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#1239792020-01-28
Old Growth Forests Are Vital to Indigenous Cultures. We Need to Protect What’s Left
The B.C. government is reviewing its policies to manage the province’s old growth forests and seeking public input.This should be the opportunity for the government to start righting the mistakes of the past.
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#1240082020-01-29
Trust our expertise or face catastrophe, Amazon peoples warn on environment
Ecosystems will continue to collapse around the world unless humanity listens to the expertise of indigenous communities on how to live alongside nature, a prominent Amazon leader has warned.
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#1240892020-02-05
For the First Time the Indigenous People of the Americas Meet in Mexico
It will be the first international meeting of indigenous peoples of the American continent. The central theme of the event will be the role of indigenous women and youth in the protection of traditional food systems.
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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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#1241242020-02-11
How Native Tribes Are Taking the Lead on Planning for Climate Change
With their deep ties to the land and reliance on fishing, hunting, and gathering, indigenous tribes are especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Now, native communities across North America are stepping up to adopt climate action plans to protect their way of life.
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#1241502020-02-13
Indigenous-led community efforts redefine forest management in Kenya
An organization in Kenya is making a big impact through its support for forest-related projects initiated by local communities, according to the UN-REDD Programme.
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#1241662020-02-14
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
Species are being lost at about a thousand times the natural rate of extinction. This is faster than at any other period in human history. Ecosystems — the vital systems on which all life depends — are being degraded across the globe.
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#1241812020-02-14
Indigenous Lands Ace Biodiversity Measurements
Scientists, conservation organizations and governments looking to stem the tide of extinction regularly center of attention efforts on safe spaces comparable to nationwide parks and flora and fauna preserves. However with as many as 1,000,000 species in danger, this technique will not be suffici ...
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#1243242020-02-24
Forests that heal: Medicinal plants as an ecosystem service
Five trillion US dollars. That’s how much the overall international trade in medicinal plants and their products alone is expected to amount to by the year 2050. Estimates, as far as medicinal plants go, are many.
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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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#1245362020-03-05
Indigenous Innovations Provide Blueprint for Climate-Resilient Design
A new book, Lo—TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, highlights centuries-old technologies that provide a powerful toolkit for sustainable architecture and design in the modern age.
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#1246102020-03-10
The world’s best fire management system is in northern Australia, and it’s led by Indigenous land managers
The tropical savannas of northern Australia are among the most fire-prone regions in the world. On average, they account for 70% of the area affected by fire each year in Australia.
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#1246382020-03-11
With most biodiversity lying on indigenous land, their leadership is crucial'
‘In traditional times there were no borders like now — no states and territories, no native title borders and different groups drawing lines. This project removes those borders so that we can work together to keep country and people healthy.”
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#1247292020-03-17
Request for Submissions to the Global Report of Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge on Climate Change 2020
Indigenous issues in high mountain areas is a primary raison d’etre for GlabierHub and has been since the site began in 2015. GlacierHub strives to communicate the essentiality of indigenous knowledge to climate crisis solutions and sustainable practices related to glacier communities. With that ...
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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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#1247312020-03-17
Green Violence: ‘Eco-Guards’ Are Abusing Indigenous Groups in Africa
In recent years, conservation groups such as WWF have been embroiled in controversy as the poorly trained “eco-guards” these organizations have funded in Africa have been accused of abusing indigenous people in their ancestral territories in national parks and preserves. Last week, a draft repor ...
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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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#1248182020-03-20
The forest is everything': indigenous tribes in India battle to save their home from Adani – in pictures
Australian photographer Brian Cassey visits Hasdeo Arand, one of the largest contiguous stretches of dense forest in central India. The area is rich in biodiversity, containing many threatened species including elephants, leopards and sloth bears. A rash of newly approved mines could further des ...
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#1248592020-03-25
Indigenous Communities Around the World Protecting Biodiversity
Slow Food believes that defending biodiversity also means defending cultural diversity. The rights of indigenous peoples to control their land, to grow food and breed livestock, to hunt, fish and gather according to their own needs and decisions is fundamental in order to protect their livelihoo ...
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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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#1249762020-03-31
Why communities must be at the heart of conserving wildlife, plants and ecosystems
A little more than a year ago, the Haida Nation released the Land-Sea-People plan to manage Gwaii Haanas, off the coast of northern British Columbia, “from mountaintop to seafloor as a single, interconnected ecosystem.”
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#1249772020-03-31
Indigenous people are most vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus in Latin America
The health situation of indigenous peoples due to infectious-contagious diseases is already serious due to its high prevalence and the very poor health service. The coronavirus would further aggravate this situation,” Peruvian anthropologist Beatriz Huertas, who specialises in indigenous peoples ...
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#1249782020-03-31
Indigenous Leaders Issue Plea for COVID Pandemic Protection
Indigenous leaders from across South America on Monday issued a desperate plea for protection against the COVID-19 pandemic, warning that the virus poses an “existential threat” to their communities.
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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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#1250352020-04-08
Indigenous knowledge could reveal ways to weather climate change on islands
Some islands have such low elevation, that mere inches of sea-level rise will flood them, but higher, larger islands will also be affected by changes in climate and an understanding of ancient practices in times of climate change might help populations survive, according to researchers.
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#1250922020-04-16
South American indigenous peoples close territories in response to COVID-19
The first case of a member of an indigenous community in Peru testing positive for Coronavirus was recorded late last month. The person in question, Aurelio Chino, is an indigenous leader who got sick after he traveled to the Netherlands to present a complaint against the oil company Pluspetrol.
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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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#1252322020-04-22
OPINION: For Indigenous Peoples, isolation is our version of social distancing
For the first time in living memory, the industrialized world understands what it is to be entirely susceptible to disease, as vulnerable as Indigenous Peoples once were to diseases brought by outsiders who colonized our lands. As vulnerable as many Indigenous Peoples still are to the COVID 19 p ...
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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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#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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#1253352020-04-29
How indigenous people in the Amazon are coping with the coronavirus pandemic
A 15-year-old boy from a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, near the border with Venezuela, died of COVID-19 on April 9. A member of the 35,000-strong Yanomami people, the boy was the first known death among Brazil's indigenous communities in the current pandemic. There are now growing fears ...
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#1255322020-11-04
Indigenous communities evicted from their ancestral forest lands in Kenya have plans to restore peace and biodiversity to their homelands.
In July this year, in the middle of Kenya’s rainy season, two indigenous communities living in western Kenya were evicted from their ancestral homes. The Ogiek people of the Mau Forest and the Sengwer people of the Embobut Forest were forced to leave by government forest guards, leaving hundreds ...
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#1255612020-11-05
Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon
The Union of Traditional Yage Medics of the Colombian Amazon (UMIYAC) brings together five ethnic groups — the Cofán, Inga, Siona, Coreguaje, and Kamëntsá — who practice spiritual ceremonies for individual and community healing based on ayahuasca, or yagé. But that’s not all that these communit ...
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#1256432020-11-10
Indigenous knowledge influences seagrass restoration
Scientists from The University of Western Australia have partnered with Indigenous rangers in Shark Bay to develop a seagrass restoration program that combines traditional ecological knowledge with genetically informed science.
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#1257852020-11-19
Why indigenous voices must be heard in the global debate about biodiversity
On 30 September, the United Nations held a summit calling for 'urgent action on biodiversity for sustainable development'. The forum, which was convened by the President of the General Assembly, brought together heads of state and other leaders to discuss the global biodiversity framework after ...
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#1257912020-11-19
Indigenous excellence recognised at Territory Natural Resource Management Awards
Celebrating collaboration, technology and culture, the winners of the 2020 Territory Natural Resource Management Awards were announced on Wednesday.
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#1258002020-11-20
Tending the Peruvian Amazon: Planting Seeds of Reciprocity Between Human and Earth
Without a doubt, one of the many durable legacies that the year 2020 will bestow upon humanity is that of a pattern interrupt, a stop sign to globalization’s scorched-earth march towards relentless industrialized productivity.
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#1259162020-12-01
New study shows rights-based conservation as viable path to achieve global biodiversity agenda
With the UN, NGOs and conservationists advocating to place 30 per cent or more of the planet’s terrestrial area under formal conservation by 2030, a new study cautions of the potential costs of using exclusionary conservation approaches to meet those targets.
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#1259232020-12-01
Protecting Indigenous Languages Is Protecting Biodiversity
One million animal and plant species face extinction due to human activity, according to the United Nations. Now, think about cultural production—art and literature that we have invested to address the extinction of just a handful of species (passenger pigeon included). Quite a bit actually. The ...
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#1259802020-12-03
INTERVIEW-Indigenous wisdom protects forests, says prize-winning Myanmar activist
Tapping into indigenous knowledge and involving local communities are the best ways to protect forests and other natural resources to keep climate change in check, a prominent Myanmar activist said on Thursday. Paul Sein Twa, an indigenous Karen who two years ago established a 1.35 million acre ...
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#1260542020-12-07
The Place of African Traditional Medicine in Response to COVID-19 and Beyond
Mr. Martin Onyalo Odhiambo is a traditional herbal practitioner who handles herbal plants to help cure different ailments and diseases in human and animals. Based at the Medicinal Garden at the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi, he works for Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH) as a ...
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#1260552020-12-07
Involving indigenous communities critical to achieving climate change targets
The world is continuously under threat due to climate change that has been occasioned by habitat loss and environmental degradation.
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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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#1260982020-12-09
Looking ahead to the 4th Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform Facilitative Working Group meeting
The third meeting of the Facilitative Working Group (FWG), which was the first official 2020 meeting of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, took place virtually between October 5 and 8.
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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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#1261632020-12-10
Palm oil, coca and gangs close in on Colombia’s Indigenous Nukak Makú
A group of nomadic hunters who once lived deep in the Amazon is today on the brink of physical and cultural extinction. Though their tribal lands are designated as an Indigenous reservation, their forest was long the site of an armed conflict that plunged Colombia into a wave of violence for mor ...
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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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#1261942020-12-11
India: Bio-Piracy Of Traditional Knowledge From India
Traditional knowledge (TK) is knowledge system that is held by the indigenous people, often relating to their surrounding natural environment. When traditional knowledge is used without permission by the researchers, or exploit the cultures they're drawing from – it's called biopiracy.
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#1261962020-12-11
River conservation by an Indigenous community
Rivers are a major source of renewable water, and provide food, jobs and a sense of place and cultural identity for people living in the vicinity. For many Indigenous peoples, rivers are central to how they understand themselves, their origins and their relationships to the rest of nature.
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#1262152020-12-14
Indigenous fishing practices are needed to revive salmon fisheries
Salmon fisheries in the North Pacific are facing multiple challenges, including declining fish populations and climate variability. In a new study from the Portland-based Wild Salmon Center, scientists report that Indigenous fishing practices can help revitalize Pacific salmon fisheries.