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A Chinese state-owned company is behind rubber plantations that Cameroon villagers say threaten their livelihoods.
After several years of work and consultation, the Cree Nation Government has identified 30 per cent of its territory it wants to see protected from development, at least in part. When brought together, the proposed areas represent a territory roughly the size of Ireland, about 80,000 square kilo ...
A new report highlights how important the role of forest communities and indigenous people in protecting forests as carbon sinks, and why it is important to recognise these land rights.
Indigenous and tribal peoples of Asia, are facing complex threats to their survival as distinct peoples.
While the Amazonian basin is most often touted for its biodiversity, there are also hundreds of indigenous tribes that live in the rainforest. Many of these tribes are under direct threat of displacement by resource extraction and deforestation. To this day, 70 percent of the Ecuadorian Amazon h ...
Indigenous and tribal peoples of Asia are facing complex threats to their survival as distinct peoples. Not only are they confronted with dispossession of their lands, resources and physical persecution, they are also faced with the appropriation of their collective knowledge on plants, trees, a ...
The issue of the Anak Dalam tribe, also known as the Orang Rimba, who traditionally live deep in the forest in Jambi in small nomadic groups, came into the spotlight in the past few years after they were forced to leave their land because of uncontrolled conversion of natural forest.
Indigenous peoples will have a chance to share their traditional knowledge on the environment and play a role in the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change and build a sustainable low carbon future.
A University of New Brunswick scientist working on a contentious Miramichi salmon stocking program admits it cannot proceed without backing of First Nations groups. And there appears little likelihood of that happening, with Eel Ground Chief George Ginnish calling it a "non-starter."
People of the Whale is the story of an Iñupiaq whaling crew, living where the vast plain of ice meets the waters of the Arctic Ocean. For the last 2,000 years, the Iñupiaq have stood on the edge of the sea ice, waiting for the migration of bowhead whales.
Reviving traditional peoples’ knowledge of sustainable food systems and use of biodiversity could act as a bulwark against the triple threat of obesity, undernutrition and climate change, described as “three of the gravest threats to human health and survival” in a new report.
It was Thursday, Nov. 8, but the Mayan calendar marked the day as Wukub’ Q’anil, or 7 Rabbit, a good day to ask for the rebirth of sterile lands and the fertility of all living beings. Rumualdo López, a Maya priest and spiritual guide, was prepared to hike up to the top of Siete Orejas, a mounta ...
The Fourth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum, organized by IFAD in Rome, took place on February 12th and 13th. First established in 2011, the forum is a permanent process of consultation and dialogue between representatives from indigenous peoples’ institutions and organizations, ...
Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world. Resettlement of indigenous communities resulted in the spread of invasive species, the absence of human-set fires, and a general cascade in the interconnected food web that led to the largest mammalian extinction event ever record ...
The mainstream development paradigm has aggravated discontent among Adivasi communities. The reasons are not difficult to recognise – it encourages the siege of native resources, drives competition, is surplus-driven, instills private ownership and consequently, is affecting the cultural identit ...
About 8 million indigenous people in India are in danger of being evicted from forests that their ancestors have lived in for millennia. This grave injustice follows a shocking supreme court ruling that rides roughshod over the rights of India’s indigenous people, known as Adivasi, or tribals.
Ecological restoration projects actively involving indigenous peoples and local communities are more successful. This is the result of a study carried out by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), which places value on indigenou ...
Within 100 years, many of our cities will become uninhabitable, submerged under oceans or deadly hot. Food will be more difficult to grow. Storms will become more violent. The gentle planet we’ve known will be no more.
Timber Creek is the quintessence of a one-horse town. Even by Northern Territory, Australia standards it is tiny. Now, it is the centre of a native title decision which has national significance and massive implications for the country.
Recently, there has been widespread concern about the possibility of a large-scale eviction of those tribal and forest-dweller households which have had their claims rejected under the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA).
The Surui Forest Carbon Project was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory during its first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large g ...
Indigenous communities have made and continue to make important contributions to industrial agriculture, the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology but there is a need to safeguard their indigenous knowledge with alternative systems, so that they, in their own terms, benefit from the commerci ...
The past can be a guide for the future. Located in remote Odisha, the story of Tribal Kondh could be a model for replication of sustainable development elsewhere. One of the tribal Kondh communities, residing on the slope of the Niyamagiri range, they offer hope. The community connects agricultu ...
Scientists working to reduce the biodiversity disaster being caused by the march of cane toads across Northern Australia have concluded that Indigenous knowledge is the key to their success.
The Bengal tiger has been used as a national brand since long before there was India, or nations. Back in the twenty-fifth century BCE, the Pashupati seal of the Indus Valley Civilisation was a tiger.
The prehistoric environment was created by humans who enhanced biodiversity, altering the plants and animals to suit themselves. Contemporary tribal peoples are still doing this today. The fact that they are the world’s best conservationists is not a “noble savage” romantic fantasy; it can now b ...
Protecting Indigenous languages is important, not only because it allows communities to maintain their traditions and livelihoods, but because languages are intimately tied up with questions of identity, tradition, cultural history, and memory. Perhaps most importantly, they allow knowledge to b ...
Plants play an important role for most indigenous communities in South America, and not merely as a source of food.
Researchers collaborate with Kashechewan First Nation to understand changing spring flooding in northern Ontario.
3 May 2019: The 18th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII) convened on the overall theme of ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Traditional Knowledge: Generation, Transmission and Protection.’
“Climate change is hitting hardest those who have done least to cause it, especially the world’s indigenous peoples from the Arctic to the tropics,” said renowned actor and activist Alec Baldwin speaking at the 18th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York o ...
Brazil's legendary indigenous chief Raoni headed to Paris Sunday for the start of a three-week tour across Europe where he will meet heads of state, celebrities and the Pope to highlight growing threats to the Amazon.
If upheld, a lawsuit by environmentalists in India could lead to millions of Adivasi being displaced from their ancestral lands.
In a country where women account for almost half of Brazil’s 900,000 native people, female indigenous leaders have now stepped boldly into the political spotlight.
If we want to halt the extinction crisis, we need to embrace Indigenous worldviews.
Indigenous communities claim share of profitable global trade as exports to China fall foul of diplomacy
Over the past decade, First Nations have created a robust conservation economy in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest old-growth temperate rainforests left in the world, through investments in sustainable development and environmental stewardship projects that link the health of n ...
From grizzly bears in areas undocumented by Western science to a possible new fast-running subtype of caribou, traditional knowledge is enriching scientific information about our natural world
Bonn - The math is simple: about 25 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are connected with land use, and the traditional territories of indigenous peoples cover a quarter of the world’s land surface.
Climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa has just been elected to head the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in climate talks.
DOROGOT, Indonesia — Toikot rises as the golden light of dawn begins to shine on the heavy mist that cloaks the rainforest canopy outside his home in Indonesia’s Siberut Island.
NAPO, Ecuador — Gloria Ushigua, president of the Sápara women’s association, stops by a large, thin, spindly tree that looks almost dead, and breaks off a thin branch.
The average distance from home to school is five kilometres for indigenous children in Kenya. Often this journey is constrained by other factors: no roads and wild elephants or lions hanging around along the path.
Tradition and technology are clashing on the tundra where Indigenous groups are debating the use of drones to hunt caribou.
Sometimes modern problems require ancient solutions.
Substituting organic “bio-inputs” for synthetic agrochemicals is still a one-size-fits-all, technology-focused solution, which means it won’t lead to sustainable agriculture.
While Canada’s indigenous peoples agree the country has a long way to go in addressing a legacy of colonial abuse, they are making strides in restoring a cultural identity that was long repressed.
The highly climate- and biodiversity-friendly agricultural practice of agroforestry is now practiced widely around the world, but its roots are deeply indigenous.
Clip shows a bare-chested man with a spear, who is believed to belong to the Awá people, the world’s most threatened tribe
As the world moves forward (or backward) in the wake of this spring’s report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services that showed that at least one million species are threatened with extinction, we might want to listen and learn from form the pla ...