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#131978
2021-11-29

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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#131979
2021-11-29

Questions over who gets the billions pledged to Indigenous causes at COP26

Private, public and philanthropic donors pledged billions of dollars to strengthen Indigenous land tenure and forest management at COP26, notably donating $1.7 billion as part of efforts to reverse forest loss.

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#131981
2021-11-29

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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#131982
2021-11-29

Kenya’s Indigenous Ogiek partner with government rangers to restore Mau Forest

Three years ago, some community members of the Ogiek people of Kenya decided to start working with the Kenyan Forest Service to restore the forest complex and promote conservation coupled with sustainable livelihoods such as beekeeping. Today, using this biocultural approach, volunteer community ...

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#131948
2021-11-26

Natural Resources: Brands Partnering with Indigenous Communities on Forest Conservation

Consumer goods brands and retailers aiming to diminish their climate impacts or even become forest positive can find cost-effective solutions to protect forests when they partner with indigenous communities on the ground.

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#131959
2021-11-26

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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#131893
2021-11-24

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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#131785
2021-11-18

The ingenious living bridges of India

For centuries, indigenous groups in north-east India have crafted intricate bridges from living fig trees. Now this ancient skill is making its way to European cities.

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#131787
2021-11-18

“Biodiversity is declining at the same time as sociodiversity” – Release

Specialist in indigenous peoples of Siberia and shamanic traditions (Traveling in the invisible, 2019), anthropologist Charles Stépanoff, director at EHESS, conducted an immersive survey on the borders of Perche, Beauce and Yvelines, to study the role of violence in human society, and the parado ...

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#131739
2021-11-16

We need to design housing for Indigenous communities that can withstand the impacts of climate change

Remote Indigenous communities in Australia will experience the impacts of climate change disproportionately to the rest of the country.

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#131744
2021-11-16

‘A death sentence’: Indigenous climate activists denounce Cop26 deal

Indigenous communities facing an upsurge in land grabs, water shortages and human rights violations as a result of the Cop26 deal have accused world leaders of sacrificing them in order to postpone meaningful climate action and shield corporate profits.

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#131682
2021-11-15

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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#131282
2021-10-29

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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#131330
2021-10-29

Indigenous voices speak the truth that can help save our planet

In the mystical and magnificent indigenous forests of Venda lies a jewel of biodiversity that has been protected by gogos (women elders) for generations. It is sacred to them.

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#131268
2021-10-28

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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#131279
2021-10-28

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.

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#131195
2021-10-27

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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#131226
2021-10-27

Indigenous Papuans won their forest back from a palm oil firm, but still lack land title

Indigenous people in Indonesia’s West Papua province are fighting for the rights to their ancestral forests, now that the local government has rescinded licenses for oil palm concessions on their lands.

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#131182
2021-10-26

OPINION: Protecting human rights key to safeguarding nature

Last week, leaders from around the world came together at a global summit to negotiate a comprehensive plan to safeguard nature around the world.

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#131144
2021-10-25

Indigenous peoples seek greater voice and more influence at COP26 climate conference

When she was first elected as a tribal leader in 2006, Fawn Sharp, now the vice president of the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington state, confronted an ecological catastrophe: the virtual end of the sockeye salmon run.

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#131065
2021-10-22

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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#130968
2021-10-19

The Crucial Work of Indigenous Rangers

For the past 25 years, the Dhimurru Aboriginal Corporation (Dhimurru) has contributed to the sustainable management and care of Yolŋu lands and waters in North-East Arnhem Land in Australia’s Northern Territory.

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#130746
2021-10-13

'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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#130748
2021-10-13

Indigenous Groups Call for Greater 'Biocultural Rights' Ahead of UN Climate Summits

Indigenous peoples in the Amazon rainforest have a clear message for decision-makers ahead of two global environment conferences: Respect our land and human rights to slow climate change and protect biodiversity.

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#130588
2021-09-30

Podcast: Indigenous rights and the future of biodiversity conservation

We’re at something of an inflection point in the history of conservation and Indigenous engagement.

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#130589
2021-09-30

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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#130604
2021-09-30

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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#130469
2021-09-20

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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#130472
2021-09-20

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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#130403
2021-09-14

Where people live in harmony with lions

In traditional Maasai society, killing lions was a rite of passage. But thanks to an innovative conservation programme in Kenya, lions and Maasai can safely share this land again.

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#130406
2021-09-14

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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#130408
2021-09-14

United Nations And Indigenous Peoples Work Together For Our Planet

Taking place in Marseille shortly before a new international biodiversity agenda is set for the next decade, the IUCN World Conservation Congress is a unique opportunity to shape the ambition and galvanize the necessary action. It is also an opportune time to ensure that all knowledge systems ar ...

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#130365
2021-09-13

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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#130341
2021-09-09

Report: Effects of climate change on Indigenous peoples, lands and culture

Researchers from the Institute of Tribal Environmental Professionals this week launched the State of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) report, which examines the disproportionate effect climate change has on Indigenous lands and people and the added strain tribes experience as they respond to da ...

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#130314
2021-09-07

Indigenous people refuse to be biodiversity ‘song and dance’ act

There’s a big challenge facing efforts to protect large swathes of the planet to preserve threatened biodiversity — indigenous people live on a lot of that land and they feel excluded from formulating such policies.

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#130273
2021-09-03

Indigenous Women Vital to Climate Action

The International Day of Indigenous Women celebrated annually on 5 September serves as a reminder that indigenous women play a leading role in reducing the harmful emissions that contribute to climate change, and help their communities address adverse, climate-related impacts.

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#130219
2021-09-02

Indigenous and local communities key to successful nature conservation

Indigenous Peoples and local communities provide the best long-term outcomes for conservation, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and partners in France.

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#130229
2021-09-02

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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#130245
2021-09-02

Kenyans Tap Traditional Wisdom to Save Native Trees and Water

Using their traditional knowledge, elders in Cheplanget village began planting water-retaining indigenous trees along the stream's bare banks and issued local by-laws banning the cutting of bushes and trees along the stream.

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#130210
2021-09-01

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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#130213
2021-09-01

Ramya Nair on working with indigenous Yimkhiung Naga, exploring wildlife despite hunting pressure

The mountainous state of Nagaland in northeast India lies in one of the most biodiverse areas on Earth. More than half of the state is still covered by forest. With only one small national park and two wildlife sanctuaries, 88 percent of Nagaland’s forests are owned and managed by the communitie ...

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#130167
2021-08-31

Indigenous communities in N.B. say climate change is threatening their way of life

Cecelia Brooks remembers a time when the deep forest of New Brunswick was so cold, snow could still be found in its depths in August. That rarely happens anymore, says Brooks, a traditional knowledge keeper with Wolastoqey, Mi'kmaw, Mohawk and Korean bloodlines who has been foraging and harvesti ...

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#130086
2021-08-20

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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#130039
2021-08-19

Planet needs Indigenous peoples to help save biodiversity: top rights expert

Under a UN-backed global biodiversity framework draft agreement, countries have agreed to protect 30 per cent of the planet and restore at least 20 per cent by 2030.

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#130027
2021-08-18

Why must Bolivia’s Ese ejja communities stop eating fish?

In the extreme west of Bolivia’s Beni department, north of the capital La Paz, Amazonian forests survive in an increasingly degraded state. This remote area, which borders Peru and Brazil, used to be a veritable paradise before the arrival of the gold rush in the 1980s.

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#129990
2021-08-16

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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#129991
2021-08-16

Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract

Traditional knowledge is always important despite our progress in the field of science and technology. Some people are still practising and preserving much of such traditional knowledge. Whenever we talk about people living sustainably with nature then the answer is directly indigenous peoples w ...

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#129939
2021-08-13

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.

Notification
#3101
2021-08-12

Selected representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities to receive funding for their participation in the Third meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/TMc/QC/TM/89766 (2021-055)
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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#129869
2021-08-10

World’s Indigenous peoples and the environment

International Day of World’s Indigenous People is celebrated on the 9th August every year since 1994. This day is celebrated to strengthen the international cooperation for solving problems faced by the indigenous peoples in areas such as culture, education, health, human rights, the environment ...

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