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Welcome to the search pages for the Icons Database. Here you can search through nearly
a half-a-million records related to biodiversity conservation, indigenous rights,
traditional knowledge, sustainable livelihoods, conservation biology, community-based
conservation, poverty alleviation and related topics.
The Icons Database is being developed by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington to serve
as a traditional knowledge and biodiversity information management system to aid
the Tribe in implementing the Cultural Ecosystem Stories Project. The software system
and database is creating a memory bank of some of their knowledge and to help protect
and restore their biocultural landscapes - the mixture of tangible and intangible
values and cultural heritage species that are inalienably linked in their traditional
landscapes.
While much of the tribal traditional knowledge is sacred or sensitive, and is held
privately by the Tulalip Tribes, some of the information they have collected is
non-traditional and they have decided to make this publicly available in order to
help promote intercultural understanding and the better protection of Mother Earth.
We hope that this information is useful to the users of this site, and we
welcome
suggestions on how we may make this more useful. We hope that this is not just a
one-way transfer point for information, and encourage other to submit pointers and
details about similar resources that they have discovered in their journeys to protect
the planet and sustain its biological and cultural diversity.
How to Search: Click on a search type at the top or botton of any
page.
Please Note: This site is a proof of concept and is continually
under development. Please be patient with our load times and enjoy!
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