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Uncover a traditional knowledge success story.
"The community should be trusted." That's the advice of John Kasaona, a world-changing conservationist who wants to see local communities put in charge of solving their own environmental problems, and empowered to conserve their own natural resources.
Kasaona grew up watching his father hunt and kill endangered animals in in the Kunene Region of Namibia, in order to put food on the table for his family. But today, Kasaona's father is no longer a poacher. Instead, he works to protect the same animals in Namibia, as part of a community-organized effort to build up wildlife tourism in the region.
"Some conservationists try to protect rhinos and elephants by keeping local people away from these animals," Kasaona says. "But the best way to save endangered beasts is to let villagers own them. They should be able to protect them or eat them as they choose." Kasaona believes that local communities will make smart choices, if they are empowered to reap the rewards.
"Why? Because keeping the animal population alive proves more valuable to the village in the long-run. It helps them bring in tourism money and to take pride in the wildlife all around them."
"You don’t need a university degree to understand this. People take care of what they own. If they benefit from something, they value it."
Kasaona is part of a growing global movement, dedicated to empowering local communities to put their indigenous knowledge to good use. The Community-Based Natural Resource Management Network, or the CBNRM Net for short, is helping track and guide the movement in more than 70 countries around the world.
Your mission this week is to find out more about the movement to put traditional knowledge to better use -- and help spread its vision for the future.
Your objective:
Uncover a community management success story from the CBNRM Net's collection of more than 250 case studies from 75 countries.
Or, pick an indigenous knowledge case study from the KIVU (Knowlege, Imagery, Vision, and Understanding) Project for Indigeneous Knowledge.
Pick out what YOU think is the most important lesson from the case study and share it with the EVOKE network in a blog post, video or photo essay.
Super-objective: If you want to make an extra heroic effort this week, see if you can find follow-up information on the same case from another source. Bring the EVOKE network completely up to date on your success story.
This objective is worth +12 local insight.
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Comment by Kennedy Suttle on November 29, 2012 at 1:58am
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I think the most important lesson is that if you lose something that you don't think you need, and it is taken away from you, you will realize that it is very valuable. For example, you might take drinking water for granted, then when there is a drought you need it more than you thought you would.
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Comment by Zeba Huque on November 28, 2012 at 10:14pm
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A very important lesson I learned is that you should always be happy with what you have now. On day, it will be gone and you can't reverse anything. If we all look around and really think about it, we have everything we need AND want.
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Comment by madalyn lieberman on November 28, 2012 at 10:12pm
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The most important lesson to me is that our resources are depleting very fast and we don't know how much you need something until you lose it for good.
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I believe that the most important lesson is that you never know how much you love something until you lose it.
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Comment by Caroline Thomson on November 28, 2012 at 3:21am
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I think the most important lesson for me is that once you lose something that is important you realize how important it is to you.
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Comment by Julia Sherrill on November 28, 2012 at 2:09am
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The most important lesson for me was that with the small amount of resources that we have ( that are diminishing rapidly), we need to protect them and use them wisely. Once you use all of the resource ( and probably more than even that), you cannot get it back no matter how hard you try.
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I think a lesson that i got from CBNRM is the diminishing water in Cameroon. The lesson from that is to take care of your necessary resources.
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I think the most important lesson is that when something gets hurt you then realize how much you liked and enjoyed, and cared for it. It is always important to take care of your belongings and not let others destroy theres either.
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Comment by Hannah Rose Fountain on November 27, 2012 at 1:39am
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I believe that the most important lesson from the case study is that once you destroy something and can't get it back, you truly realize how important it was and encourage others to not make your mistake and to look in the long term effect, not the short term.
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I think that the most important lesson from the case study, was that if one is granted with something of their own, that they will take good care of it. For example, if communities were given the right to choose how to use thier natural resources, they would use them for good purposes.
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I think the most imporant lesson from the case study was to viable institutional innovations with respect to community based natural resource management in developing and transitional economies because it shows that you trust your community and love it with respect.
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Comment by Claudia Siatkowski on June 17, 2012 at 4:52pm
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In Germany there are no more wild brown bears. By the Middle Ages they were driven back into remote areas. Beginning of the 19th Century man had also wiped out the last of them - 1835 the last "German" brown bear was shot in Bavaria (Ruhpolding).
170 years later, a brown bear was first spotted back in Germany: JJ1 ("Bruno") stopped in spring 2006 some time in the German-Austrian border area. The bear came from a resettlement project in the Italian Alps. After a warm welcome in Bavaria, the state government declared him a short time later, as a "problem bear" and hunters were authorized to shoot the bear - despite of an enormous wave of protests.'VIER PFOTEN' and the 'STIFTUNG FÜR BÄREN' offered a species-appropriate placement for the bear. But Bruno was shot on 26 June 2006 in Bavaria.
Since then, Germany has done little in the protection of wild bears. The first part of the Bavarian brown bear management plan raises many questions and in case of doubt leaves a margin.
Since 2006 the BÄRENWALD Müritz offers bears from bad posture a pet-friendly home. In the total 16-hectare outdoor enclosure there are at the present twelve brown bears. Through the enlargement in 2011, there is now room for more bears. Visitors can experience the bears on a hike through the forest and learn more about these interesting wildlife animals at individual stations.
In addition to the BÄRENWALD Müritz there are still two more sanctuaries for bears. The BÄRENWALD in the Austrian Arbesbach and the DANCING BEARS PARK in Belitsa.
They offer, as well as the BÄRENWALD Müritz bears from poor housing conditions an animal-friendly home until her natural death.
Visitors get a glimpse into the daily routine of the bears and learn more about the animals.
All 'bear projects' are supervised in scientific projects. In addition, 'VIER PFOTEN' supports the beras orphanage in Hargitha, a protection project for bears in northeastern Romania. Bear Orphans here are prepared for a life in freedom.
I was already in the BÄRENWALD Müritz and I have to say that it was very impressive to see these maltreated bears in this nature reserve. They have species-appropriate conditions there. For me this is a project I wanted to show you here!
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How we use Ushahidi ?
As everyone knows, it’s kind of difficult for drivers parking their own cars on the streets in Taiwan. In order to save their treasurable time, people may use the intelligent invention – Ushahidi to help them find the parking lot which are the nearest or cheapest. Or even some spaces that are available for people to pare for free!
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In nowadays, where life is surrounded with numerous sciences, people are beginning to lose the wisdom of the expertise their ancestors have gained in life experiences, and may even find those wisdoms silly or somewhat “useless in life.” Yet, we do not realize that a lot of knowledge we learn in school or find in textbooks is the gifts our ancestors left for us----their wisdom, their expertise.
Thousands of years ago when science isn’t available, people already had the knowledge of astronomy and forecasting by interacting with nature. By examining the celestial bodies, searching for signs of any disasters such as droughts, and take preventive measures to avoid the damages and destruction, our ancestors were able to maintain a wealthy life.
Expertise is gained through life by our ancestors years ago and the aboriginals today all use the same wisdom they learnt from nature and the environment they live in. Different places have different local indigenous, and they all have different stories or wisdom behind them.
So no matter how other local expertise are, we should not look at them with unfriendly eyes, but treat them as a wonderful and special wisdom.
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They are really wise! They care about all the things around their life so that they can prevent some disasters. Actually, locals usually know more things which belong to the land than a foreigner. The wisdom is up to how much you focus on your life.
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I think they are like Maya people but I think Maya people are smarter than them. I feel confuse. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau, what are they doing....? Maybe this world is not fair...We are all born this way! That’s OK! I think they are born this way. God made them, no reason. God created them, and gave them such a wisdom brain.
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Comment by gmoke on June 17, 2011 at 5:26pm
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I have a friend who has been working with the Maasai on building more efficient cookstoves and installing small solar electric systems. Not quite indigenous knowledge but local technology transfer. You can learn more at http://www.maasaistovessolar.org/
From what I've seen, the innovation that will be coming out of Africa in the next couple of decades will blow us all away. There are some very smart and engaged people all across Africa who are dreaming big dreams and bringing them into reality one small step at a time.
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Ushahidi is an innovaton software. The software can be installed in the computer, and even in the smart phone which is i-phone and Android system. For example, if there is a big festival that held in the Taipei City Hall Square, you will see that there will be a big cycle on the map near that place, and you’ll know that there were holding an event, so you can whether think you want to go or not. By using the software, you can quickly figue out the happening things around you, even the disasters. I think the software will be welcome in Taiwan and becomes popular just like Facebook.
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I think Ushahidi is like Google map but is a little better than Google Map. You can use it to know how to go to the place you want to go. If you meet something you like but you don’t know how to know more information about it, using Ushahidi, you will certainly find what you really want. It can make our life more convenient. Actually we can invent a sort of machine with Ushahidi. That would be great! You don’t have to buy a computer and use Ushahidi~
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Comment by Jenny on June 17, 2011 at 4:54pm
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I think that people can forecast weather by observing celestial bodies are very wise. It could help them prevent disasters from their life. Big disasters always happen from small signs. We should keep observing things around us, finding the difference.
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