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Table 1: Communities and supporting organizations that have developed or are developing and using biocultural
community protocols
Communities
Supporting Organizations
AFRICA
Traditional health practitioners in Mpumalanga,
South Africa
Tanchara community and communities in the
Nadowli District of northern Ghana
Pastoral communities on the Waso Rangeland in
northern Kenya
Karima community in the central highlands of
Kenya
Samburu pastoralists in the Samburu District, Kenya
Maasai Communities of Ilkesumeti in the Kajiado
District, Kenya
Kakula Traditional Health Practitioners Association
Indigenous communities in Lamu, Kenya
Traditional residents of the Sheka Forest, Ethiopia
Save Lamu
MELCA-Ethiopia
Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and
Organizational Development
Kivulini Trust
Porini Association
LIFE Network Kenya
Mainyoito Pastoralist Integrated Development
Organization
ASIA
Jaisalmer camel breeders and Raika livestock
keepers in Rajasthan, India
Maldhari livestock keepers in Kachchh, Gujarat,
India
Lingayat livestock keepers in the Bargur Forest
Range of Tamil Nadu, India
Traditional healers and medicinal plants
conservation farmers in Rajasthan, India
Vaidyas (traditional healers) of the Malayali tribes
in the Vellore District of Tamil Nadu, India
Farmers in Nagapattinam District, Tamil Nadu, India
Organic farmers across Sri Lanka
Indigenous Dusun communities in Sabah, Malaysia
Livestock keepers in Balochistan and Cholistan,
Pakistan
Indigenous nomadic pastoralist tribes in Iran
Jaisalmer Camel Breeders Association and Lokhit
Pashu-Palak Sansthan
Banni Breeders Association and Sahjeevan
Sustainable Agriculture and Environment Voluntary
Action
Jagran Jan Vikas Samiti
Association of Tamil Nadu Traditional Siddha
Healers
Sirkhazi Organic Farmers Association and Centre for
Indian Knowledge Systems
Future in Our Hands
Global Diversity Foundation and Partnership of
Community Organizations (PACOS)
Society of Animal, Veterinary and Environmental
Scientists (SAVES)
Centre for Sustainable Development (CENESTA)
SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA
Alto San Juan community in Chocó, Colombia
Quechua communities in Peru
Chipaya and Tapacari communities in Bolivia
Mapuche communities in Lafkence, Chile
Kuna Yala communities in Panama
Mayan communities in Guatemala
ASOCASAN Community Council and Instituto de
Investigaciones Ambientales del Pacífico
Asociación ANDES
AGRUCO
Kume Felen
Fundación para la Promoción del Conocimiento
Indígena
Oxlajuj Ajpop