Detailed description is Indigenous & Local Knowledge contributing to global decisions; encouraging indigenous enterprise & guiding future generations. Indigenous knowledge informing global decisions; indigenous enterprise; and development of future generations for the Pacific. . It is appropriate that the Indigenous Centre is located here on the Hihiaua Peninsula,. . Whāngarei Terenga Paraoa, which, is often translated as The meeting place of Whales or metaphorically The meeting place of Chiefs.. . Legend has it, the famed Polynesian navigator Kupe was the first person to see Whāngarei Harbour’s dramatic headlands, while on his way back to Hawaiki around 950 AD, Kupe left directions to his people on how to return to Aotearoa from Hawaiki,. . ”Waiho i te taha katau o te rā, o te marama, o Kōpū rere ai.”. ”Let it be to the right of the sun, of the moon, of the Morning Star on high.” Kupe (800AD). . The Pacific Indigenous & Local Knowledge Centre of Distinction was established to assist in mainstreaming Indigenous & Local Knowledge into the Intergovernmental Policy-Science Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services and in monitoring and implementation of the Platform’s work.
Established in the recent years Pacific Indigenous & Local Knowledge Centre of Distinction in whangarei, northland in new-zealand.
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