Angelica Faune, and Your biosphere is my backyard: the story of Bosawas in Nicaragua ................................... Rene Mendoza ................................ 6-15 Gouvernance des aires protégées et « normes pratiques » de gestion locale au Bassin du Congo ............................................................................................................................ Jean Claude Nguinguiri ................... 16-21 Injustice and conservation: is local support necessary for sustainable protected areas? ...... Dan Brockington ............................. 22-30 Myths, challenges and questions on mobile pastoralism in West Asia ................................. M. Taghi Farvar ............................... 31-41 Michael Cernea and Kai Schmidt- The end of forcible displacements? Making conservation and impoverishment incompatible Soltau ............................................. 42-51 Protected areas and poverty ........................................................................................... Thomas O. McShane ....................... 52-53 ¿Son los comunes una tragedia o una oportunidad? ......................................................... Patricia Madrigal and Vivienne Solis .. 53-54 Intangible values of protected areas ................................................................................ Dave Harmon ................................. 55-63 National parks as cultural entities .................................................................................... Mark Infield .................................... 64-70 All parks are peopled parks ............................................................................................. Andy Wilson ................................... 71-75 Reclaiming diversity and sustainability in community-based conservation ........................... Michel Pimbert ................................ 76-86 Dilys Roe, Jon Hutton, Joanna Elliott, Munyaradzi Saruchera and Kule In pursuit of pro-poor conservation ................................................................................. Chitepo ........................................... 87-91 Governance of protected areas: innovations in the air... .................................................… Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend ................ 92-101 Section II: The civil society speaks out! Areas protegidas y comunidades rurales: una convivencia natural .................................... ACICAFOC (Central America) ............ 102-103 Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas in Southern Africa ................................... PRETORIA workshop participants ...... 104-105 La Kompienga Declaration on governance of Protected Areas in Africa ............................... The Kompienga workshop participants 105-108 A legal breakthrough for Aboriginal Australians! ................................................................ Sean Kerins ..................................... 109-110 Section III: CCAs and CMPAs: a full spectrum of learning and struggles The Shimshal governance model—a CCA, a sense of cultural identity, a way of life… .......... Inayat Ali and David Butz ................. 111-120 Bijagos Islands: resistance and conservation .................................................................... Claudio Carrera Maretti ..................... 121-131 Traditional institutions manage their forests in Zimbabwe ................................................. Zvidzai Chidhakwa ............................ 132-140 Communities Conserved Areas in India ............................................................................ Ashish Kothari and Neema Pathak ..... 141-144 Matavén forest: creating a Community Conserved Area in Colombia .................................. Andres Luque .................................. 145-151 Ramses Iwan on behalf of the Setulang village in Kalimantan: we protect our river! ........................................................ Setulang village ............................... 152-153 Contra la expansion de la acuacultura del camaron en Honduras: la historia de Modesto Ochoa ........................................................................................................................... Jorge Varela .................................... 154-155 Woulimata Thiaw, Seydina Issa Sylla Les Aires du Patrimoine Communautaire au Sénégal ......................................................... et Jean Larivière .............................. 156-165 Coron island and rights-based conservation in The Philippines ........................................... Maurizio Ferrari and David De Vera ... 166-170 Germán Zuluaga, José Ignacio Conservacion bio-cultural: el Parque Nacional Natural Alto Fragua-Indiwasi en Colombia ..... Giraldo y Marcela Jiménez Larrarte ... 171-180 Co-management, oil & gas industry & indigenous empowerment in Kaa Iya del Gran Chaco, Bolivia ............................................................................................................................ Nick Winer ...................................... 181-191 Politics and participatory planning of Pohnpei’s Watershed, Micronesia ............................... Andrew Tilling ................................. 192-195 Protecting Miraflor… or protecting the livelihood of small-scale farmers?.............................. Helle Ravnborg ................................ 196-199 Las áreas de manejo de administración pesquera en Chile ................................................. Jaime Aburto & Wolfgang Stotz ........ 200-204 Ralph Buss y Eileen Mairena Manejo participativo y autodeterminación indígenas: la reserva Bosawas en Nicaragua ........ Cunningham .................................... 205-215 Community-based management of national forests in the Western United States ................. Randall Wilson ................................. 216-224 Hanane Allali-Puz, Eléonore Bechaux Gouvernance et démocratie locale dans les Parcs Naturels Régionaux de France ................. et Catherine Jenkins ......................... 225-237 Edson Rodrigues Santos, José Marques de Souza, Jean-Philippe Une filière économique pour préserver les paysages du Pantanal ...................................... Delorme, Reginaldo Lima de Barros .. 238-245 Port Honduras Marine Reserve ........................................................................................ Will Maheya .................................... 246-248 The Dayak people & Kayan Mentarang— first co-managed protected area in Indonesia ...... Cristina Eghenter and Martin Labo ... 248-253 Regina Birner and Marhawati Community agreements on conservation in Lore Lindu, Sulawesi (Indonesia) ..................... Mappatoba ..................................... 254-263 Réseau Régional de Planification Les aires marines protégées de la Zone Côtière en Afrique de l’Ouest ................................ Côtière Ouest Africain ...................... 264-268 Co-management alive and well in the Caribbean! .............................................................. Patrick Mc Conney ........................... 269-270 Hamid ould Bah, Arhmed ould Micro finance et conservation dans le Parc National du Diawling, Mauritanie ...................... Boubout et Stéphane Boujou ............ 270-275 Nepal’s experience in participatory biodiversity conservation & buffer zone initiatives .......... S. Shyam Bajimaya .......................... 276-282 Devolving rights or shedding responsibilities in Uganda’s Protected Areas? ......................... Tom Blomley and Agrippinah Namara. 283-289 The “W” Park of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger ................................................................ Thomas Price ................................... 290-293 Linda Norgrove, Mariana Montoya The Communal Reserves of Peru ..................................................................................... and Alcides Chávarry ........................ 294-300 Section IV: New resources from CEESP members Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend and Michel Announcing: Sharing Power: Learning by Doing in CM of Natural Res. throughout the World Pimbert ........................................... 301-302 Reviews on war, peace and conservation .......................................................................... David Pitt ........................................ 302-302 Announcing: Innovative Governance: Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities & PAs .......... Hanna Jaireth and Dermot Smyth ..... 304-305 Review of Equidad entre Áreas Protegidas y Comunidades Locales .................................... Thora Amend ................................... 306 Announcing: Linking Local Learners ................................................................................. Ricardo Ramirez .............................. 307 Announcing: Local Forest Management—The Impact of Devolution Policy .......................... Eva Wollenberg ............................... 308 Announcing a young people’s call for the protection of the worlds mountains ..................... David Pitt ........................................ 309 Network News ....................................................................................................................................................................