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IUCN - World Conservation Union / WCPA - World Commission on Protected Areas WWF - World Wide Fund For Nature PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES ON INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL PEOPLES AND PROTECTED AREAS May 1999 IUCN - World Conservation Union / WCPA - World Commission on Protected Areas WWF - World Wide Fund For Nature PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES ON INDIGENOUS AND TRADITIONAL PEOPLES AND PROTECTED AREAS May 1999 Background These principles and guidelines respond to WCC Resolution 1.53 on Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, adopted at the World Conservation Congress in Montreal, October, 1996, which “requests the Director General, the Secretariat and technical programmes, Commissions, members, and Councillors of IUCN, within available resources, to endorse, support, participate in and advocate the development and implementation of a clear policy in relation to protected areas established in indigenous lands and territories”. Resolution 1.53 is based on recommendations from the IV World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas (Caracas, Venezuela, 1992), calling for the development of policies for protected areas that safeguard the interests of indigenous peoples, and take into account customary resource practices and traditional land tenure systems. While the process of developing this document was accelerated after the resolution from Montreal, work began in 1995 between the IUCN Co-ordinator for Indigenous Peoples, the Programme on Protected Areas, and WCPA. In parallel, WWF had been developing their own ideas, building on a series of regional and national workshops with indigenous peoples’ organisations. Noting that many common issues emerged from both the WWF and IUCN consultations on this subject, it was decided to work together in developing a common position, building on the successful development of a WWF/IUCN joint policy on forest conservation. Annex 1 provides a definition of “indigen