ABSTRACT
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted by the General Assembly in 2007, recognises that Indigenous peoples have the right to the full enjoyment of all human rights (article 1), and rights to land which they have traditionally owned or occupied and to be involved in decision-making processes relating to land (as specifically addressed in articles 18 and 26). However, a right to land is not the same as a right to landscape. As defined by the Cambridge Centre for Landscape and People Right to Landscape initiative mission statement “Landscape is an umbrella concept of an integrated entity of physical environments that is imbued with meaning” (CCLP, 2008). For Indigenous peoples landscape extends this definition – landscape is who they are and what shapes their identity.
