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#1218562019-08-09
Finally, the world’s top climate scientists recognize what we have always known ǀ View
A statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land from Indigenous Peoples and local communities from 42 countries spanning 76% of the world’s tropical forests.
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#1213462019-06-18
First Nations have created a robust conservation economy in Great Bear Rainforest: Report
Over the past decade, First Nations have created a robust conservation economy in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest old-growth temperate rainforests left in the world, through investments in sustainable development and environmental stewardship projects that link the health of n ...
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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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#1352342022-07-06
First Nations' ancient fish bones may help us adapt to climate change
The study of 5,000-year-old fish bones on the West Coast is revealing how Indigenous people adapted to warming oceans — information that could shape present day adaptations and fisheries management as the climate crisis advances, University of Victoria researchers say.
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#1352012022-07-05
Five risk-reduction strategies updated with age-old knowledge
Indigenous peoples' understanding of disaster risk uses an enormous dataset -- traditional knowledge and folklore reaching back many generations.
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#1336192022-03-01
Floodplain project taps Indigenous knowledge, drawing international eyes
Around 100 people tuned in last week to the launch of a five-part webinar series to learn how Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, southwest of London, and its partners developed a collaborative approach to floodplain mapping.
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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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#1306042021-09-30
For Costa Rica’s Indigenous Bribri women, agroforestry is an act of resistance and resilience
“How do I say lemon in Bribri language?” ask Andy, 9, and his cousin Sergio, 11, of their grandmother, Marina López. They’re playing among cocoa trees in their grandmother’s field in Watsi, a village in southern Costa Rica’s Caribbean region, where their Indigenous Bribri community maintains its ...
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#1214622019-07-03
For Ecuador’s Sápara, saving the forest means saving their language
NAPO, Ecuador — Gloria Ushigua, president of the Sápara women’s association, stops by a large, thin, spindly tree that looks almost dead, and breaks off a thin branch.
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#1236402020-01-10
For a Sustainable Food System, Look to Seeds
“Our seeds are more than just food for us. Yes, they are nutrition. But they’re also… spirituality,” says Electa Hare-RedCorn, a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and a Yankton descendant. “Each seed has a story and each seed has a prayer.”
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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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#1319592021-11-26
For tradition and nature on the Bijagós Islands, loss of one threatens the other
Communities in the Bijagós Islands off Guinea-Bissau have for generations maintained a close spiritual connection to nature that’s been credited with the archipelago remaining a biodiversity hotspot.
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#1312822021-10-29
Forced Relocation Made Native Americans More Vulnerable to Climate Change, Study Shows
By removing tribes from their ancestral lands and relegating them to smaller plots of marginal land, European settlers in the United States left Native Americans more vulnerable to climate change, new research shows.
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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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#1298442021-08-09
Four essential Indigenous tourism projects that are sustainable for both the land and its people
A large portion of the world’s 350 million Indigenous peoples live in areas of the globe awash with gorgeous scenery, unique traditions, and unparalleled cultural history. This makes them an attractive offer to tour operators and travel companies. But there are many sensitivities and intricacies ...
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#1218392019-08-08
Four in 10 indigenous languages at risk of disappearing, warn UN human rights experts
Of 7,000 indigenous languages spoken today, four in 10 are in danger of disappearing, rights experts said on Wednesday, in a call for a decade of action to reverse the “historic destruction” of age-old dialects.
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#1199352019-02-14
Fourth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum at IFAD
The Fourth Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples’ Forum, organized by IFAD in Rome, took place on February 12th and 13th. First established in 2011, the forum is a permanent process of consultation and dialogue between representatives from indigenous peoples’ institutions and organizations, ...
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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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#1344762022-05-16
From Traditional Practice To Top Climate Solution, Agroecology Gets Growing Attention
From melting ice sheets to tornadoes ravaging New Orleans and wildfires sweeping Texas, it’s ever clearer that the climate crisis is here, now. In its sixth major report since 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conveyed the urgency:
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#1208882019-04-30
From the United Nations to the Arctic: Celebrating Indigenous Languages
Protecting Indigenous languages is important, not only because it allows communities to maintain their traditions and livelihoods, but because languages are intimately tied up with questions of identity, tradition, cultural history, and memory. Perhaps most importantly, they allow knowledge to b ...
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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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#1224452019-10-01
Global Workshop for Indigenous and Local Communities: Biodiversity, Tourism, and the Social Web
The Global Workshop for Indigenous and Local Communities: Biodiversity, Tourism and the Social Web took place October 14, 2012 at the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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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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#1195502019-01-23
Government vows to engage more indigenous groups in forest management
The issue of the Anak Dalam tribe, also known as the Orang Rimba, who traditionally live deep in the forest in Jambi in small nomadic groups, came into the spotlight in the past few years after they were forced to leave their land because of uncontrolled conversion of natural forest.
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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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#1288812021-05-27
Green Oscar 2021 winner Nuklu Phom strives to continue connecting indigineous communities and form Biodiversity Peace Corridor
Church worker Nuklu Phom belongs to the Phom indigenous community in Nagaland in northeast India. He is noted for his work in connecting communities to conserve biodiversity and switch to sustainable livelihoods in his ancestral village. The effort led to the increase in congregations of the lon ...
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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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#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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#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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#1285012021-05-07
Here’s Why Indigenous Economics Is the Key To Saving Nature
Western economics is not only destroying the environment. It is also destroying Indigenous peoples’ holistic development models that ensure balance with nature, and provide alternative paradigms for sustainable development.
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#1288392021-05-26
Hinubog ng panata — a photo essay
Indigenous peoples have long been considered guardians of global biodiversity, who have accumulated intimate knowledge of the ecosystems in which they live. Villanueva’s photo essay shows how development aggression not only threatens indigenous culture that is deeply rooted in land, but also the ...
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#1303652021-09-13
HotSpots H2O: ‘Global Indigenous Agenda’ Calls for Water, Land, and Resource Governance at 2021 IUCN World Congress
Indigenous activists and organizations from around the world met virtually this week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Zoom-based World Conservation Congress, an event that gathers world leaders once every four years to discuss the global challenge of sustainability ...
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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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#1200212019-02-19
How Development Excludes Adivasis
The mainstream development paradigm has aggravated discontent among Adivasi communities. The reasons are not difficult to recognise – it encourages the siege of native resources, drives competition, is surplus-driven, instills private ownership and consequently, is affecting the cultural identit ...
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#1292902021-06-14
How Giving Native Americans Their Land Back Helps Protect Nature
In 1908 the U.S. government seized some 18,000 acres of land from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to create the National Bison Range in the heart of their reservation in the mountain-ringed Mission Valley of western Montana.
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#1204252019-03-19
How Justice for Tribals is Hope for the Environment
Recently, there has been widespread concern about the possibility of a large-scale eviction of those tribal and forest-dweller households which have had their claims rejected under the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA).
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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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#1319782021-11-29
How Sumi Nagas’ traditional knowledge helps them navigate nature’s vagaries
The Sumi tribe of Nagas uses several ecological indicators to facilitate agricultural practices and predict seasonal variation; but this wisdom is vanishing with the passage of time
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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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#1231642019-11-28
How a resurgence in Indigenous governance is leading to better conservation
Far from the old mentality of ‘fortress conservation’ that deemed only empty landscapes as adequately protected, a new era of Indigenous-led conservation is not only better at protecting wild places but embraces the communities and cultures that have stewarded these lands since time immemorial
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#1286052021-05-12
How an Indigenous Scientist Studies Global Change
All it took was one college research trip to Colorado’s Rocky Mountains for Danielle Ignace to know her intended career path in medicine was the wrong fit. After spending a month in the mountains, she quickly learned she wanted to study ecology.
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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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#1299902021-08-16
How indigenous knowledge can help prevent environmental crises
Nemonte Nenquimo has spent years fending off miners, loggers and oil companies intent on developing the Amazon rainforest. The leader of Ecuador’s indigenous Waorani people, she famously fronted a 2019 lawsuit that banned resource extraction on 500,000 acres of her ancestral lands — a court win ...
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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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#1286192021-05-14
How the Kakadu plum industry is being shaped by Indigenous-led businesses
Kabinyn. Madoor. Kerewey. Murunga. Gubinge. The many Indigenous language terms for the native fruit, most commonly known as the Kakadu plum in English, reflect the epic spread of its wild-growing trees, stretching from the Dampier Peninsula in Western Australia along the Northern Territory coast ...
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#1347482022-05-27
Humanity’s Last Chance Saloon: Indigenous traditional knowledge & custodianship
The destruction of circular economies in pursuit of wealth and their replacement by extractive models of systemic exploitation have brought humanity to the brink of survival.
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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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#1353112022-07-12
IPBES Values Assessment: integrating indigenous and local knowledge with scientific knowledge leads to more just and sustainable social and ecological outcomes
The assessment unveils important findings. It reveals that decision-making processes that support representation and consideration of diverse values and integrate indigenous and local knowledge with scientific knowledge have more just and sustainable social and ecological outcomes.
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#1299392021-08-13
IPCC Report: Joining forces and using indigenous knowledge could avert disaster
In a grim report released on August 9, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that climate change was “unequivocally” caused by human activity and that within two decades, rising temperatures will cause the planet to reach a significant turning point in global warming.
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#1312792021-10-28
Impacts of climate change to African indigenous communities and examples of adaptation responses
Climate change negatively impacts the livelihoods of indigenous communities across the world, including those located on the African continent. This Comment reports on how five African indigenous communities have been impacted by climate change and the adopted adaptation mechanisms.