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Daweishan Community Protected Area (CPA) is located in Yunnan Province, China. It is a place of vital importance to the Yi and Miao people, where they can practice their unique culture and traditions, inherently linked to the biodiversity of the area. This biodiversity is significant: the CPA is located in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, the Indo-Burma hotspot. Since the CPA is mountainous, the local forests vary with altitude, encompassing humid rainforest, montane rainforest, mons...
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The ICCA Registry website is an online information platform for Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas, where communities themselves provide data, case studies, maps, photos and stories which result in useful statistics and analysis on featured ICCAs around the world.
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