At Cultural Sanctuaries, we work at the crossroads of culture and conservation and support indigenous communities in protecting and celebrating their culture, language and land.

Indigenous cultures are eroding and some 24 languages disappear each and every year.

Culture and Nature go hand in hand and cultural and language protection are crucial not only to protect the world's cultural diversity but also to underpin conservation.

• 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is on the land lived on by indigenous communities
• Science proves that indigenous people are the best guardians of their land
• It has protected them and they have protected it for thousands of years BUT….
• Indigenous communities can not be its guardians if they are forced by economic duress, land degradation and climate change to move away from or lose their connection with their land.

We must protect the protectors.