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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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#1278042021-03-23
‘Like losing half the territory.’ Waorani struggle with loss of elder, and of land to oil (commentary)
Indigenous elders play a key role in the protection of their culture and livelihoods. A death of an elder threatens global conservation efforts since Indigenous livelihoods and knowledge represent key elements to understand and fight environmental degradation.
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#1277622021-03-22
[Interview] Nicolas Salazar Sutil: placing trees and indigenous knowledge at the centre of future healing
If trees on our earth could mobilise, fighting for life would be the way forward, says Nicolas Salazar Sutil, the founder and director of Forest Guardians, an independent organisation that places the knowledge of indigenous peoples at the center of our future healing.
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#1277042021-03-16
Special brew: eco-friendly Peruvian coffee leaves others in the shade
Deep within the Peruvian cloud forests, a six-hour drive from the town of Satipo, the remote Mayni community is busy growing organic coffee beneath the canopy of the native forest in order to preserve the rich mosaic of life there.
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#1277052021-03-16
Thailand’s Indigenous Peoples fight for ‘land of our heart’ (commentary)
On Sept. 3, 2019, the remains of Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, a Karen environmental and community rights defender who was disappeared in 2014, were found in an oil drum submerged under the Kaeng Krachan dam suspension bridge in Phetchaburi, Thailand.
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#1277192021-03-16
Reform, restitution, justice: UN report suggests host of measures to protect indigenous rights
A recent report by the United Nations called upon governments, conservation organisations and business corporations to reform structures, compensate and restitute as well as administer justice for the betterment of indigenous peoples. It called on countries to create and reform government struct ...
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#1276892021-03-15
Traditional healers are preserving their knowledge, and with it, the biodiversity of Brazil’s savanna
Since Lucely Pio was a little girl, she has been collecting medicinal plants in the Cerrado, Brazil’s tropical savanna. At 5, she walked through the grasslands and forests of the Cerrado with her grandmother, a midwife and healer, who taught her about where to find and how to harvest the thousan ...
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#1276552021-03-10
Bananas, indigenous knowledge, and GMOs
Biotechnology, indigenous knowledge, climate change and banana trees. This week, Africa Science Focus sits down with United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity executive secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema to discuss biodiversity and environment on the continent.
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#1276582021-03-10
Similipal forest fires put Odisha’s Lodha tribe in jeopardy
Forest fires have been ravaging the Simlipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district for over a fortnight. The rich flora and fauna are facing impending danger as the fire entered the core areas recently. However, several tribal communities around the periphery areas of Simlipal are worrie ...
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#1276212021-03-09
Ethnobotanical survey enlightens traditional knowledge, use and conservation of plants in Kenya
An ethnobotanical survey conducted in Tharaka-Nithi County in Kenya has revealed high traditional knowledge of plant resources held by the residents. This is the first study ever done in all the regions of the county, according to researchers from the Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC) ...
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#1276042021-03-08
Preserve, revive, restore: Indian ponds spring back to life
It was only when the buffaloes disappeared from an almost-dry pond in Saligao, in Goa, that residents hatched a community plan to revive it — one now seen as a model for local efforts to shore up India’s precarious water supplies.
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#1275442021-03-05
A pervasive threat to biodiversity and human security
Indigenous knowledge is important for ecological, economic and social sustainability. However, the instruments of ‘Intellectual Property Rights’ (IPRs) have overridden the authority of local communities to use traditional and indigenous knowledge in biosphere. In spite of the fact that indigenou ...
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#1275572021-03-05
Indigenous knowledge systems can provide solutions to environmental problems
Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) play a critical role in natural resources management in our country especially in the communal areas. It encompasses local technologies, innovations, know-how, skills, practices and beliefs uniting local people to conserve natural resources and their cultural v ...
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#1275602021-03-05
‘The river was stolen from us’: a tribe's battle to retake the Skagit River
Scott Schuyler doesn’t need to see the Skagit River to know something is wrong. As he walks down the river’s steep embankment, wet rock and moss under each step, he can hear the problem. “The river should be singing to us right now, it should be free flowing,” Schuyler says as cold February rain ...
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#1275092021-03-04
The World’s Largest Intact Forest Is In Danger. Here’s How To Save It.
Iris Catholique has livedfor 30 years in what is now the Thaidene Nëné Indigenous Protected Area. Straddling the tree line between the boreal forest and the tundra, this swath of old-growth spruce forests, waterfalls, deep freshwater lakes and ancient ice sheets is where both her sons had their ...
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#1274062021-03-01
Assessment identifies cultural sites in biodiversity project
The Natural Resource Management (NRM) team and I have recently been working with landholders and local Aboriginal community members to conduct Aboriginal Cultural Values Impact Assessments as part of the Biodiversity on Farm project.
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#1273762021-02-26
Indigenous groups welcome Biden-Trudeau nature conservation roadmap
Indigenous groups in Canada are welcoming plans by Ottawa and Washington to partner with Indigenous Nations across Canada and the United States to meet their climate change goals and protect nature.
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#1273452021-02-25
Tribes Could Play a Crucial Role in Achieving a Bold New Conservation Goal
An emerging effort to protect 30 percent of the country's land and water is an opportunity to strengthen tribal sovereignty and heed Indigenous ecological knowledge, experts say.
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#1273162021-02-24
Displaced from the hills: Livelihoods of tribal communities in Eastern Ghats under threat
India’s forest-dwelling communities have since antiquity utilised various biodiversity elements in forests to augment their livelihoods and fortify their nutritional security. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the hilly region of the Eastern Ghats, spread along India’s east coast in Odi ...