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Bio-cultural Diversity of Living Indigenous Sacred Site and Experiences Project at Gamo Gofa
| The purpose of this project is to identify and categorize different sacred places, the indigenous belief system and the associated culture and biodiversity; and to work with local people on conservation and protection of the valuable local heritage in the Project sites which include four districts of Gamo Gofa, South west Ethiopia, namely Chencha, Dita, Dermalo, Bonke and Boreda. The project will also study the role traditional knowledge plays in conserving and utilizing bio-cultural diversity in sacred land of the Gamo community. |  |
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The EWNHS has embarked upon this project since January 2005 with the financial support from The Christensen Fund, a private, independent foundation dedicated to assisting organizations in the visual arts, conservation science and education. During the years 2005 and 2006 a comprehensive list of 544 sacred sites in Bonkie, Boroda, Chencha, and Dita have been collected and reports on status of sacred sites and beliefs around the sacred sites were produced. Of these sacred sites, 250 were sacred relict forests that are used as a refugia for rare, threatened and endemic plant species |