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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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#1309682021-10-19
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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#1310652021-10-22
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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#1311442021-10-25
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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#1311822021-10-26
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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#1311952021-10-27
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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#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West Papua province are fighting for the rights to their ancestral forests, now that the local government has rescinded licenses for oil palm concessions on their lands.
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#1312682021-10-28
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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#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.
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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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#1313302021-10-29
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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#1316822021-11-15
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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#1317392021-11-16
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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#1317442021-11-16
‘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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#1317852021-11-18
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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#1317872021-11-18
“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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#1318932021-11-24
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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#1319482021-11-26
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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#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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#1319772021-11-29
Plants and animals of Noongar Nation break new ground in Indigenous knowledge tool
The Noongar Boodjar plant and animal encyclopaedia will link Indigenous species names with western scientific (both Latin and Common) names, as well as ancestral ecological and cultural knowledge chosen to be shared by local communities across more than 90 plant and animal species.
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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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#1319792021-11-29
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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#1319812021-11-29
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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#1319822021-11-29
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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#1320402021-12-03
New science: deep-sea hotspot, Indigenous ocean conservation and more
Protecting nature starts with science. Here’s a roundup of recent research published by Conservation International experts.
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#1320652021-12-06
To save the planet, protect its stewards
Indigenous people took center stage on the climate summit, but how can they and the forests be real winners, if nations still are reluctant to accept the fundamental rights for them?
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#1320742021-12-07
Between land and sea: Agrobiodiversity holds key to health for Melanesian tribes
The community’s traditionally self-sufficient and biodiverse diet features 132 species, notably the fe’i banana, a Melanesian specialty that contains 100 times the vitamin A of a typical banana.
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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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#1321192021-12-09
Indigenous lands have less deforestation than state-managed protected areas in most of tropics
Areas managed by Indigenous peoples cover more than 25% of the world’s land and overlap with 40% of protected areas globally. Studies in Nicaragua and Brazil have found that Indigenous communities with ownership of their land have lower rates of deforestation than neighbouring areas. Often, defo ...
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#1321482021-12-13
An Indigenous community in India’s Meghalaya state offers lessons in climate resilience
The Indigenous food system of the Khasi community in Nongtraw village in Meghalaya offers lessons in climate resilience and sustainable food systems, says a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation report.
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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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#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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#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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#1322092021-12-17
Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding
Research shows that national governments, investors and development organizations consider direct funding to Indigenous-led organizations as too risky, though a new report shows that Indigenous communities with good project management skills exist.
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#1322122021-12-17
Climate change, poor housing fuelling energy concerns for First Nations communities
More than 90 per cent of households surveyed in remote Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory had their electricity disconnected over a 12-month period, according to a new study investigating the link between the problem and extreme temperatures.
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#1322372021-12-20
What COP26 means for indigenous communities of Eastern Himalayas
Climate change is already here in North East India. Governments in the region must invest heavily in creating climate resilient, nature-regenerative economies by rewilding its forests and nurturing the transition to climate-resilient practices like agroforestry.
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#1323102022-01-05
Rocky road: Paraguay’s new Chaco highway threatens rare forest and last of the Ayoreo people
In 1972, Catholic missionaries entered the Chaco forest of northern Paraguay and forced Oscar Pisoraja’s family, and their nomadic Ayoreo people, to leave with them. Many perished from thirst on the long march south.
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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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#1323762022-01-07
Shatavari to Queen Sago: How We Used Rare Forest Produce to Double Tribal Incomes
In Kerala, amid the Chalakudy and Karuvannur River basin, dwell the indigenous tribes of Kadar, Malayar, and Muthuvar. These tribal groups sustain mainly through forest produce. For the last four years, ecologist Dr Manju Vasudevan has worked closely with these communities to secure their liveli ...
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#1324562022-01-12
Ottawa’s new science grant recipients to tackle complex challenges, including Indigenous-led solutions to stem biodiversity loss
Indigenous solutions for conserving nature while promoting health; machines for preserving organs donated for transplants; strategies for turning discarded ocean byproducts into opportunities for coastal communities.
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#1324842022-01-14
Zimbabwean women leverage traditional knowledge to sustain livelihoods
Early in the morning in Domboshava, a village near Harare, two women were gathering herbs in a lush green forest. A branch at a time, the women carefully pruned the shrubs, making sure they leave the plants in good health.
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#1324932022-01-14
Decolonizing Conservation: Native Communities Know How to Protect Nature
This piece originally appeared in Nexus Media. It is republished here with permission. Jessica Hernandez found her way to conservation science and environmental justice through her grandmother—and her knowledge about the natural world, accumulated over generations.
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#1325632022-01-17
West Bengal biodiversity board attempts to bring back traditional crop varieties
The West Bengal Biodiversity Board (WBBB) has prepared People’s Biodiversity Registers containing comprehensive account of local bio-resources along with related traditional knowledge and practices of the area. Efforts are now on to come up with at least five ‘seed banks’ across the state.
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#1325992022-01-18
Indigenous lore and the fire knowledge we ignore
As long as fire strategy prioritises suppression, the valuabble knowledge of Indigenous people will continue to be sidelined.
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#1326322022-01-19
Whanganui River tribes draw global focus to indigenous knowledge
A Māori development leader says the Whanganui River tribes have helped bring attention to global perspectives on indigenous knowledge, collaboration and trade.
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#1327202022-01-25
Ancient knowledge is lost when a species disappears. It’s time to let Indigenous people care for their country, their way
Indigenous people across Australia place tremendous cultural and customary value on many species and ecological communities. The very presence of a plant or animal species can trigger an Indigenous person to recall and share knowledge. This is crucial to maintaining culture and managing Country.
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#1327912022-01-28
Review utilizes Indigenous knowledge
A joint federal and provincial assessment of the environmental, economic, social and cultural impacts of mining in the Ring of Fire mineral belt will seek to meld traditional Indigenous knowledge of the area with modern science.
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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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#1328312022-02-01
Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin: Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being
As a best-selling author, the co-founder of the award-winning Amazon Conservation Team, and an acclaimed public speaker, Mark Plotkin is one of the world’s most prominent rainforest ethnobotanists and conservationists. Plotkin has worked closely with Indigenous communities–including traditional ...
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#1328932022-02-02
Indigenous knowledge a way to protect valuable wetlands
Iran is rich in terms of having a variety of wetlands due to its climatic diversity. In the world, the total number of wetlands is classified into 42 types, of which 41 types exist in the country.