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#1335542022-02-25
Indigenous knowledge ‘gives us a much richer picture’: Q&A with Māori researcher Ocean Mercier
Small islands, big seascapes: that’s how many Pacific Ocean nations are characterized. Aotearoa New Zealand, a country about the size of the U.K. but with the world’s fourth-largest maritime area, is no exception.
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#1334822022-02-24
Sabino Gualinga, Amazon shaman and defender of the ‘living forest,’ passes away
Its a sad moment for any Indigenous community when spiritual leaders, those who hold the knowledge of sacred ceremonies and traditions, pass away from this world.
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#1335182022-02-24
Indigenous and Western forest education find harmony at the Wildwood ecoforest
What happens when you bring together Indigenous wisdom and Western science from the forest? Maybe, something like magic. That’s what educators are learning at the Wildwood ecoforest, on Stz’uminus and Snuneymuxw territory.
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#1334222022-02-22
Local communities around the globe warn of the disappearance of wild edible plants
Local and Indigenous communities warn of a significant decrease in the abundance of wild edible plants and mushrooms that negatively impacts their nutrition and food security, from local to global scales.
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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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#1333802022-02-21
‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo
A trio of bison has gathered around a fourth animal’s carcass, and Jimmy Doyle is worried. “I really hope we’re not on the brink of some disease outbreak,” said Doyle, who manages the Wolakota Buffalo Range here in a remote corner of south-western South Dakota in one of the country’s poorest cou ...
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#1333302022-02-18
Indigenous Comcáac turtle group saves sea turtles in Mexico’s Gulf of California
Mayra Estrella’s father always spoke to her about sea turtles. Growing up, she remembers hearing stories linking a pair of turtles to the very existence of the Comcáac people, the Indigenous people of which she and her father belong.
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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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#1332342022-02-16
What is biocultural diversity, and why does it matter?
What do the English concept of the countryside, the French paysage, the Spanish dehesas and Australian Aboriginal country have in common?
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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 ...
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#1332072022-02-15
Traditional Knowledge of Plant Foods and Medicines
In the current reality of lockdowns and isolation, people are turning to plants as a lifeline and way to connect with nature by collecting houseplants and building outdoor gardens. For Indigenous Peoples worldwide, connections with plants are not a recent trend—sacred and cultural connections to ...
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#1332082022-02-15
In Canada, Indigenous communities and scientists collaborate on marine research
Standing on the snow-covered banks of the Shubenacadie River in Canada’s easternmost province, Nova Scotia, Alanna Sylbiloy tosses a wire trap into the icy water flowing past, in search of a small fish known as a tomcod.
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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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#1331162022-02-11
In Russian north, indigenous hunters spear whales to feed their village
Hunting whales with harpoons is an ancient tradition that the indigenous Chukchi people of Russia’s frozen northeast have retained to this day, but global warming is forcing changes to their precarious way of life.
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#1331202022-02-11
Q&A: Victor Steffensen, 48, author, filmmaker
Since the 2019-20 bushfires you’ve combined your creative talents and cultural knowledge to advocate for traditional burning. Has progress been made?
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#1330842022-02-10
Podcast: Kelp, condors and Indigenous conservation
The importance of Indigenous stewardship and traditional ecological knowledge is increasingly recognized as vital to the future of conservation and the preservation of life on this planet. Mongabay frequently reports on Indigenous-led conservation initiatives, and we wanted to take a closer look ...
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#1330012022-02-08
Indigenous communities of Jharkhand have long defended their native forests from exploitation
A decade's-long save-the-forest movement in Bokaro leads the fight in protecting rich, biodiverse, and ecologically-sensitive sub-tropical forests from commercial exploitation and environmental devastation while allowing indigenous peoples to thrive off their land.
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#1329722022-02-07
Giving new life to old languages in Australia
When we lose a language, we can also lose medicine and dietary knowledge, stories of survival through geological, environmental, climate and political change, and traditions orally transmitted over tens of thousands of years.
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#1329782022-02-07
These Indigenous women are being trained to take care of coral reefs
A group of Indigenous women is being trained to safeguard coral reefs under threat from climate change. "The Sea Women of Melanesia is a team of women from Melanesia, who are passionate about marine conservation and who are willing to go back to their community to set up marine reserves, " says ...
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#1329792022-02-07
Researchers discover origins of species biodiversity on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Chinese researchers have discovered geographical isolation, natural selection, and hybridization could have together promoted the species diversification of numerous plant genera on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
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#1329362022-02-04
Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest
The ongoing drought in Paraguay, now moving into its third year, has put increasing pressure on conservation efforts throughout the country to support local communities and protect wildlife.
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#1329032022-02-03
Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests
Cecilia Rivas remembers Tukupu as a place to live freely. The dwellings of the Indigenous Kariña community, spread out under the shade of the trees in the Imataca Forest Reserve, located in the south-east of Venezuela, was where her grandparents and parents were born.
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#1328932022-02-02
Indigenous knowledge a way to protect valuable wetlands
Iran is rich in terms of having a variety of wetlands due to its climatic diversity. In the world, the total number of wetlands is classified into 42 types, of which 41 types exist in the country.
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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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#1328112022-01-31
Food security: Losing indigenous knowledge on climate change poses greatest risk – Experts
Climate change conversations are very complex and as a result this influences low contribution in addressing the climate crisis in Africa. And this, according to experts, has affected food production in the continent.
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#1327912022-01-28
Review utilizes Indigenous knowledge
A joint federal and provincial assessment of the environmental, economic, social and cultural impacts of mining in the Ring of Fire mineral belt will seek to meld traditional Indigenous knowledge of the area with modern science.
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#31382022-01-27
Selected representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities to receive funding for their participation in the resumed sessions of the Twenty-fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, the Third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation and the Third meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/ML/TMc/QC/TM/90008 (2022-007)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, TK Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities organizations, and other relevant organizations
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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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#1326322022-01-19
Whanganui River tribes draw global focus to indigenous knowledge
A Māori development leader says the Whanganui River tribes have helped bring attention to global perspectives on indigenous knowledge, collaboration and trade.
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#1325992022-01-18
Indigenous lore and the fire knowledge we ignore
As long as fire strategy prioritises suppression, the valuabble knowledge of Indigenous people will continue to be sidelined.
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#1325632022-01-17
West Bengal biodiversity board attempts to bring back traditional crop varieties
The West Bengal Biodiversity Board (WBBB) has prepared People’s Biodiversity Registers containing comprehensive account of local bio-resources along with related traditional knowledge and practices of the area. Efforts are now on to come up with at least five ‘seed banks’ across the state.
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#1324842022-01-14
Zimbabwean women leverage traditional knowledge to sustain livelihoods
Early in the morning in Domboshava, a village near Harare, two women were gathering herbs in a lush green forest. A branch at a time, the women carefully pruned the shrubs, making sure they leave the plants in good health.
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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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#1324562022-01-12
Ottawa’s new science grant recipients to tackle complex challenges, including Indigenous-led solutions to stem biodiversity loss
Indigenous solutions for conserving nature while promoting health; machines for preserving organs donated for transplants; strategies for turning discarded ocean byproducts into opportunities for coastal communities.
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#1323632022-01-07
Indigenous food systems can provide game-changing solutions for humankind (commentary)
Humanity has developed incredible technologies and processes to produce enough food on the planet to feed the entire population. From the Green Revolution to the digitalization of agriculture, the technologies developed have aimed to boost food production across the globe.
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#1323762022-01-07
Shatavari to Queen Sago: How We Used Rare Forest Produce to Double Tribal Incomes
In Kerala, amid the Chalakudy and Karuvannur River basin, dwell the indigenous tribes of Kadar, Malayar, and Muthuvar. These tribal groups sustain mainly through forest produce. For the last four years, ecologist Dr Manju Vasudevan has worked closely with these communities to secure their liveli ...
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#1323102022-01-05
Rocky road: Paraguay’s new Chaco highway threatens rare forest and last of the Ayoreo people
In 1972, Catholic missionaries entered the Chaco forest of northern Paraguay and forced Oscar Pisoraja’s family, and their nomadic Ayoreo people, to leave with them. Many perished from thirst on the long march south.
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#1322372021-12-20
What COP26 means for indigenous communities of Eastern Himalayas
Climate change is already here in North East India. Governments in the region must invest heavily in creating climate resilient, nature-regenerative economies by rewilding its forests and nurturing the transition to climate-resilient practices like agroforestry.
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#1322032021-12-17
Govt introduces amendment bill, decriminalising use of biological resources by 'vaids', 'hakims' and AYUSH practitioners
The government on Thursday in Lok Sabha introduced the Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 which seeks to facilitate fast-tracking of research, encourage the Indian system of medicine, and decriminalize certain provisions for use of traditional knowledge of such resources including seeds ...
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#1322072021-12-17
Green group, tribe sue US land agency over Nevada geothermal plant
A Native American tribe and an environmental group have sued the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), accusing the agency of greenlighting a geothermal power plant in western Nevada based on a botched environmental review.
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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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#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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#1321772021-12-15
First Nations unite to fight industrial exploitation of Australia’s Martuwarra
The Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, one of the country’s most ecologically and culturally significant waterways, is facing proposals of further agriculture and mining development, including irrigation and fracking.
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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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#31302021-12-10
“Training Manual for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on the Convention on Biological Diversity”
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/TMc/QC/TM/90030 (2021-084)
To: CBD Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points,
international organizations, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant organizations
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#1321192021-12-09
Indigenous lands have less deforestation than state-managed protected areas in most of tropics
Areas managed by Indigenous peoples cover more than 25% of the world’s land and overlap with 40% of protected areas globally. Studies in Nicaragua and Brazil have found that Indigenous communities with ownership of their land have lower rates of deforestation than neighbouring areas. Often, defo ...
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#1320992021-12-08
In southern Colombia, Indigenous groups fish and farm with the floods
The Tikuna, Cocama and Yagua peoples in southern Colombia live on a two-pronged sustainable food system that involves artisanal fishing and communal planting synchronized with the different flooding seasons.
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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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#1320652021-12-06
To save the planet, protect its stewards
Indigenous people took center stage on the climate summit, but how can they and the forests be real winners, if nations still are reluctant to accept the fundamental rights for them?
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#1320402021-12-03
New science: deep-sea hotspot, Indigenous ocean conservation and more
Protecting nature starts with science. Here’s a roundup of recent research published by Conservation International experts.