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#1298082021-08-09
Importance of saving Indigenous languages
Connection to country, culture and community is intrinsically linked to teaching and retaining Indigenous languages, a Flinders University communications expert says.
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#1273342021-02-24
In Brazil, an indigenous woman joins Bolsonaro in fight for mining
Irisnaide Silva is female, Brazilian and indigenous. And for once, in her view, she is being heard. For decades her family picked and panned the borderland near Venezuela, scouring the hills for diamonds and gold.
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#1336402022-03-02
In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community
As she walks through the rubble, Yawaratsuni Kokama steps over loose bricks and piles of broken tiles, her eyes welling up. From time to time, she stops to pluck a ripened mango from a tree or yank a cassava root from the ground.
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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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#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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#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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#1218812019-08-13
In the Midst of Conflict, India’s Indigenous Female Forest Dwellers Own their Land
KORCHI/GADCHIROLI, India, Aug 9 2019 (IPS) - Jam Bai, an Indigenous farmer from Korchi village in western India, is a woman in hurry. After two months of waiting, the rains have finally come and the rice saplings for her paddy fields must be sown this week while the land is still soft.
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#1265042020-12-29
Indegnious Seed, Food & Biodiversity Exibation, Karlamunda, Kalahandi
Farmers taken oath conserving indigenous and traditional seeds for future food and nutritional security.The Grampanchayt level Seed, Food & Biodiversity Exibition was held at Gajabahal and Joradobra GPs of Karlamunda block. In this exhibition farmers, youths, students, SHG members, PRI represent ...
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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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#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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#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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#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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#1353682022-07-20
Indigenous Communities Protect 80% Of All Biodiversity
Despite the fact indigenous peoples make up around 15 percent of the world’s extreme poor and just five percent of the global population, they are protecting 80 percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity, according to data cited in Australia’s newly released 2021 State of the Environment report.
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#1307482021-10-13
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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#1234652019-12-17
Indigenous Groups Team Up to Protect Latin America's Forests
In the name of Latin America's forest, Central American countries have united as part of a regional climate action plan released at U.N. climate talks in Madrid this week, according to an article by Reuters.
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#1207092019-04-10
Indigenous Indian people face forest eviction
The Bengal tiger has been used as a national brand since long before there was India, or nations. Back in the twenty-fifth century BCE, the Pashupati seal of the Indus Valley Civilisation was a tiger.
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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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#1226412019-10-15
Indigenous Knowledge Can Help Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
People who live off the land depend on keeping ecosystems intact, and scientists are tapping into their unique expertise.
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#1235152019-12-18
Indigenous Knowledge Has A Role In Global Climate Discourse
Indigenous knowledge of indigenous peoples (IPs) can make an important contribution to climate change policies and on climate action even if they are only less than a fifth of the world’s population. They occupy 22 percent of the globe, have existed thousands of years longer tnan any mainstre ...
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#1232592019-12-04
Indigenous Knowledge, a Lesson for a Sustainable Food Future
Local knowledge systems rooted in traditional practices and culture passed down generations provide sustainable solutions to food and nutritional insecurity on the back of climate change, a conference heard this week.
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#1226602019-10-15
Indigenous Land Stewardship program applies old solutions to modern problems
Program at Native Education College comes as world looks to Indigenous knowledge to help solve climate crisis.
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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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#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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#1312262021-10-27
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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#1210162019-05-10
Indigenous Peoples Have a Crucial Role in Implementing SDG 16, Concludes Permanent Forum
3 May 2019: The 18th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PFII) convened on the overall theme of ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Traditional Knowledge: Generation, Transmission and Protection.’
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#1236202020-01-09
Indigenous Peoples Key To Saving Threatened Forests
More than a third of the world’s vanishing pristine forests are managed by indigenous peoples under threat from development and deforestation, scientists said Tuesday, calling for greater protection.
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#1265872021-01-14
Indigenous Peoples Wary Of UN Biodiversity Rescue Plan
In 1872, Native Americans were violently evicted from what would become Yellowstone National Park As crunch UN talks to reverse the accelerating destruction of nature loom, indigenous peoples are sounding an alarm over proposed conservation plans they say could clash with their rights.
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#1288092021-05-25
Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, Keys to Achieving Biodiversity Goals
If the rights and decision-making capacity of indigenous peoples and local communities are not fully recognized in biodiversity management, the policies established by the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) could be insufficient. effective. Th ...
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#1268502021-02-03
Indigenous Peoples are critical to build a more sustainable post-pandemic world, says IFAD President
Indigenous Peoples have suffered disproportionately from the economic impacts of COVID-19, yet they hold essential knowledge for rebuilding a more sustainable and resilient post-pandemic world, free of poverty and hunger, said Gilbert F. Houngbo, President of the UN’s International Fund for Agri ...
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#1283632021-04-30
Indigenous Peoples in British Columbia Tended ‘Forest Gardens’
Along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, former villages of the Ts’msyen and Coast Salish Indigenous peoples are flanked by what researchers have termed “forest gardens.” On lands covered in forests dominated by hemlock and cedar trees, these forest gardens represent abrupt departures from t ...
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#1298702021-08-10
Indigenous Peoples' resilience: Supporting solutions from within
When Covid-19 hit, Indigenous peoples feared for the lives of their elders and the survival of their cultures. Despite lockdowns, there seemed to be a surge in territorial invasions, contributing to the ensuing spread of the virus in their remote communities.
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#1207012019-04-09
Indigenous Wisdom to Combat Food Security & Climate Change
The past can be a guide for the future. Located in remote Odisha, the story of Tribal Kondh could be a model for replication of sustainable development elsewhere. One of the tribal Kondh communities, residing on the slope of the Niyamagiri range, they offer hope. The community connects agricultu ...
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#1302732021-09-03
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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#1346802022-05-25
Indigenous activists among Goldman environmental prize winners
Indigenous activists and lawyers who took on transnational corporations and their own governments to force climate action are among the 2022 winners of the world’s pre-eminent environmental award.
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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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#1302192021-09-02
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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#1227842019-10-29
Indigenous and riverine communities unite to fight Amazon invaders
Earlier this year, a Mongabay reporting team travelled to the Brazilian Amazon, spending time with the remote Sateré-Mawé, documenting their culture and long-time conflict with loggers, miners and land grabbers.
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#1189492018-12-10
Indigenous communities at risk as Chinese rubber firm uses land
A Chinese state-owned company is behind rubber plantations that Cameroon villagers say threaten their livelihoods.
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#1339092022-04-01
Indigenous communities crucial to protecting biodiversity, says Minister Creecy
Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has highlighted how engaging with local and indigenous communities can benefit economic potential and protect biodiversity.
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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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#1351142022-06-29
Indigenous communities in Colombia’s Amazon move closer to self-governance
In this small Indigenous reserve, or resguardo, in the Colombian department of Guainía, people tend to their cassava, plantain and pineapple crops, raise ornamental fish, and weave objects from the chiqui chiqui palm.
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#1301672021-08-31
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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#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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#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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#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.
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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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#1297882021-07-29
Indigenous food systems game-changer, UN told
Chairperson of North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society (NESFAS) and Coordinator of The Indigenous Partnership (TIP), Phrang Roy, on Wednesday, along with others, represented the indigenous people globally, defending and promoting their food systems, at the preparatory even (Pre-Summit) ...
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#1287362021-05-20
Indigenous forest gardens remain productive and diverse for over a century
In the 1930s, an archeologist from the Smithsonian wrote a short paper remarking on the exquisite vegetation around First Nation villages in Alaska. The villages' surroundings were filled with nuts, stone fruit, berries, and herbs—several non-native to the area and many that would never grow tog ...
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#1345492022-05-18
Indigenous group and locals sign agreement to protect sustainable livelihoods and culture
Colombia – Walking all day through the jungle to visit the encampments of friends and relatives is what Tumni Abtukaru misses the most about life before his community, the Indigenous Nukak, were evicted from their ancestral homeland.
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#1233702019-12-10
Indigenous groups at COP push for ‘emergency’ protections
Indigenous groups are working to ensure references to human and Indigenous rights are included in Article 6 at the Conference of the Parties (COP) 25 in Madrid this week. Article 6 is the last article left to be negotiated from the Paris Accord, and it’s complex and contentious. It defines how c ...