...CBD, each State Party shall: 'as far as possible and as appropriate respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of Indigenous...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider application...

...should be strengthened. Notes 1. Alternative terms in international instruments include, for example, "knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity" (Convention on Biological...

...protect this knowledge. Article 8 (j). State Parties are required to “respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote the wider application...

...that any contracting party, as far as possible and appropriate, will "respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity [...]". Similarly, the Preamble...

...that each state party shall, "(s]ubject to its national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity."86 Consensus on these and...

...Biological Diversity provides: "Subject to its national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider application...

...Article 8(j) (Traditional knowledge) China has adopted a number of measures to preserve and maintain the knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant to conservation and the sustainable use of biological diversity . c. Decision V/16 (Article...

...Article 8(j) of the CBD advocates that its Contracting Parties "respect, preserve and maintain (he knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity"; that they "promote their...

...8(j) of the CBD provides that "subject to its national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and promote their wider application...

...Conference of the Parties, which states Request[ed) Parties to support the development of registers of traditional knowledge, innovations and practices of...local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity through participatory programmes...