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#1329032022-02-03
Tukupu: The women of the Kariña community, guardians of Venezuela’s forests
Cecilia Rivas remembers Tukupu as a place to live freely. The dwellings of the Indigenous Kariña community, spread out under the shade of the trees in the Imataca Forest Reserve, located in the south-east of Venezuela, was where her grandparents and parents were born.
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#1329362022-02-04
Paraguay’s drought hits biodiversity, Indigenous communities the hardest
The ongoing drought in Paraguay, now moving into its third year, has put increasing pressure on conservation efforts throughout the country to support local communities and protect wildlife.
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#1329722022-02-07
Giving new life to old languages in Australia
When we lose a language, we can also lose medicine and dietary knowledge, stories of survival through geological, environmental, climate and political change, and traditions orally transmitted over tens of thousands of years.
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#1329782022-02-07
These Indigenous women are being trained to take care of coral reefs
A group of Indigenous women is being trained to safeguard coral reefs under threat from climate change. "The Sea Women of Melanesia is a team of women from Melanesia, who are passionate about marine conservation and who are willing to go back to their community to set up marine reserves, " says ...
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#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.
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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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#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 ...
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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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#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?
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#1331512022-02-14
By Cultivating Seaweed, Indigenous Communities Restore Connection to the Ocean
In many places, Indigenous communities are working to restore seaweed species that have been traditional food sources or supported traditional diets.
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#1332072022-02-15
Traditional Knowledge of Plant Foods and Medicines
In the current reality of lockdowns and isolation, people are turning to plants as a lifeline and way to connect with nature by collecting houseplants and building outdoor gardens. For Indigenous Peoples worldwide, connections with plants are not a recent trend—sacred and cultural connections to ...
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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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#1332342022-02-16
What is biocultural diversity, and why does it matter?
What do the English concept of the countryside, the French paysage, the Spanish dehesas and Australian Aboriginal country have in common?
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#1332482022-02-16
Field school teaches young Indigenous Indonesians how to care for their forests
Haeriah is a young homemaker and a member of the Marena Indigenous community on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Although she’s lived all her life near her community’s ancestral forest, Haeriah, like many others around her age, didn’t learn about the forest growing up because for several gener ...
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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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#1333312022-02-18
A conservation paradigm based on Indigenous values in DR Congo (commentary)
The Batwa Indigenous peoples lived in the Kahuzi-Biega forests of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo for centuries before Belgian colonial rule imposed formal change in 1937 with the establishment of the Zoological and Forest Reserve of Mount Kahuzi.
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#1333802022-02-21
‘It’s a powerful feeling’: the Indigenous American tribe helping to bring back buffalo
A trio of bison has gathered around a fourth animal’s carcass, and Jimmy Doyle is worried. “I really hope we’re not on the brink of some disease outbreak,” said Doyle, who manages the Wolakota Buffalo Range here in a remote corner of south-western South Dakota in one of the country’s poorest cou ...
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#1334222022-02-22
Local communities around the globe warn of the disappearance of wild edible plants
Local and Indigenous communities warn of a significant decrease in the abundance of wild edible plants and mushrooms that negatively impacts their nutrition and food security, from local to global scales.
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#1334322022-02-22
Deforestation threat to Amazon indigenous areas if protected status changed - report
Areas of Amazon rainforest with a combined area the size of England could be threatened by new mining and deforestation, a new report claims.
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#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.
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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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#1335542022-02-25
Indigenous knowledge ‘gives us a much richer picture’: Q&A with Māori researcher Ocean Mercier
Small islands, big seascapes: that’s how many Pacific Ocean nations are characterized. Aotearoa New Zealand, a country about the size of the U.K. but with the world’s fourth-largest maritime area, is no exception.
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#1336192022-03-01
Floodplain project taps Indigenous knowledge, drawing international eyes
Around 100 people tuned in last week to the launch of a five-part webinar series to learn how Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, southwest of London, and its partners developed a collaborative approach to floodplain mapping.
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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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#1336452022-03-02
Climate crisis: Indigenous groups both victims and saviours
Long portrayed as victims of climate change, indigenous peoples who have struggled for years to protect ancestral lands and ways of life from destruction are finally being recognised as playing an important role in defending precious environments.
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#1336892022-03-03
An environmental scientist points to Indigenous knowledge for sustainability solutions
There is scientific consensus that human civilization is a threat to life on Earth. Efforts are underway to alleviate that threat, but there is much doubt over whether we can turn back our cascading environmental impacts.
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#1337222022-03-07
An Indigenous basket-weaving tradition keeps a Philippine forest alive
Philippines — On a fine day at the onset of the dry season, Sublito Tiblak wakes up very early to the sounds of birds. They’re perched on trees surrounding his home in Kamantian, an upland village tucked in the Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape in the southern part of the Philippines’ Pala ...
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#1337472022-03-07
Indigenous storytellers are overcoming hurdles to advance climate justice globally
“Indigenous storytellers have the lived experiences, they have the stories, and they also have their own way of telling these stories and offering solutions,” said Vanessa Cuervo Forero.
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#1338612022-03-31
Best-preserved part of Brazil’s Amazon, home to isolated tribes, faces ‘decimation’
The central Purus River Basin is one of the best-preserved regions of the Brazilian Amazon. But deforestation here, in the state of Amazonas, could clear an area larger than England by 2050, according to a new report by several civil society organizations.
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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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#1339702022-04-11
Ecuador’s Pastaza province, Indigenous groups collaborate on forest conservation
An almost invisible trail snakes through thick buzzing forest leading to a chakra, an ancestral food garden in the Kichwa Cuya community located in Ecuador’s largest province, Pastaza
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#1339982022-04-12
Palau adamant youth get a seat at the table in Our Ocean conference
Palau's Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment Steven Victor says it is significant for Palau to be the first small island developing state to host a large event like Our Ocean.
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#1340212022-04-12
Ărramăt Project highlights interconnections between Indigenous well-being and biodiversity
The Ărramăt Project is working to build the capacity of Indigenous organizations to document, share, and use their knowledge about the interconnections between biodiversity conservation and health and well-being.
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#1340662022-04-13
Mi'kmaw man leading Lennox Island to greener future with traditional knowledge
When Drew Bernard returned to Lennox Island three years ago, he found there wasn't a lot of work done in the community about energy.
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#1340952022-04-14
Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops
In north-eastern New Mexico, traditional Indigenous farming methods are being passed down to protect against the effects of climate crisis.
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#1341622022-04-25
This fishing captain is combining Inuit knowledge with scientific expertise to fight climate change in the Far North
Harpoon in hand, Joey Angnatok pierces the ice. He thrusts the spear once, twice, three times, carving a hole. The fourth jab breaks through to seawater. The tool is an ancient means of measuring the thickness of the ocean’s frozen surface here in Nunatsiavut, a sprawling Inuit territory on the ...
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#1341982022-04-27
Bridging knowledges for land and water stewardship
What happens when Indigenous People lead resource decision-making on their own terms, across their own traditional territories? Communities in Tanzania and Canada are documenting and sharing their experiences, supported by a University of Victoria Department of Geography project that illustrates ...
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#1341992022-04-27
Extractive projects cause irreparable harm to indigenous cultures, UN forum told
The explosive growth of extractive operations around the world often plays out on indigenous people’s lands without their consent, causing irreparable harm to their livelihoods, cultures, languages and lives, speakers told the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on Monday, as it opened its 2022 ...
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#1342242022-04-28
The ocean that binds us: How indigenous collaboration is helping to protect the moana
Te Aomihia Walker, a marine biology graduate and policy analyst with Te Ohu Kaimoana, has spent six months in Iceland researching how indigenous knowledge can improve the health of our overfished oceans.
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#1342512022-04-28
‘Existential Threat’: Indigenous Leaders Urge Citigroup to Stop Backing Amazon Oil
Indigenous leaders have called on Citigroup to stop financing oil and gas projects in the Amazon, saying the bank’s activities contradict its climate pledges by putting the threatened ecosystem at greater risk.
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#1342712022-05-04
Indigenous people harvested oysters sustainably for thousands of years
Oyster fisheries around the world have suffered collapses over the past 200 years that have been attributed to overexploitation, climatic changes, disease and the introduction of alien species.
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#1343862022-05-12
Why the world has a lot to learn about conservation – and trust – from Indigenous societies
Twenty-five years ago, when I was a young anthropologist working in northern Siberia, the Indigenous hunters, fishers and trappers I lived with would often stop and solemnly offer something to the tundra. It was usually small, such as coins, buttons or unlit matches.
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#1344472022-05-13
Wild Pacific salmon catches down 80 per cent, elders report
Wild Pacific salmon catches are one sixth what they were 50-70 years ago, Indigenous elders report. Employing Indigenous research methodologies, Nisga’a citizen Dr. Andrea Reid (she/her) interviewed 48 knowledge keepers from 18 First Nations across the Fraser, Skeena, and Nass rivers.
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#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 ...
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#1344752022-05-16
Zimbabwean designer mixes tradition, fashion
At a plot on the outskirts of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second-largest city, two women were after a trio of Angora goats aiming to catch one of the adorable balls of wool.
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#1344762022-05-16
From Traditional Practice To Top Climate Solution, Agroecology Gets Growing Attention
From melting ice sheets to tornadoes ravaging New Orleans and wildfires sweeping Texas, it’s ever clearer that the climate crisis is here, now. In its sixth major report since 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conveyed the urgency:
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#1344772022-05-16
The Hopi farmer championing Indigenous agricultural knowledge
It is March and the Hopi reservation, which stretches across high plateaux in northeastern Arizona, appears as a patchwork of varying shades of brown: The mesas – deep bronze in the morning sun – stand stately over beige houses and the light tans of sand-covered fields, shrubs and grasses. Dryne ...
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#1345182022-05-17
Village uses Indigenous seeds to slow down Cerrado deforestation
One muggy morning last December, eight women and their chief drove out of the Indigenous Xavante village of Ripá across a forested savanna in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. After a few miles, the road petered out. They walked on in single file through the knee-high grass.
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#1345212022-05-17
To conserve the vibrant diversity of Central Africa’s forests, include Indigenous people (commentary)
Our footsteps intermingled with the sounds of rain dripping through the canopy as my eyes examined the surrounding green vegetation, which was usually so vibrant, but was now subdued as the dark skies above concealed the light and darkened our path.
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#1345222022-05-17
Village uses Indigenous seeds to slow down Cerrado deforestation
One muggy morning last December, eight women and their chief drove out of the Indigenous Xavante village of Ripá across a forested savanna in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. After a few miles, the road petered out. They walked on in single file through the knee-high grass.