Contribution des organisations non gouvernementales écologistes à l’aménagement des forêts sacrées en Côte d’Ivoire : l’expérience de la Croix Verte
The worldwide failures observed in recent policies in environmental protection and their adverse effects on development in African countries, have raised new interest for local knowledge and natural practices. As a matter of fact, although long neglected, even sometimes mistreated, the sacred forest...
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| Language: | fra |
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Éditions en environnement VertigO
2005-05-01
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| Series: | VertigO |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/2813 |
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| Summary: | The worldwide failures observed in recent policies in environmental protection and their adverse effects on development in African countries, have raised new interest for local knowledge and natural practices. As a matter of fact, although long neglected, even sometimes mistreated, the sacred forests and rituals that take place within them, are considered, since the signing of the Convention on biological diversity in 1992, as a real sanctuary for animal as well as plant diversity. This tendency received considerable attention by the African communities. In Côte d’Ivoire, the Green Cross took the lead in its engagement in the movement for the preservation and valorisation of sacred forest reserves. Since 2002, this NGO has embarked into a management experiment, within 4 sacred forests reserves, known as the “Three Integrated Zones Strategy”. The importance of this innovative experiment resides in the fact that it brings into scene an NGO created and managed by youngsters. This undertaking reveals the future of the ancestral traditions that would have been sold off by younger generations, eager to adopt western way of living. Because of its innovative and prospective character, the Green Cross experiment call out the scientific community, notably the social scientists. This study aims at analysing the Côte d’Ivoire Green Cross experience. In this perspective, the article strives first to characterise, from the western point of view of conservation, the concept of “Three Integrated Zones Strategy”. In addition, it analyses the relevance of the strategy with respect to the customs reference framework. of the sacred forest. Then it discusses the efficacy of the model, in terms of sustainable management of sacred forest reserves in order to apprehend the different implications of the intervention on local populations. |
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| ISSN: | 1492-8442 |