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#1262222020-12-14
Nature-based solutions by people of nature
The synergy between Nature-based Solutions and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples can be an important tool for managing climate change.
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#1262982020-12-16
An oil palm front advances on an Indigenous community in Peru
“The invasions do not stop, the deforestation does not stop, and the threats do not stop,” Iván Flores Rodríguez said by phone from the Indigenous Santa Clara de Uchunya community. A leader of the Shipibo people, Flores Rodríguez outlines the history of his community in the Peruvian Amazon, when ...
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#1263062020-12-16
Global experts urge involvement of indigenous communities in biodiversity conservation
Multilateral institutions and governments should harness traditional knowledge, practices and innovations possessed by indigenous people in order to revitalize the biodiversity conservation agenda, experts said on Tuesday evening.
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#1263522020-12-18
OPINION: The promise and reality of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
How can the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Peasants address the exclusion of – and discrimination against – rural communities worldwide?
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#1263762020-12-21
Rainforests are under siege but indigenous peoples could still save the Amazon
Five years ago, when leaders of 197 countries adopted the historic Paris Agreement on climate, they opened our rainforest homes for business. During negotiations, member states agreed to pull from the pact a brief reference to protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples, placing us instead in th ...
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#1264222020-12-22
On the frontlines of climate change, communities are using tech to keep tradition alive
Among the Inuit Nunangat communities in far northern Canada, there's a saying: If you smack the ice with your harpoon and it doesn't go through on the first hit, it's thick enough to walk on. If you can hit it three times without it breaking, it's good for snowmobiles. And if you can hit it five ...
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#1264232020-12-22
How Adivasis of one Jharkhand village are trying to preserve ethnomedicine
Jana village is located in the Gumla district of Jharkhand. More than 90 per cent of its population is Adivasi or tribal. As such, most aspects of life here reflect Adivasi cultural and social mores. The old residents of the village recollect that their ancestors settled in the village centur ...
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#1264302020-12-23
From Brazil: Kiriri manioc flour Slow Food Presidium
The project Empowering Indigenous Youth and their Communities to Defend and Promote their Food Heritage, financed by IFAD, started in 2018 through an agreement between Slow Food, IFAD, and the Kiriri community of Banzaê.
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#1264472020-12-23
Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam
Some 40,000 people — mostly peasant farmers, fisherfolk, traditional families (living from the collection of forest products), Indigenous people, and ribeirinhos — were evicted to make way for the Belo Monte dam, constructed between June 2011 and November 2019.
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#1265042020-12-29
Indegnious Seed, Food & Biodiversity Exibation, Karlamunda, Kalahandi
Farmers taken oath conserving indigenous and traditional seeds for future food and nutritional security.The Grampanchayt level Seed, Food & Biodiversity Exibition was held at Gajabahal and Joradobra GPs of Karlamunda block. In this exhibition farmers, youths, students, SHG members, PRI represent ...
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#1265052020-12-29
Language, Landscape and Our World of Many Worlds
“In our faith there is no heaven or hell,” spoke Mayalmit Lepcha in the Janata Parliament – an Indian people’s parliament which happened online this year, on account of COVID-19. Her network is spotty. She’s in the mountains. I listen hard and try to piece together what she’s saying. Mayalmit is ...
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#1265582021-01-11
How To Solve Climate Change, According To The Bijagós Of Guinea-Bissau
The Bijagó are an ethnic group indigenous to the Bijagós archipelago, which belongs to the small nation of Guinea-Bissau on the West African Coast. They inhabit approximately 21 of the 88 islands, with the islets serving as spiritual grounds. Most of them exist at the margins of the economy, wit ...
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#1265872021-01-14
Indigenous Peoples Wary Of UN Biodiversity Rescue Plan
In 1872, Native Americans were violently evicted from what would become Yellowstone National Park As crunch UN talks to reverse the accelerating destruction of nature loom, indigenous peoples are sounding an alarm over proposed conservation plans they say could clash with their rights.
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#1266512021-01-15
Haribon: improved conservation can prevent pandemics
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic continues to put millions of lives around the world at risk, Haribon Foundation calls to address ecosystem disturbances linked to disease outbreaks and prevent future pandemics.
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#1266862021-01-26
Salt making revives Fijian traditional knowledge
In December 2019, UNDP Fiji through the Accelerator Lab Pacific embarked on an experiment to understand the interplay between traditional knowledge, cultural identity and climate resilience. Our research indicated that resilient communities used traditional indigenous knowledge as a foundation f ...
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#1267622021-01-29
Indigenous tribe that worships tigers helps protect the species
Spirituality isn't usually considered a factor in conservation efforts. But indigenous peoples who worship wildlife may be helping protect endangered species from extinction.
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#1267722021-01-29
How indigenous food systems can help build resilience to impacts of COVID-19 pandemic
The impacts of COVID-19 are disproportionately devastating to indigenous peoples around the world. In many cases, their indigenous food systems have been a source of resilience. This is the focus of the biannual Indigenous Peoples’ Forum this year, where representatives from Indigenous Peoples’ ...
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#1268202021-02-02
Scientists must learn how to interact with Indigenous people
Last February, Jesus Rotieroke and I sat together chewing on our thoughts (in the form of coca-based mambe) after spending a sweltering day in the family chagra harvesting cassava and plantains.
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#1268502021-02-03
Indigenous Peoples are critical to build a more sustainable post-pandemic world, says IFAD President
Indigenous Peoples have suffered disproportionately from the economic impacts of COVID-19, yet they hold essential knowledge for rebuilding a more sustainable and resilient post-pandemic world, free of poverty and hunger, said Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the UN’s International Fund for Agri ...
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#1268662021-02-04
It’s time for an Indigenous voice in conservation
The time for dancing around Australia’s significant environmental challenges is over. Graeme Samuel, in his review of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act released on Thursday, didn’t mince words. Ineffective. Unacceptable. Continual decline. Piecemeal approach.
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#1268702021-02-04
OPINION: We can’t tackle climate change without indigenous people
Last month, climate change advocates heaved a sigh of relief as President Joe Biden recommitted the United States to the Paris Agreement on climate change, fulfilling one of the major promises of his campaign within hours of his inauguration. The return to the Paris Agreement is an important, if ...
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#1268852021-02-04
UK is helping indigenous communities in Peten to protect and use their ancient traditional medicine
The British Ambassador in Guatemala, Nick Whittingham, met with the Mayan Council of Indigenous Spiritual Leaders of the Southern Peten, ACGERS, who are using the benefits of ancient traditional medicine as part of a UK funded project.
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#1269452021-02-09
Meet the Indigenous scientist charting the future of fisheries
Like most salmon scientists, Andrea Reid spends months each year searching for the iconic fish in salty estuaries and along the silty riverbanks of B.C.’s glacial torrents.
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#1269562021-02-10
Brazil flower-gatherers win acclaim: ‘Efficient, long-lasting, resilient’
For three centuries communities of “flower-gatherers” have lived self-reliantly in the Serra do Espinhaço, a mountain range bordering Brazil’s Cerrado savanna on its east. Many are descended from former slaves, but they’ve mingled with Indigenous and descendants of Portuguese migrants.
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#1269602021-02-10
Traditional Fishers – The Unsung Heroes Of Ocean Conservation
Ocean conservation has too long marginalized the very people best placed to lead the most powerful change: traditional fishing communities. Alasdair Harris, founder of Blue Ventures, talks to Ashoka’s Pip Wheaton, about how empowering the people who know the ecosystems best provides a myriad of ...
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#1270992021-02-16
‘Indigenous People Respect All Species’
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist and member of Chad’s pastoralist Mbororo community who believes in twinning traditional knowledge with science to tackle ecosystem challenges.
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#1271272021-02-17
Pay heed to indigenous peoples to tackle climate change
Around 370 million indigenous peoples live on 22% of the world’s land surface. This 22% holds 80% of the earth’s biodiversity. It is estimated that more than 20% of the carbon stored in forests is found in land managed by indigenous peoples. They are preserving vital carbon sinks that play a cri ...
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#1271452021-02-17
The Caribou Guardians
HIGH ON A FORESTED MOUNTAIN in northern British Columbia, in the traditional territory of the West Moberly Dunne-za First Nations (WMFN) and Saulteau First Nations (SFN), Starr Gauthier is on patrol with a twelve-gauge shotgun slung over her shoulder and a laptop bag in hand. Starr is a Caribou ...
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#1271722021-02-18
Indigenous peoples face rise in rights abuses during pandemic, report finds
Indigenous communities in some of the world’s most forested tropical countries have faced a wave of human rights abuses during the Covid-19 pandemic as governments prioritise extractive industries in economic recovery plans, according to a new report.
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#1272962021-02-23
“Securing Indigenous guardianship of vital ecosystems”: Q&A with Nia Tero CEO Peter Seligmann
One of the dominant trends in conservation over the past 20 years has been growing recognition of the contributions Indigenous peoples have made toward conservationists’ goals of protecting biodiversity, wild places, and ecosystem functions.
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#1272972021-02-23
The Limits of Eden
After two hours’ travel through driving rain, Lucio arrived in the village with his two wives and children aboard a raft, all soaked to the skin. Four weeks earlier, they had decided to leave their nomadic life in the high reaches of the River Comerjali, where hundreds of Machiguenga and Mashco- ...
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#1273162021-02-24
Displaced from the hills: Livelihoods of tribal communities in Eastern Ghats under threat
India’s forest-dwelling communities have since antiquity utilised various biodiversity elements in forests to augment their livelihoods and fortify their nutritional security. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the hilly region of the Eastern Ghats, spread along India’s east coast in Odi ...
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#1273342021-02-24
In Brazil, an indigenous woman joins Bolsonaro in fight for mining
Irisnaide Silva is female, Brazilian and indigenous. And for once, in her view, she is being heard. For decades her family picked and panned the borderland near Venezuela, scouring the hills for diamonds and gold.
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#1273452021-02-25
Tribes Could Play a Crucial Role in Achieving a Bold New Conservation Goal
An emerging effort to protect 30 percent of the country's land and water is an opportunity to strengthen tribal sovereignty and heed Indigenous ecological knowledge, experts say.
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#1273762021-02-26
Indigenous groups welcome Biden-Trudeau nature conservation roadmap
Indigenous groups in Canada are welcoming plans by Ottawa and Washington to partner with Indigenous Nations across Canada and the United States to meet their climate change goals and protect nature.
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#1274062021-03-01
Assessment identifies cultural sites in biodiversity project
The Natural Resource Management (NRM) team and I have recently been working with landholders and local Aboriginal community members to conduct Aboriginal Cultural Values Impact Assessments as part of the Biodiversity on Farm project.
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#1275092021-03-04
The World’s Largest Intact Forest Is In Danger. Here’s How To Save It.
Iris Catholique has livedfor 30 years in what is now the Thaidene Nëné Indigenous Protected Area. Straddling the tree line between the boreal forest and the tundra, this swath of old-growth spruce forests, waterfalls, deep freshwater lakes and ancient ice sheets is where both her sons had their ...
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#1275442021-03-05
A pervasive threat to biodiversity and human security
Indigenous knowledge is important for ecological, economic and social sustainability. However, the instruments of ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ (IPRs) have overridden the authority of local communities to use traditional and indigenous knowledge in biosphere. In spite of the fact that indigenou ...
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#1275572021-03-05
Indigenous knowledge systems can provide solutions to environmental problems
Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) play a critical role in natural resources management in our country especially in the communal areas. It encompasses local technologies, innovations, know-how, skills, practices and beliefs uniting local people to conserve natural resources and their cultural v ...
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#1275602021-03-05
‘The river was stolen from us’: a tribe's battle to retake the Skagit River
Scott Schuyler doesn’t need to see the Skagit River to know something is wrong. As he walks down the river’s steep embankment, wet rock and moss under each step, he can hear the problem. “The river should be singing to us right now, it should be free flowing,” Schuyler says as cold February rain ...
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#1276042021-03-08
Preserve, revive, restore: Indian ponds spring back to life
It was only when the buffaloes disappeared from an almost-dry pond in Saligao, in Goa, that residents hatched a community plan to revive it — one now seen as a model for local efforts to shore up India’s precarious water supplies.
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#1276212021-03-09
Ethnobotanical survey enlightens traditional knowledge, use and conservation of plants in Kenya
An ethnobotanical survey conducted in Tharaka-Nithi County in Kenya has revealed high traditional knowledge of plant resources held by the residents. This is the first study ever done in all the regions of the county, according to researchers from the Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC) ...
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#1276552021-03-10
Bananas, indigenous knowledge, and GMOs
Biotechnology, indigenous knowledge, climate change and banana trees. This week, Africa Science Focus sits down with United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity executive secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema to discuss biodiversity and environment on the continent.
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#1276582021-03-10
Similipal forest fires put Odisha’s Lodha tribe in jeopardy
Forest fires have been ravaging the Simlipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district for over a fortnight. The rich flora and fauna are facing impending danger as the fire entered the core areas recently. However, several tribal communities around the periphery areas of Simlipal are worrie ...
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#1276892021-03-15
Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna
Since Lucely Pio was a little girl, she has been collecting medicinal plants in the Cerrado, Brazil’s tropical savanna. At 5, she walked through the grasslands and forests of the Cerrado with her grandmother, a midwife and healer, who taught her about where to find and how to harvest the thousan ...
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#1277042021-03-16
Special brew: eco-friendly Peruvian coffee leaves others in the shade
Deep within the Peruvian cloud forests, a six-hour drive from the town of Satipo, the remote Mayni community is busy growing organic coffee beneath the canopy of the native forest in order to preserve the rich mosaic of life there.
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#1277052021-03-16
Thailand’s Indigenous Peoples fight for ‘land of our heart’ (commentary)
On Sept. 3, 2019, the remains of Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, a Karen environmental and community rights defender who was disappeared in 2014, were found in an oil drum submerged under the Kaeng Krachan dam suspension bridge in Phetchaburi, Thailand.
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#1277192021-03-16
Reform, restitution, justice: UN report suggests host of measures to protect indigenous rights
A recent report by the United Nations called upon governments, conservation organisations and business corporations to reform structures, compensate and restitute as well as administer justice for the betterment of indigenous peoples. It called on countries to create and reform government struct ...
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#1277622021-03-22
[Interview] Nicolas Salazar Sutil: placing trees and indigenous knowledge at the centre of future healing
If trees on our earth could mobilise, fighting for life would be the way forward, says Nicolas Salazar Sutil, the founder and director of Forest Guardians, an independent organisation that places the knowledge of indigenous peoples at the center of our future healing.
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#1278042021-03-23
‘Like losing half the territory.’ Waorani struggle with loss of elder, and of land to oil (commentary)
Indigenous elders play a key role in the protection of their culture and livelihoods. A death of an elder threatens global conservation efforts since Indigenous livelihoods and knowledge represent key elements to understand and fight environmental degradation.