The Sovereign Stewards of Biodiversity 299
Country
Biocultural
Local/community PIC
Legal
Source
community protocol
(with domestic texts and materials)
recognition of
BCP
Ek Balam BCP
• General Law of Ecological Balance and Environmental
https://absch.cbd.
Protection, DOF 05–06–2018
int/api/v2013/
• General Wildlife Law, DOF 19-01-2018
documents/4D03DAC0• General Law of Sustainable Forestry Development, DOF
33C3-0F01-83705–06–2018, Article 2, XIII, Article 5, Art. 102
A093EAABCE69/
*(López Bárcenas, 2016, p. 42; Morineau & Morineau, 1997, p.
200 ; López Bárcenas & Espinoza Sauceda, 2006)
Draft General Law on Biodiversity (“Proyecto de Ley General de
Biodiversidad”), October 2016, introduced in Senate by the
Senator Ninfa Salinas Sada and endorsed by the Ministry of
Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat).
attachments/PCB%20
Capula%CC%81lpam%20
de%20
Me%CC%81ndez%20
pliego.pdf (Spanish
version).
Panama
Biocultural
Yes
Yes
https://absch.cbd.
Protocol «
Relevant texts and materials:
int/api/v2013/
Protection of
the indigenous
knowledge
associated
with genetic
resources
», El Piro
Community,
Ngäbe – Bugle
Region, Panama
• Constitution, Art. 127: “comarca”.
(Goodman, 2013; also see Herrera, 2015).
•
Ngäbe-Buglé: Law No. 10 of 7 March 1997, on the establishment
of the Ngobe-Bugle comarca and other measures, Gaceta Oficial
No. 23242, (11 March 1997), Art. 102, Art. 48, Art. 99
*(Wickstrom, 2003, p. 45).
• Ngäbe-Buglé: Law No. 11 of 26 March 2012, which establishes
a special regime for the protection of mineral resources, water
and environmental resources in the Ngäbe-Buglé comarca, Gaceta
Oficial Nº 27001, (26 March 2012)
DEE9-17F6-784014EFA8C10794/
attachments/2017_
Protocolo%20
Biocultural%20
Comunidad%20El%20
Piro.pdf (Spanish version).
• Law No. 41 of 1 July 1998, General Law of the Environment,
Art. 100, Art. 104, art. 105
(Continued)