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#1279632021-04-07
Indigenous inputs alone cannot transform African agriculture – Stakeholders tell Agroecology movements
Some agricultural sector stakeholders in Africa have described as impractical a push by agroecology movements for the sole use of indigenous inputs in agricultural production. They are worried the model will most likely force a lot more people on the continent into food insecurity, poverty and h ...
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#1279942021-04-08
“You Can’t Fight Fire, You Have to Work With It”—In Australia, These Women Are Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge to Protect Their Land
Australia just endured the worst flooding it has seen in 60 years, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes in Sydney, New South Wales, and up the North Coast. For many, the experience was painfully familiar; these were the same communities impacted by Australia’s “Black Summer” wildfires of 20 ...
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#1280042021-04-12
Native communities confront painful choice: move away, or succumb to rising waters?
Throughout Indian Country, where cultures are tied to land and water, plans to relocate are under way as the climate crisis worsens At any moment, on any school day, the entire future of the Quileute Tribe is at risk. The Quileute tribal school is located within a stone’s throw from the Pacific ...
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#1280192021-04-12
These People Are Losing Their Gods to Climate Change
As Uganda's mountainous ice caps melt, ethnic groups are losing the traditional belief systems that have sustained them for thousands of years.
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#1280282021-04-12
‘We are made invisible’: Brazil’s Indigenous on prejudice in the city
Contrary to popular belief, Brazil’s Indigenous people aren’t confined to the Amazon Rainforest, with more than a third of them, or about 315,000 individuals, living in urban areas.
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#1280592021-04-14
Recognizing the true guardians of the forest: Q&A with David Kaimowitz
Over the past 20 years, the conservation sector has increasingly recognized the contributions Indigenous communities have made toward achieving conservation goals, including protecting biodiversity and maintaining ecosystems that sustain us. Accordingly, some large conservation NGOs that a gener ...
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#1280602021-04-14
Learn to use medicinal plants during Earth month
In April, we celebrate the earth and participate in activities such as tree plantings. Earth month is about the interconnectedness of people and nature, especially on Guam. The Chamoru people hold a deep connection to the land as I taotao tåno, and have traditional practices tied to plants and a ...
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#1282172021-04-22
Indigenous islanders seek refuge as climate change reaches Panama’s shores
Climate change has caused ocean levels on Panama's Atlantic Coast to rise by almost 10 inches. It is threatening the ancestral island homelands of the Guna tribe and many are resigned to leaving for the mainland as the waters wash in.
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#1282182021-04-22
Indigenous knowledge and Western science
As businesses look to operate more sustainably, there has been a growing movement to draw on the wealth of Indigenous knowledge that’s intimately connected with the natural world.
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#1282192021-04-22
Earth Day — A case for traditional knowledge to mitigate the planetary crisis
Conservation is woven into the daily life of traditional communities and indigenous people that depend upon or live with nature for their survival and cultural practices. We can learn from these communities. Careful promotion and protection of traditional knowledge could be of assistance as we s ...
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#1282202021-04-22
Online project aims to preserve voices, knowledge of First Nations elders
An elder based in Treaty 3 Territory in northwestern Ontario says he hopes a new website will help to preserve traditional Anishinaabe language and culture for generations to come. The recently launched firstnationelders.com features podcasts, videos and songs recorded by elders eager to share ...
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#1282512021-04-26
Use indigenous knowledge as a catalyst for climate action in Kenya
Over the last 100 years, climate change has been a global issue. Rising temperatures, rising sea levels, coastal erosion and extreme weather events like floods, landslides and severe droughts are some of the manifestations of climate change.
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#1282782021-04-27
Mikaila Way ’12 Works with Indigenous Communities to Shape the Future of Food Systems
Throughout her childhood, Mikaila Way ’12 learned bits and pieces about the genocide waged against Indigenous peoples of North America, including forced displacement, forced assimilation in boarding schools, massacres and targeted killings. She did not forget.Today, Way works as the Indigenous p ...
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#1283112021-04-28
Securing Land Rights Of Indigenous Communities In Tanzania
As competition for land intensifies and population burgeons in Tanzania, there has been a marked rise in conflict between communities and with wildlife for limited resources including water and pasture.
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#1283122021-04-28
Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech
In March 2018, Peter-Lucas Jones and the ten other staff at Te Hiku Media, a small non-profit radio station nestled just below New Zealand’s most northern tip, were in disbelief. In ten days, thanks to a competition it had started, Māori speakers across New Zealand had recorded over 300 hours of ...
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#1283152021-04-28
Thriving Together: Salmon, Berries, and People
When I was small, my ǧáǧṃ́p (grandfather) would set about the serious business of food gathering with my cousins and me in the late spring. Everyone in the family had a role in our food harvests and backyard cannery, and the children’s role came early in the salmon season.
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#1283292021-04-28
Ecologists working with tribal partners to preserve culturally significant ecosystems and species
For the past few months, Megan Jennings and Lluvia Flores-Renteria have been collecting acorns from Indian reservations, storing them at home in their refrigerators to keep them fresh and germinating them in greenhouses.
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#1283432021-04-30
Recovering Ancient Knowledge for the Good of the Earth
I acknowledge I am living and working on the ancestral homeland of the Tewa people; on the place called, Po’oge, Whiteshell place. I recognize the ancestors and present-day Tewa people have loved and cared for these lands for centuries. I am honored to be a guest on this territory.
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#1283592021-04-30
They are killing our forest, Brazilian tribe warns
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has asked for $1bn (£720m) a year in foreign aid to reduce illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. But under Mr Bolsonaro deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has soared, jeopardising the livelihoods of some of the world's most vulnerable indigenous co ...
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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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#1283992021-05-05
Why Indigenous Guardians are key to Canada's climate future
In a section focused on biodiversity and the climate crisis, the 2021 federal budget shared in April contained a clear line: “Support Indigenous Guardians.” It was an explicit reference to the Guardians programs caring for lands across the country. The Indigenous Leadership Initiative (ILI), whi ...
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#1284582021-05-06
Learning from Indigenous knowledge
Australia’s Indigenous peoples have been disenfranchised from control of their water. Despite holding recognised rights to over 40 per cent of Australia’s land, Indigenous people hold less than one per cent of its water. Australia’s current water framework, the National Water Initiative (NWI), h ...
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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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#1285382021-05-11
Mpumalanga traditional healers might run out of medicinal plants
Johannesburg – Healers blame traditional leaders for failing to protect sacred sites when allocating land for business and houses, writes Masoka Dube. Fannie Mashaba, a traditional healer based in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, is worried that healers might run out of medicine as indigenous plants a ...
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#1285582021-05-11
New plan recognises sea country connection
The heritage, knowledge, and cultural values of Mandubarra Traditional Owners is now formally captured and will be used to inform future management of their sea country in north Queensland.
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#1285592021-05-11
Indigenous rights and Argyle diamonds: good intentions, bad policy and the burden of history
The world-famous Argyle diamond mine, in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, was the dividend from a painstaking search for tiny mineral clues. Led by geologist Ewen Tyler, the search scrutinised 190,000 square kilometres of country, an area almost as large as Great Britain. In 1972, ...
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#1285932021-05-12
Indigenous in Salvador: A struggle for identity in Brazil’s first capital
Brazil — Leaning on the balcony railing at her rickety house, perched above the stairs and alleys of a poor community in Salvador, capital of Brazil’s Bahia state, Vanessa Braz da Conceição looks up at the night sky. For this 35-year-old pharmacy student, it’s her way of connecting with nature a ...
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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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#1286182021-05-14
Páramos at Risk: The Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot
The pressures of climate change and human land use could lead to the disappearance of unique biodiversity and vital ecological services.
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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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#1286202021-05-14
There can be no biodiversity without human diversity
The idea that humans are a danger to nature is deeply rooted in some minds. However, it is based on an ethnocentric vision of what the term ‘human’ encompasses. Not all human beings destroy the earth. It is our consumerist lifestyle and economic model based on infinite growth that are at the roo ...
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#1286212021-05-14
Indigenous people's lives depend on their lands, but threats are growing worldwide
The threats facing Indigenous people opposing industrial operations on their lands — discrimination, harassment and assassination — all disproportionately affect women. And the coronavirus pandemic has done little to reduce the danger, say Indigenous and faith leaders.
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#1286542021-05-14
Ancient Indigenous population much larger than previously thought
Innovative studies using a supercomputer have found that the Aboriginal population 60,000 years ago was much larger than previous estimates suggest. Researchers developed a simulation model and used a supercomputer that tested 125 billion potential pathways across the continent and found Aborigi ...
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#1286792021-05-17
Fabled land or false narrative: what is the modern outback?
The outback looms large in Australia’s collective mythology. For some it’s a fabled place of extreme beauty and harshness that forged the Australian character. But for others this is a false narrative – as the author Alexis Wright puts it, a story “Australia chose to tell itself and wanted to be ...
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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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#1287972021-05-24
Seeking solutions from within
Nature is an essential part of our identity and life. The best examples of harmonious and beneficial co-existence with nature come from places where nature is valued and respected as an essential part of people’s identity and life.
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#1287982021-05-25
NIYAT: a new project for the Slow Food network in Argentina
Indigenous* leadership in the construction of new forms of local governance for the recognition and access to rights. The word “Niyat” refers to the Wichí name of the traditional leader, who represents a guide and bases his leadership on the knowledge and ability to guide the group in the face o ...
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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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#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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#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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#1289032021-05-27
New sculpture unites traditional knowledge and modern science in Western Australia's south
A first of its kind sculpture that unites traditional knowledge with modern science has been unveiled in Western Australia's Great Southern region.
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#1289042021-05-31
Initiative to conserve sacred groves
There are 163 sacred groves on the Marakkanam-Puducherry-Cuddalore stretch For centuries, ‘Kovil Kaadugal’ or sacred groves were looked after and maintained by the local communities residing there, who made use of the age-old traditions and knowledge to conserve them.
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#1289062021-05-31
Climate change and indigenous peoples, afro-descendants and migrants examined at global seminar
Indigenous peoples and afro-descendants’ knowledge, innovations and resilience capacities are essential for the transformation to a more sustainable and climate-friendly world and should be included in the policy-making processes, agreed the High-Level Seminar convened today by the Food and Agri ...
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#1290522021-06-04
Decline in languages leads to decline in Indigenous biological knowledge
Around the world, more than 7,000 languages are spoken, most of them by small populations of speakers in the tropics. Papua New Guinea (PNG), where nine million people speak 850 languages, is the most linguistically diverse place on Earth.
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#1290532021-06-04
Linking modern science with Indigenous knowledge to care for the land
Professor of biodiversity Stephen Hopper says the world is struggling to care for biodiversity. The trend is down. In Australia, the damage has occurred in the last two hundred years, since European settlement.
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#1290912021-06-04
Traditional peoples hold key to healthy ecosystems, Vatican official says
The Earth's warming temperatures are having a disproportionate negative impact on Indigenous peoples, those of African descent and migrants, but their ancestral wisdom is essential to efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change and preserve biodiversity, a top Vatican official said.
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#1290922021-06-04
On the Mongolian steppe, conservation science meets traditional knowledge
Vast terrains dominated by grasses, shrubs or sparse trees, rangelands are more than unproductive places where reticent herders graze their livestock and wildlife browse dry — or green, if lucky — meadows.
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#1291052021-06-07
Invite Ips on the table, not just put them on the menu: Capuyan
MANILA – National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Chairperson, Secretary Allen A. Capuyan, on Friday stressed the need to “invite the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) on the table, not just put them on the menu.”
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#1291412021-06-07
Indigenous people denounce Chinese oil giant's extractions in Peru's Amazon Forest
In Peru, Indigenous groups and local NGOs are using innovative advocacy strategies to ensure that Chinese investment in their communities includes them in the decision-making process and doesn't come at the expense of the environment.
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#1291622021-06-08
Knowledge of medicinal plants at risk as languages die out
Knowledge of medicinal plants is at risk of disappearing as human languages become extinct, a new study has warned.Indigenous languages contain vast amounts of knowledge about ecosystem services provided by the natural world around them. However, more than 30% of the 7,400 languages on the plane ...