January 31. beaivi 2017
ARCTIC COUNCIL CAFF 25 YEARS ANNIVERSARY SEMINAR
A seminar on the use of traditional knowledge as a means and tool to preserve biodiversity is being held in Kautokeino, Norway today, Tuesday, 31 February.
The seminar is being held in advance of the CAFF biennial meeting which is also being held in Kautokeino this week. Multiple speakers from different institutions and researchers will be speaking including the Saami Council (Aile Javo), the Sami Parliament in Norway (President Vibeke Larsen), the Herzen Institute in St Petersburg, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The meeting will be held in the Sami University of Applied Sciences. See the (draft) programme below:
ARCTIC COUNCIL CAFF 25 YEARS ANNIVERSARY SEMINAR
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON USE OF IDIGENOUS PEOPLES TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE TO
PRESEREVE BIODIVERSITY.
In Saami, Russian and English.
- Opening by Reidar Hindrum, CAFF chair; Ole Anders Turi, Saami Council; Gunvor Guttorm, Rector SUAS (TBC)
- 13:00 VIBEKE LARSEN PRESIDENT OF SAAMI PARLIMAMENT
- 13:10 AILE JAVO PRESIDENT OF SAAMI COUNCIL TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE.
- 13:20 CAROLINA BEHEE, ICC TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND MONITORING OF BIODIVERSITY WITH ICC PERSPECTIVES (TBC)
- 13:40 ELLEN INGA TURI, TRAINING OF ARCTIC INDIGENOUS YOUTH TO ENHANCHE THE BIODIVERSITY USING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE 8J COURSE NOMADIC HERDERS
- 14:00 SAKHAMIN MILANOVICH AFANASIEV MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT SAKHA YAKUTIA, TERRITORY OF TRADITIONAL NATURE USE AND INDIGENOUS PEOLES OF SAKHA YAKUTIA
- 14:20 Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi The vulnerability of Saami: Climate change. traditional knowledge & cultural well-being
- 14:40 INGER MARIE G EIRA, ARBEDIEHTU PROJECT TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND BIODIVERSITY
- 15:00 GAY SANTINA PROJECT LEADER of CLEO, ALASKA, CIRCUMPOLAR LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL OBSERVER NETTWORK, ARCTIC COUNCIL ACAP.
- 15:20 WILBERT VAN ROOiJ Future loss of biodiversity in Finnmark GLOBIO 3.
- 15:40 HELENA OMMA LAPPONIA PROTECTED AREA SWEDEN SAAMI GOVERNANCE, TRADTIONAL KNOWELEDGE Board member.
- 16:00 IULIE ASLAKSEN, BIODIBERSITY AFFECTING THE ECONOMY OF THE NORTH.
- 16:20 LUDMILLA GASHILOVA, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FOOD CULTURE Institute of the peoples of the North, Herzer State Pedagogical University of Russia St. Petersburg
- 18:00 OFFICIAL ARCTIC COUNCIL CAFF 25 YEARS DINNER HOSTED SAAMI PARLIAMENT.
Please contact for further information:
Ole Anders Turi +4746440091,
Svein D Mathiesen +4790524116
