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Livelihood Sovereignty
Overview
Livelihood Sovereignty is ‘a holistic ethical alternative solution’ which consists of five inter-relative rights: 1) The right to land, forest and water, clean air and natural landscape (basic); 2) The right to maintain one’s own religion (unique); 3) The right to live according to one’s own way of life and values of happiness and wellbeing within one’s own natural environment (practice); 4) The right to operate according to one’s own knowledge and decide what to plant, initiate, create and invent on one’s own land; (holistic); and 5) The right to co-manage or co-govern natural resources with neighboring communities and local authorities (strategic).
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Worship Nature
Overview
Nature is the Mother of all creatures. Such a simple and long lasting philosophy should always remind us to promote ‘Friendliness in mind - Faith in our behaviour - and Beauty in our relationships’.
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The H’re indigenous worldview is that a ll things have soul and spirits. In the natural world of the H’re, there are many kinds of spirits called Zang. They are Spirit of the Sky (Zang Pling), Spirit of the Thunder (Zang Y Voac), Spirit of the Land (Zang Ta Ni), Spirit of the Mountain (Zang Vang Can), Spirit of the Rock (Zang Ha Mat), and Spirit of the Tree (Zang Loong) and so forth. |
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After 10 years of policy implementation, Quang Nam is one of the most proactive provinces in Vietnam achieving great efforts. About 249 communities were allocated with over 160 thousand hectares of forest and forestland. Yet, due to various reasons, such allocated forest and forestland area has yet merely been done on paper, while even the allocation record is yet completed. |
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In the Central Highlands, forest and human are in extremely close connection. “I have traveled a lot. Wherever I have been in the Central Highlands, I see that people cannot live without forest. For the sustainable development of the Central Highlands, it must not separate people from forest…” |
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There are primeval forests of the Central Highlands which are still green, even though they are located in a densely populated area. Such respected spaces are ‘sacred forests’ that nobody would dare "desecrate". |
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Pho Cu is the name of a village in Simacai district, Lao Cai province. It was established under the French colonial period. Pho Cu retains a spirit forest with an area of about 3 hectares. This forest names Lung San. Lung San is a sacred place for whole community to organize the traditional festival, namely Nao Long of the Mong.
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Cao Quang Agro-Forestry and Ecological Service Cooperative 
