Search criteria
Information Types
-
News Headlines (432)
Date
Subjects
-
Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices - Article 8(j) (432)
 |
> | KB | > | Results |
Search Results
The search was executed to find both database records and web content.News Headlines
#1351152022-06-29
Podcast: How marine conservation benefits from combining Indigenous knowledge and Western science
On today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, we take a look at two stories that show the effectiveness of combining traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge and Western science for conservation and restoration initiatives.
News Headlines
#1305882021-09-30
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.
News Headlines
#1348392022-06-02
Podcast: Indigenous, ingenious and sustainable aquaculture from the distant past to today
On today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast we look at Indigenous peoples’ long relationship with, and stewardship of, marine environments through two stories of aquaculture practice and research.
News Headlines
#1330842022-02-10
Podcast: Kelp, condors and Indigenous conservation
The importance of Indigenous stewardship and traditional ecological knowledge is increasingly recognized as vital to the future of conservation and the preservation of life on this planet. Mongabay frequently reports on Indigenous-led conservation initiatives, and we wanted to take a closer look ...
News Headlines
#1345922022-05-19
Prescribed burns: Indigenous knowledge
It is difficult to understand that this lengthy environmental article reprinted from The Spokesman-Review about controlled burnings on public land did not once mention it is an age-old practice of Indigenous people of this region and the United States to burn land to promote growth and suppress ...
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#1294262021-06-28
Protecting 30 per cent of the earth by 2030 would threaten indigenous peoples
LATELY, it seems like everyone is talking about ‘30x30’. The US president, Joe Biden, recently committed the country to protecting 30 per cent of its lands and waters by 2030. At the next meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity, world leaders are widely expected to embrace a global 30x ...
News Headlines
#1259232020-12-01
Protecting Indigenous Languages Is Protecting Biodiversity
One million animal and plant species face extinction due to human activity, according to the United Nations. Now, think about cultural production—art and literature that we have invested to address the extinction of just a handful of species (passenger pigeon included). Quite a bit actually. The ...
News Headlines
#1241662020-02-14
Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
Species are being lost at about a thousand times the natural rate of extinction. This is faster than at any other period in human history. Ecosystems — the vital systems on which all life depends — are being degraded across the globe.
News Headlines
#1206142019-04-02
Protection Of Indigenous Knowledge In Biodiversity NeedS Alternative Systems
Indigenous communities have made and continue to make important contributions to industrial agriculture, the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology but there is a need to safeguard their indigenous knowledge with alternative systems, so that they, in their own terms, benefit from the commerci ...
News Headlines
#1296792021-07-26
Pueblo youth are at the forefront of protecting Indigenous lands
Pueblo people are the direct descendants of Bears Ears, Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde therefore, it is within our cultural interest to protect these sacred landscapes.
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#1331202022-02-11
Q&A: Victor Steffensen, 48, author, filmmaker
Since the 2019-20 bushfires you’ve combined your creative talents and cultural knowledge to advocate for traditional burning. Has progress been made?
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#1263762020-12-21
Rainforests are under siege but indigenous peoples could still save the Amazon
Five years ago, when leaders of 197 countries adopted the historic Paris Agreement on climate, they opened our rainforest homes for business. During negotiations, member states agreed to pull from the pact a brief reference to protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples, placing us instead in th ...
News Headlines
#1302132021-09-01
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 ...
News Headlines
#1351752022-07-04
Recognising Indigenous knowledges is not just culturally sound, it’s good science
Floods, fires and droughts in Australia devastate lives, destroy wildlife and damage property. These disasters also cost billions of dollars through loss of agricultural and economic productivity, environmental vitality and costs to mental health. People are looking for long-term solutions from ...
News Headlines
#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 ...
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#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 ...
News Headlines
#1303412021-09-09
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 ...
News Headlines
#1247292020-03-17
Request for Submissions to the Global Report of Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge on Climate Change 2020
Indigenous issues in high mountain areas is a primary raison d’etre for GlabierHub and has been since the site began in 2015. GlacierHub strives to communicate the essentiality of indigenous knowledge to climate crisis solutions and sustainable practices related to glacier communities. With that ...
News Headlines
#1329792022-02-07
Researchers discover origins of species biodiversity on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Chinese researchers have discovered geographical isolation, natural selection, and hybridization could have together promoted the species diversification of numerous plant genera on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
News Headlines
#1230142019-11-15
Restoring the balance between wildlife and food security
“There used to be a lot of wildlife here in my father’s and grandfather’s time: deer, tapir, capybara and peccaries,” explains Asaph, a traditional hunter from the Wapishana Indigenous tribe in the Rupununi region of Guyana. “There are still some animals in the Kanuku Mountains, but they are har ...
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#1198302019-02-07
Revive indigenous knowledge, reorient transport to deal with climate change, obesity and undernutrition
Reviving traditional peoples’ knowledge of sustainable food systems and use of biodiversity could act as a bulwark against the triple threat of obesity, undernutrition and climate change, described as “three of the gravest threats to human health and survival” in a new report.
News Headlines
#1264472020-12-23
Ribeirinhos win right to waterside Amazon homeland lost to Belo Monte dam
Some 40,000 people — mostly peasant farmers, fisherfolk, traditional families (living from the collection of forest products), Indigenous people, and ribeirinhos — were evicted to make way for the Belo Monte dam, constructed between June 2011 and November 2019.
News Headlines
#1261962020-12-11
River conservation by an Indigenous community
Rivers are a major source of renewable water, and provide food, jobs and a sense of place and cultural identity for people living in the vicinity. For many Indigenous peoples, rivers are central to how they understand themselves, their origins and their relationships to the rest of nature.
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#1334822022-02-24
Sabino Gualinga, Amazon shaman and defender of the ‘living forest,’ passes away
Its a sad moment for any Indigenous community when spiritual leaders, those who hold the knowledge of sacred ceremonies and traditions, pass away from this world.
News Headlines
#1266862021-01-26
Salt making revives Fijian traditional knowledge
In December 2019, UNDP Fiji through the Accelerator Lab Pacific embarked on an experiment to understand the interplay between traditional knowledge, cultural identity and climate resilience. Our research indicated that resilient communities used traditional indigenous knowledge as a foundation f ...
News Headlines
#1295582021-07-13
Satellite data helped indigenous Peruvians save rainforest: study
Indigenous peoples patrolling the Peruvian Amazon equipped with smartphones and satellite data were able to drastically reduce illegal deforestation, according to the results of an experiment published Monday.
News Headlines
#1207032019-04-09
Scientists find Indigenous knowledge crucial to toad success
Scientists working to reduce the biodiversity disaster being caused by the march of cane toads across Northern Australia have concluded that Indigenous knowledge is the key to their success.
News Headlines
#1268202021-02-02
Scientists must learn how to interact with Indigenous people
Last February, Jesus Rotieroke and I sat together chewing on our thoughts (in the form of coca-based mambe) after spending a sweltering day in the family chagra harvesting cassava and plantains.
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#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 ...
News Headlines
#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 ...
News Headlines
#1250922020-04-16
South American indigenous peoples close territories in response to COVID-19
The first case of a member of an indigenous community in Peru testing positive for Coronavirus was recorded late last month. The person in question, Aurelio Chino, is an indigenous leader who got sick after he traveled to the Netherlands to present a complaint against the oil company Pluspetrol.
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#1218372019-08-08
Stand up and shout
When 27-year-old Peter Moll was young, his grandmother told him tales of the landscape and animals. From the semi-nomadic Maasai indigenous community in Kenya, his upbringing was closely tied to the environment.
News Headlines
#1216912019-07-24
Study confirms Indigenous peoples lead way in taking care of land
As the world moves forward (or backward) in the wake of this spring’s report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services that showed that at least one million species are threatened with extinction, we might want to listen and learn from form the pla ...
News Headlines
#1231262019-11-26
Study finds Indigenous culture boosts children's outcomes
The research, published in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, analysed data from Australia's Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children to better understand the link between the health and social wellbeing of Indigenous people and their connection to traditional cultures throug ...
News Headlines
#1348652022-06-02
Study of Indonesian protected marine areas suggests participation by Indigenous people more effective than penalties
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple entities in Indonesia and the U.S. has found that allowing Indigenous people to participate in management of protected marine areas is more effective than simply assessing penalties for violators. In their paper published in the journal Science Adva ...
News Headlines
#1344662022-05-13
Tadpoles for dinner? Indigenous community in Mexico reveals a favorite recipe for a particular frog
Stone soup (caldo de piedra) is a traditional meal from the Indigenous Chinantla region in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. Prepared by men, it is made by placing tomato, cilantro, chili peppers, onion, raw fish, salt, and water in a jicara (a bowl made from the fruit of the calabash tree) in a hole ...
News Headlines
#1258002020-11-20
Tending the Peruvian Amazon: Planting Seeds of Reciprocity Between Human and Earth
Without a doubt, one of the many durable legacies that the year 2020 will bestow upon humanity is that of a pattern interrupt, a stop sign to globalization’s scorched-earth march towards relentless industrialized productivity.
News Headlines
#1226692019-10-15
Thaidene Nëné heralds a new era of parks
In Canada’s newest national park — Thaidene Nëné National Park Reserve — the Łutsel K’e Dene will hunt and fish, work as guardians of the territory and show off their land to tourists.
News Headlines
#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.
News Headlines
#1191282018-12-19
The Amazonian tribe defending their land with technology
While the Amazonian basin is most often touted for its biodiversity, there are also hundreds of indigenous tribes that live in the rainforest. Many of these tribes are under direct threat of displacement by resource extraction and deforestation. To this day, 70 percent of the Ecuadorian Amazon h ...
News Headlines
#1271452021-02-17
The Caribou Guardians
HIGH ON A FORESTED MOUNTAIN in northern British Columbia, in the traditional territory of the West Moberly Dunne-za First Nations (WMFN) and Saulteau First Nations (SFN), Starr Gauthier is on patrol with a twelve-gauge shotgun slung over her shoulder and a laptop bag in hand. Starr is a Caribou ...