IPBES Call for Contributions on Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK) Code: VA_1.1_Ch1 Version: 01 (22.12.2020) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4390418 Description: The IPBES Plenary, in decision IPBES-5/1, approved an approach to recognizing and working with indigenous and local knowledge in IPBES, giving IPBES an ambitious and ground-breaking process for bringing indigenous and local knowledge to the core of large-scale assessments. On June 12, 2020, a global “call for contributions on Indigenous and Local Knowledge” was launched, in 5 different languages (Arabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish) to Invite Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) from all over the world to support the three ongoing IPBES assessments: The assessment of the sustainable use of wild species The assessment on diverse conceptualisations of multiple values of nature The assessment of invasive alien species