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Almost seven years after the third workshop of The Delos Initiative, held in Inari, Finland, the fourth workshop took place in Malta from 24-26 April 2017. The workshop, which was funded by the MAVA Foundation, included experts from different fields, coming from twelve countries: Bosnia, Greece, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malta, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Serbia, Spain, Saudi Arabia,...

The Delos Initiative on sacred natural sites in technologically developed countries was launched in 2004, in the context of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of IUCN and its Task Force on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas, currently a Specialist Group (SG/CSVPA). The Initiative is co-ordinated jointly by Thymio Papayannis, director...

The Delos Initiative on sacred natural sites in technologically developed countries was launched in 2004, in the context of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of IUCN and its Task Force on Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas, currently a Specialist Group (SG/CSVPA). The Initiative is jointly coordinated by Thymio Papayannis from...

The Delos Initiative, focusing on the sacred natural sites in developed countries throughout the world, is a project of the Specialist Group on the Cultural and Spiritual Values of Protected Areas (CSVPA) of IUCN. Its main goal is to contribute to a better management of sacred natural sites, i.e. natural sites of spiritual significance in...

As the end of the year is fast approaching and the holiday season is upon us, the Med-INA team would like to take note of its major activities and achievements during 2018 and take the opportunity to wish all its partners a Happy New Year 2019. MedINA’s major project this year is the Terra Lemnia...

As the end of the year has arrived and the holiday season is upon us, the MedINA team would like to take note of its major activities and achievements during 2017 and take the opportunity to wish all its partners a Happy New Year 2018. 2017 was the third year of implementation of the MAVA-funded...

Spiritual values are of major importance in protected areas, and even though a large proportion of visitors shows special interest in them, they are often neglected when it comes to the identification, assessment and effective ways of adequately integrating them into protected area planning and management. Approaches to the management and governance of protected and...

Med-INA, the Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos, was established in Athens in September 2003 as a non-profit scientific organisation working on the interface of nature and culture. During its first decade, Med-INA focused on three priority areas, which included (a) the cultural values and services of wetlands in the Mediterranean and globally, (b) landscapes...

Thymio Papayannis has been working on wetland conservation, wise use and the cultural values of wetlands, and with the Ramsar Convention for 26 years, in the framework Greece, the Mediterranean and globally. He has played a key role in the establishment of important research institutes and organisations in natural environment and culture, such as WWF...