Terralingua Society for Biocultural Diversity

Our Mission

Since 2001, we have developed a comprehensive program of work to support, maintain and promote biocultural diversity on all levels through:

- fos­ter­ing the devel­op­ment of poli­cies that rec­og­nize the vital impor­tance of the diver­sity of life in nature and cul­ture, and pro­mot­ing actions to imple­ment that policy at the inter­na­tional and national lev­els

- mapping of the geo­graphic dis­tri­b­u­tion of bio­cul­tural diver­sity

- the development of key indicators to detect changes in traditional ecological knowledge, linguistic and biocultural diversity over time

- collaborating with schools to develop an integrative BCD educational curriculum

- forging a global net­work of bio­cul­tural diver­sity con­ser­va­tion prac­ti­tion­ers and projects

- establishing partnerships with Indigenous Groups to document Oral Literatures