managing our community forest will be supported and used by our
community and other stakeholders. Through this initiative, we also hope
our efforts in caring for and managing our community forest can be given
recognition and that we will be given ownership of the area through a
Native Reserve.
From this initiative, it is also hoped that our efforts can bring economic
returns such as in community-based tourism and as a centre for learning,
research and recreation. Furthermore, we hope that the community
forest will continue to be used and protected to ensure the continuity of
resources.
With the recognition of the Community Conserved Forest and the
enforcement of our protocols, we believe the community forest will be
preserved and encroachment in the forest can be controlled. We also
hope that a centre for storing information can be established. This centre
will also serve as the centre for governance of the Community Conserved
Forest by a council of elders (with distinctive expertise) where the
protocols will be used as a reference in governing the community forest.
7. Rights of the Kiau Community
7.1. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
UNDRIP
Article 25
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their
distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or
otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas
and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future
generations in this regard.
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