Dana Declaration
At the end of this meeting, the following declaration was agreed, now known as the Dana Declaration:

The world faces unprecedented threats to the conservation and sustainable use of its biodiversity. . . .

The linked pressures of human population dynamics, unsustainable consumption patterns, climate change and global and national economic forces threaten both the conservation of biological resources and the livelihoods of many indigenous and traditional peoples. . . .

Mobile peoples are discriminated against. Their rights, including rights of access to natural resources, are often denied and conventional conservation practices insufficiently address their concerns. These factors, together with the pace of global change, undermine their lifestyles, reduce their ability to live in balance with nature and threaten their very existence as distinct peoples.

Nonetheless, through their traditional resource use practices and culture-based respect for nature, many mobile peoples are still making a significant contribution to the maintenance of the earth's ecosystems, species and genetic diversity--even though this often goes unrecognized. Thus the interests of mobile peoples and conservation converge, especially as they face a number of common challenges. There is therefore an urgent need to create a mutually reinforcing partnership between mobile peoples and those involved with conservation.

The participants at the Wadi Dana conference committed themselves to promoting conservation practices which consider the rights and capacities of mobile peoples based on a set of clearly defined principles. 

The Dana Declaration serves to remind us that protecting the full cultural diversity of humanity, the settled and the mobile, is also part of the broader biodiversity that we all seek to preserve. In September, it was endorsed by representatives of mobile indigenous peoples at the World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa.


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