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#1217632019-07-31
Biodiversity highest on Indigenous-managed lands
More than one million plant and animal species worldwide are facing extinction, according to a recent United Nations report.
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#1304062021-09-14
Biodiversity’s Greatest Protectors Need Protection
Indigenous peoples have been conserving ecosystems for millennia. Now the developed world wants to evict them. In the late 19th century Yellowstone, Sequoia and Yosemite became the first of the great U.S. National Parks, described by author and historian Wallace Stegner as America's “best idea.”
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#1340952022-04-14
Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops
In north-eastern New Mexico, traditional Indigenous farming methods are being passed down to protect against the effects of climate crisis.
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#1241132020-02-11
Bolivia: contribution of indigenous people to fighting climate change is hanging by a thread
Earth’s forests oxygenate the atmosphere and store vast quantities of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO₂). But research suggests that the health of these vast ecosystems in large part depends on the work of indigenous people.
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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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#1210352019-05-13
Brazil indigenous chief Raoni goes to Europe in defense of Amazon
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.
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#1244222020-02-28
Brazilian tribespeople grow cacao to help their forests
Gold or or chocolate? Some indigenous tribes in the Amazon have made their choice and their environment is likely to benefit as a result.
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#1341982022-04-27
Bridging knowledges for land and water stewardship
What happens when Indigenous People lead resource decision-making on their own terms, across their own traditional territories? Communities in Tanzania and Canada are documenting and sharing their experiences, supported by a University of Victoria Department of Geography project that illustrates ...
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#1237092020-01-14
Bushfires Are 'Obliterating the Cultural Memory' of Australia's Aboriginal People
The deadly, ongoing bushfires in Australia have been burning for months. Around Christmas, however, the glittering orange flames grew closer to the community of East Gippsland in eastern Victoria, home to more than 46,000 people. Alice Pepper, an indigenous community organizer with the Gunaikurn ...
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#1331512022-02-14
By Cultivating Seaweed, Indigenous Communities Restore Connection to the Ocean
In many places, Indigenous communities are working to restore seaweed species that have been traditional food sources or supported traditional diets.
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#1318932021-11-24
COP26 Strengthens Role of Indigenous Experts and Stewardship of Nature
At the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow in November, direct and unprecedented engagement between indigenous peoples, local communities and governments helped unlock sustainable and resilient ways to achieve the Paris Agreement commitments and reverse biodiversity decline. For the fi ...
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#1249082020-03-26
COVID-19 crisis tells world what Indigenous Peoples have been saying for thousands of years
COVID-19 and other health endemics are directly connected to climate change and deforestation, according to Indigenous leaders from around the world who gathered on March 13, in New York City, for a panel on Indigenous rights, deforestation and related health endemics.
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#1247302020-03-17
COVID-19 emerged due to forest destruction: indigenous leaders
The destruction of forests that encourages climate change also encourages the emergence of diseases like the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), indigenous leaders, who recently met in New York, said. Loss of habitat has brought wild animals into closer contact with humans and domesticated ani ...
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#1239642020-01-27
Cacao not gold: ‘chocolate trees’ offer future to Amazon tribes
The villagers walk down the grassy landing strip, past the wooden hut housing the health post and into the thick forest, pointing out the seedlings they planted along the way.
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#1289062021-05-31
Climate change and indigenous peoples, afro-descendants and migrants examined at global seminar
Indigenous peoples and afro-descendants’ knowledge, innovations and resilience capacities are essential for the transformation to a more sustainable and climate-friendly world and should be included in the policy-making processes, agreed the High-Level Seminar convened today by the Food and Agri ...
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#1302292021-09-02
Climate change threatens traditional extractive communities in the Amazon
Traditional peoples in the Amazon are already experiencing the scientific community’s warnings that rising temperatures will impact those who depend on the forest for their livelihood.
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#1322122021-12-17
Climate change, poor housing fuelling energy concerns for First Nations communities
More than 90 per cent of households surveyed in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory had their electricity disconnected over a 12-month period, according to a new study investigating the link between the problem and extreme temperatures.
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#1336452022-03-02
Climate crisis: Indigenous groups both victims and saviours
Long portrayed as victims of climate change, indigenous peoples who have struggled for years to protect ancestral lands and ways of life from destruction are finally being recognised as playing an important role in defending precious environments.
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#1300862021-08-20
Coastal First Nations take steps to protect wild waters of Great Bear Rainforest
A coalition of coastal First Nations has achieved a significant step towards protecting the wild shores and waters of the Great Bear Rainforest on B.C’s central coast.
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#1236922020-01-13
Colombian Scientist Wins Award For Lifelong Lizard Studies
Last December, an important representation in the Colombian population has been announced, what with the announcement of biologist Jhan Salazar as the winner of the Young Afro-Colombian 2019.
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#1310652021-10-22
Conservation by eliminating human presence is a flawed construct: study
“Pristine wilderness” — a natural zone free of people — as a conservation idea is an erroneous construct, a new study says. It fails to reflect the reality of how many high-value biodiverse landscapes have operated for millennia.
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#1322092021-12-17
Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding
Research shows that national governments, investors and development organizations consider direct funding to Indigenous-led organizations as too risky, though a new report shows that Indigenous communities with good project management skills exist.
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#1196952019-01-31
Contentious salmon stocking plan can't happen without First Nations support: scientist
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."
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#1260742020-12-08
Coronavirus: India's indigenous tribes find Covid-19 remedies in forests
A few weeks ago, Mukteshwar Kalo, a member of the Kondh tribe in eastern India, suddenly came down with a fever, cough and aches.Nearly anywhere else, these symptoms would be enough to raise fears of Covid-19, but 58-year-old Kalo, who lives in Surupa village in the state of Odisha, was not worried
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#1247842020-03-20
Could the Coronavirus Pandemic have been Avoided if the World Listened to Indigenous Leaders?
Mina Setra remembers the story clearly. As a Dayak Pompakng indigenous person from Indonesia, when visitors from the city who came into her community; brought bottled water with them because they were worried about the water not being suitable for drinking.
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#1250342020-04-08
Covid-19: Why is it so important to protect indigenous territories?
The colonization of America was one of the most significant chapters in the recent history of human civilization. Although the wars of conquest and the process of exploitation of indigenous populations are well known, little is said about the impact that the epidemiological factor had on it, and ...
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#1189882018-12-12
Cree Nation identifies 30 per cent of its territory in conservation wish list
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 ...
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#1214882019-07-05
Data tool helps indigenous people navigate their rights
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.
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#1290522021-06-04
Decline in languages leads to decline in Indigenous biological knowledge
Around the world, more than 7,000 languages are spoken, most of them by small populations of speakers in the tropics. Papua New Guinea (PNG), where nine million people speak 850 languages, is the most linguistically diverse place on Earth.
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#1324932022-01-14
Decolonizing Conservation: Native Communities Know How to Protect Nature
This piece originally appeared in Nexus Media. It is republished here with permission. Jessica Hernandez found her way to conservation science and environmental justice through her grandmother—and her knowledge about the natural world, accumulated over generations.
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#1210312019-05-13
Defending the defenders: tropical forests in the front line
“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 ...
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#1334322022-02-22
Deforestation threat to Amazon indigenous areas if protected status changed - report
Areas of Amazon rainforest with a combined area the size of England could be threatened by new mining and deforestation, a new report claims.
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#1311952021-10-27
Deprived of their forests, Uganda’s Batwa adapt their sustainable practices
It’s been three decades since the Ugandan government evicted the Batwa people, an Indigenous group commonly known as Pygmies, from their forest lands. The reason for their displacement was to create national parks aimed at protecting biodiversity and promoting tourism.
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#1252872020-04-28
Disappearance of animal species takes mental, cultural and material toll on humans
For thousands of years, indigenous hunting societies have subsisted on specific animals for their survival. How have these hunter-gatherers been affected when these animals migrate or go extinct?
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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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#1282192021-04-22
Earth Day — A case for traditional knowledge to mitigate the planetary crisis
Conservation is woven into the daily life of traditional communities and indigenous people that depend upon or live with nature for their survival and cultural practices. We can learn from these communities. Careful promotion and protection of traditional knowledge could be of assistance as we s ...
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#1252522020-04-22
Earth Day: Meet the original eco warriors protecting the planet
Indigenous people account for less than 5% of the world's population - but they support or protect 80% of the planet's biodiversity. They are often the most vulnerable to climate change, but have developed systems built on thousands of years of land management, sustainability, and climate adapti ...
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#1312682021-10-28
Ecological agriculture: healthy system that’s good for people and forest
Raimundo Nonato de Oliveira is Chief Puraka. The name, of Tupi origin, comes from an electric fish strong enough to kill a horse. Despite his name, Puraka is a calm and slow-spoken man. Leader of one of the 28 villages in the Caititu Indigenous Land, in Lábrea, the south of Amazonas state, he an ...
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#1201242019-02-26
Ecological restoration projects involving indigenous peoples prove more successful
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 ...
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#1283292021-04-28
Ecologists working with tribal partners to preserve culturally significant ecosystems and species
For the past few months, Megan Jennings and Lluvia Flores-Renteria have been collecting acorns from Indian reservations, storing them at home in their refrigerators to keep them fresh and germinating them in greenhouses.
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#1339702022-04-11
Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation
An almost invisible trail snakes through thick buzzing forest leading to a chakra, an ancestral food garden in the Kichwa Cuya community located in Ecuador’s largest province, Pastaza
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#1298472021-08-09
Empowering Indigenous Peoples to manage and protect their local forests
Indigenous Peoples know their lands better than anyone, and nothing can replace their expertise in forest conservation. That’s why BirdLife and Partners are providing technical training and support for Indigenous Peoples, so that they can manage and protect their local forests for generations to ...
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#1316822021-11-15
Empty words, no action: Cop26 has failed First Nations people
Doors were slammed shut on Indigenous people in Glasgow, literally and figuratively. Now it’s time not just to open them, but to tear them down
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#1295892021-07-21
Entrepreneurial climate change spirit at tribal reservation
“We Native people have always been resilient and adaptive people: assimilation, genocide, and reorganizing have not stopped us. The climate crisis is different: I fear it threatens our existence like nothing else we have ever seen.
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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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#1328312022-02-01
Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being
As a best-selling author, the co-founder of the award-winning Amazon Conservation Team, and an acclaimed public speaker, Mark Plotkin is one of the world’s most prominent rainforest ethnobotanists and conservationists. Plotkin has worked closely with Indigenous communities–including traditional ...
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#1304692021-09-20
Extinction of indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants
“Every time a language disappears, a speaking voice also disappears, a way to make sense of reality disappears, a way to interact with nature disappears, a way to describe and name animals and plants disappears,” says Jordi Bascompte, researcher in the Department of Evolutional Biology and Envir ...
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#1341992022-04-27
Extractive projects cause irreparable harm to indigenous cultures, UN forum told
The explosive growth of extractive operations around the world often plays out on indigenous people’s lands without their consent, causing irreparable harm to their livelihoods, cultures, languages and lives, speakers told the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Monday, as it opened its 2022 ...
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#1286792021-05-17
Fabled land or false narrative: what is the modern outback?
The outback looms large in Australia’s collective mythology. For some it’s a fabled place of extreme beauty and harshness that forged the Australian character. But for others this is a false narrative – as the author Alexis Wright puts it, a story “Australia chose to tell itself and wanted to be ...
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#1332482022-02-16
Field school teaches young Indigenous Indonesians how to care for their forests
Haeriah is a young homemaker and a member of the Marena Indigenous community on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Although she’s lived all her life near her community’s ancestral forest, Haeriah, like many others around her age, didn’t learn about the forest growing up because for several gener ...