Our Approach

Our Approach

Advancing Biocultural Rights through Indigenous Law and Leadership
At ACRRA, our work is grounded in the belief that climate justice, conservation, and Indigenous self-determination are inseparable. We centre biocultural rights a set of collective, third-generation environmental rights that recognise the inextricable links between land, culture, and community. These rights are not about ownership or extraction, but about stewardship, responsibility, and belonging. They affirm that protecting Indigenous Peoples’ ways of life is vital to protecting biodiversity and ecosystems.

We work alongside Indigenous communities to assert and defend their biocultural rights—whether through land governance, customary law, or advocacy in policy and legal arenas. Our legal support focuses on areas such as Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs), strategic litigation, and policy reform that respects community-determined values and knowledge systems.

Through this approach, ACRRA aims to shift how conservation and development are done: placing Indigenous legal systems and ecological relationships at the centre and embedding biocultural rights in national and regional legal frameworks.

What We Offer

                                                                    BCP development and related community tools and legal training