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#1213872019-06-25
'Historic moment' for indigenous people at climate talks, new climate leader says
Climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa has just been elected to head the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in climate talks.
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#1307462021-10-13
'Nature is not a commodity': Can the world learn from indigenous food systems, before they are lost?
Fabian Jimbijti sometimes walks three days to find food for his community. He treks across mountains to collect salt from a sacred spring deep in the jungle, wades into rivers to catch eels, and forages the forest floor for herbs and wild edibles.
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#1218692019-08-13
'You protect what you love': Why biodiversity thrives on Indigenous-managed lands
Recent study finds that number of unique species is 40% greater on protected land in Canada
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#1231672019-11-28
11th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity
The last time I was together with many of you, in Nairobi just a few months ago, we spoke about the importance of the task ahead as you set the direction for the Convention on Biological Diversity after 2020.
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#1238632020-01-22
18 Organizations Protecting Biodiversity in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico
The “Four Corners” states of the American Southwest — Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico — are places rich in natural and cultural biodiversity. From deserts to mountains to lakes and rivers, the region is home to more than 400 species of birds and the greatest diversity of mammal species i ...
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#1348872022-06-07
2 Trees, Not 1: Study Confirms What Indigenous People Knew All Along
Scientists have now confirmed that a certain well-known tree in Southeast Asia is actually two species, not one. Indigenous people in Borneo, however, have known this all along.
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#1213842019-06-25
25% of world’s surface can be better protected with rights
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.
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#1229462019-11-11
7 Indigenous Technologies Changing Landscapes
Indigenous ways of managing landscapes have often been framed as the antithesis to progress. But most Indigenous communities hold intimate place-based knowledge, gained across generations, which is an ideal starting point for addressing contemporary challenges such as biodiversity loss, land deg ...
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#1225782019-10-09
A New Bill Could Help Protect the Sacred Seeds of Indigenous People
Clayton Brascoupé has farmed in the red-brown foothills of New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains for more than 45 years. A Mohawk-Anishnaabe originally from a New York reservation, Brascoupé married into the Pueblo of Tesuque tribe and has since planted at least 60 varieties of corns, beans, s ...
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#1333312022-02-18
A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)
The Batwa Indigenous peoples lived in the Kahuzi-Biega forests of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo for centuries before Belgian colonial rule imposed formal change in 1937 with the establishment of the Zoological and Forest Reserve of Mount Kahuzi.
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#1200792019-02-25
A huge land grab is threatening India’s tribal people. They need global help
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.
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#1347902022-05-31
A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries
Indigenous people make up a third of the total number of environmental defenders killed across the globe, despite being a total of 4% of the world’s population, according to a report by Global Witness. The most critical situation is in Colombia, where 117 Indigenous people have been murdered bet ...
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#1226782019-10-15
A native plant is exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and Western conventions
A fight is brewing over ownership of gumby gumby, exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and the Western intellectual property (IP) system. It is part of a broader debate in Australia and globally about how to value and protect traditional knowledge and ensure Indigenous people benefit ...
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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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#1304722021-09-20
A word on the rights of the Amazon’s Quilombola peoples
Selma Dealdina is executive secretary of the National Coordination of Quilombola Rural Black Communities (CONAQ), an organization representing the estimated 5,000 Quilombolas originally settled in Brazil in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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#1347222022-05-25
Aaranyak’s bid to preserve indigenous seed diversity to enrich biodiversity
Indigenous varieties of seeds which have been fast disappearing from the state’s croplands due to invasion of hybrid verities, are key components of the rich bio-diversity in the ethnic-mosaic called Assam.
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#1261622020-12-10
Aboriginal group urges mining 'reset' after ancient site destroyed
Aboriginal landowners have called for a "reset" in Australia's lucrative mining sector after an inquiry pilloried Rio Tinto for blowing up a 46,000-year-old heritage site to expand an iron ore mine.
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#1319812021-11-29
Across the globe, the diversity of language overlaps with that of the natural world
When scientists started to work in the dense pine forests of British Columbia to analyse the DNA of grizzly bears, they discovered three distinct, genetically different groups. The bears were spread across an area of 23,500 square kilometres – land that falls within the territories of the Nuxalk ...
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#1353232022-07-12
Africa is a treasure trove of medicinal plants: here are seven that are popular
Plants have directly contributed to the development of important drugs. The antimalarial treatment artemisinin, pain medication morphine, and cancer chemotherapy taxol are just three examples of drugs derived from plants.
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#1252312020-04-22
Africa: Amid Coronavirus, Let's Not Forget About Indigenous People
Indigenous communities play a critical role in preventing the emergence of diseases and must be involved in the response to the pandemic.. For the first time in living memory, the industrialized world understands what it is to be entirely susceptible to disease, as vulnerable as indigenous peop ...
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#1215952019-07-16
Agroforestry: An ancient ‘indigenous technology’ with wide modern appeal (commentary)
The highly climate- and biodiversity-friendly agricultural practice of agroforestry is now practiced widely around the world, but its roots are deeply indigenous.
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#1298482021-08-09
Alternative Health Care: Indigenous Medicine Of Dimasas
North East India is geographically situated in one of the richest biological reservoirs of the world. Endowed with numerous varieties of flora and fauna, the entire region is an important segment of the Indo-Myanmar biodiversity hotspot, one of the 34 global ones.
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#1261902020-12-11
Amazon community files lawsuit against Chinese firm over gas flaring
Indigenous Waorani from Ecuador's Amazon filed a lawsuit Thursday against state-owned Chinese oil company PetroOriental, accusing it of contaminating their ancestral lands by burning off natural gas from oil wells in a process known as flaring.
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#1347912022-05-31
Amazon frog highlights appropriation of Indigenous knowledge for commercial gain
The Amazonian giant leaf frog, or kambô (Phyllomedusa bicolor) has bulging eyes and bright green skin, and despite its name, is actually quite small. It’s perhaps best known for its skin secretion, a mucous substance with medicinal properties that several Amazonian Indigenous groups have used fo ...
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#1291672021-06-08
Amazon-dwellers lived sustainably for 5,000 years
A study that dug into the history of the Amazon Rainforest has found that indigenous people lived there for millennia with "causing no detectable species losses or disturbances".
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#1337222022-03-07
An Indigenous basket-weaving tradition keeps a Philippine forest alive
Philippines — On a fine day at the onset of the dry season, Sublito Tiblak wakes up very early to the sounds of birds. They’re perched on trees surrounding his home in Kamantian, an upland village tucked in the Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape in the southern part of the Philippines’ Pala ...
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#1321482021-12-13
An Indigenous community in India’s Meghalaya state offers lessons in climate resilience
The Indigenous food system of the Khasi community in Nongtraw village in Meghalaya offers lessons in climate resilience and sustainable food systems, says a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation report.
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#1214562019-07-02
An Indonesian forest community grapples with the arrival of the outside world
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.
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#1336892022-03-03
An environmental scientist points to Indigenous knowledge for sustainability solutions
There is scientific consensus that human civilization is a threat to life on Earth. Efforts are underway to alleviate that threat, but there is much doubt over whether we can turn back our cascading environmental impacts.
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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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#1286542021-05-14
Ancient Indigenous population much larger than previously thought
Innovative studies using a supercomputer have found that the Aboriginal population 60,000 years ago was much larger than previous estimates suggest. Researchers developed a simulation model and used a supercomputer that tested 125 billion potential pathways across the continent and found Aborigi ...
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#1215052019-07-08
Ancient Water System in Peru Could Fix Water Shortages
Sometimes modern problems require ancient solutions.
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#1327202022-01-25
Ancient knowledge is lost when a species disappears. It’s time to let Indigenous people care for their country, their way
Indigenous people across Australia place tremendous cultural and customary value on many species and ecological communities. The very presence of a plant or animal species can trigger an Indigenous person to recall and share knowledge. This is crucial to maintaining culture and managing Country.
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#1198542019-02-08
Ancient spirituality guides a Maya town’s conservation efforts
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 ...
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#1223542019-09-25
Are changing agricultural practices responsible for vanishing happiness in remote Tripura hamlets?
Caught in the transition from shifting cultivation (jhum) to rubber monocropping, members of indigenous communities in a remote district in Tripura – India’s second rubber capital – are “struggling” or “just getting by”, a forthcoming study has claimed.
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#1230832019-11-20
As Animals and Plants Go Extinct, Languages Die Off Too
In the parts of the world where biodiversity is most at risk, words and phrases also face extinction.
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#1350902022-06-28
As Nepal’s tigers thrive, Indigenous knowledge may be key in preventing attacks
On June 6, a 41-year-old woman was attacked by a tiger while she was collecting firewood in a forest in Nepal’s Bardiya district, a key habitat for endangered Bengal tigers (Panthera tigris tigris).
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#1190402018-12-14
Asian Indigenous Peoples’ Intellectual Property Rights On Biodiversity Endangered – OpEd
Indigenous and tribal peoples of Asia, are facing complex threats to their survival as distinct peoples.
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#1193492019-01-11
Asian indigenous peoples’ IPR on biodiversity endangered
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 ...
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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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#1219252019-08-16
At-Risk Indigenous Languages Spotlighted on New Google Earth Platform
The new initiative features recordings of native languages from around the globe
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#1298052021-08-09
August 9 marks International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples 2021
CAIRO – 9 August 2021: More than 476 million Indigenous individuals live in 90 countries, representing 6.2 percent of the world's population. Indigenous peoples are endowed with a great diversity of unique cultures, traditions, languages and knowledge systems. They enjoy an exceptional relations ...
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#1220332019-08-28
Australia mulls ‘offensive marks’ to protect indigenous knowledge
IP Australia has concluded a consultation process over the protection of indigenous knowledge, which could lead to the country introducing a ban on ‘offensive’ trademarks.
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#1302102021-09-01
Australia' s coastal waters are rich in Indigenous cultural heritage, but it remains hidden and under threat
When people arrived in Australia more than 65,000 years ago, they landed on shores that are now deep under water. The first footprints on this continent took place on these now-submerged landscapes .
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#1353792022-07-20
Australian environmental report finally recognizes Indigenous knowledge
In Australia, more than 100 animal species have gone extinct or been placed on endangered lists, ecosystems are plagued by invasive species, temperatures and sea levels rise, marine heatwaves have caused coral bleaching, while devastating floods and wildfires have ravaged the country.
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#1305892021-09-30
Australian state gives world's oldest rainforest to Indigenous group
Queensland, Australia's third most populous state, said on Wednesday it has given ownership of the world's oldest tropical rainforest to a local Indigenous group.
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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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#1338612022-03-31
Best-preserved part of Brazil’s Amazon, home to isolated tribes, faces ‘decimation’
The central Purus River Basin is one of the best-preserved regions of the Brazilian Amazon. But deforestation here, in the state of Amazonas, could clear an area larger than England by 2050, according to a new report by several civil society organizations.
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#1320742021-12-07
Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes
The community’s traditionally self-sufficient and biodiverse diet features 132 species, notably the fe’i banana, a Melanesian specialty that contains 100 times the vitamin A of a typical banana.
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#1213132019-06-14
Big business commercialises Paraguay’s traditional stevia plant
Indigenous communities claim share of profitable global trade as exports to China fall foul of diplomacy