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#123210
2019-12-02

Mātauranga Māori 'needed' to help fight the world's biodiversity crisis

The world is in the grip of a biodiversity crisis, but the issue is often lost in the loud clamour over climate change. The warming planet is just one of a number of human-made factors including habitat change, invasive species, over-exploitation and pollution pushing the planet to the brink of ...

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#123164
2019-11-28

How a resurgence in Indigenous governance is leading to better conservation

Far from the old mentality of ‘fortress conservation’ that deemed only empty landscapes as adequately protected, a new era of Indigenous-led conservation is not only better at protecting wild places but embraces the communities and cultures that have stewarded these lands since time immemorial

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#123167
2019-11-28

11th meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Article 8(j) and Related Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity

The last time I was together with many of you, in Nairobi just a few months ago, we spoke about the importance of the task ahead as you set the direction for the Convention on Biological Diversity after 2020.

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#123126
2019-11-26

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 ...

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#123083
2019-11-20

As Animals and Plants Go Extinct, Languages Die Off Too

In the parts of the world where biodiversity is most at risk, words and phrases also face extinction.

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#123014
2019-11-15

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 ...

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#122946
2019-11-11

7 Indigenous Technologies Changing Landscapes

Indigenous ways of managing landscapes have often been framed as the antithesis to progress. But most Indigenous communities hold intimate place-based knowledge, gained across generations, which is an ideal starting point for addressing contemporary challenges such as biodiversity loss, land deg ...

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#122900
2019-11-07

Pharmacy in the jungle study reveals indigenous people's choice of medicinal plants

The Amazon Rainforest produces more than 20 percent of the world's oxygen, 20 percent of the world's fresh water and is home to more than 150,000 species of plants rich in beneficial nutrients, phytochemicals and active elements. Many of these plants are the source of some the most widely used a ...

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#122784
2019-10-29

Indigenous and riverine communities unite to fight Amazon invaders

Earlier this year, a Mongabay reporting team travelled to the Brazilian Amazon, spending time with the remote Sateré-Mawé, documenting their culture and long-time conflict with loggers, miners and land grabbers.

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#122641
2019-10-15

Indigenous Knowledge Can Help Solve the Biodiversity Crisis

People who live off the land depend on keeping ecosystems intact, and scientists are tapping into their unique expertise.

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#122660
2019-10-15

Indigenous Land Stewardship program applies old solutions to modern problems

Program at Native Education College comes as world looks to Indigenous knowledge to help solve climate crisis.

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#122669
2019-10-15

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.

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#122678
2019-10-15

A native plant is exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and Western conventions

A fight is brewing over ownership of gumby gumby, exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and the Western intellectual property (IP) system. It is part of a broader debate in Australia and globally about how to value and protect traditional knowledge and ensure Indigenous people benefit ...

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#122578
2019-10-09

A New Bill Could Help Protect the Sacred Seeds of Indigenous People

Clayton Brascoupé has farmed in the red-brown foothills of New Mexico’s Sangre de Cristo Mountains for more than 45 years. A Mohawk-Anishnaabe originally from a New York reservation, Brascoupé married into the Pueblo of Tesuque tribe and has since planted at least 60 varieties of corns, beans, s ...

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#122584
2019-10-09

Our Amazon: Brazilians who live in the world's biggest rainforest

Cattle breeders, indigenous teachers and loggers are among the more than 20 million people living in the Amazon in northern Brazil, carving out a living from the world's largest rainforest.

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#122499
2019-10-03

The fight for our ecosystem cannot ignore indigenous tribes and traditions

Since the global climate strike earlier this month and the impassioned speech by Greta Thunberg at the 2019 UN climate action summit sparking nationwide conversations, the fate of our planet is on everyone’s mind; and if it isn’t, it ought to be. We’re currently in the middle of a massive global ...

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#122445
2019-10-01

Global Workshop for Indigenous and Local Communities: Biodiversity, Tourism, and the Social Web

The Global Workshop for Indigenous and Local Communities: Biodiversity, Tourism and the Social Web took place October 14, 2012 at the 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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#122435
2019-09-30

Keeping wild meat on the table

With traditional knowledge and scientific data, Indigenous hunters aim for healthy game animal and fish populations.When Denkel Ilipi was 10 years old, his grandfather took him to the forest and to the river, teaching him to hunt and fish. Now a father himself, and vice president of the Indigeno ...

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#122379
2019-09-26

Indonesia: Indigenous Peoples Losing Their Forests, Says HRW

The Indonesian government is failing to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples who have lost their traditional forests and livelihoods to oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan and Jambi provinces, Human Rights Watch said in a report. Loss of forest occurs on a massive scale and not only harm ...

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#122354
2019-09-25

Are changing agricultural practices responsible for vanishing happiness in remote Tripura hamlets?

Caught in the transition from shifting cultivation (jhum) to rubber monocropping, members of indigenous communities in a remote district in Tripura – India’s second rubber capital – are “struggling” or “just getting by”, a forthcoming study has claimed.

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#122369
2019-09-25

Just climate change action: Centering Indigenous wisdom and perspectives

The climate crisis threatens to dramatically alter people's relationships with the land on which they rely. Meanwhile, many climate solutions are themselves land-intensive: solar and wind energy, carbon dioxide sequestration, and finding places for people displaced by climate change to live and ...

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#122282
2019-09-19

The tribe that brought a damaged shoreline back to life

On a sunny Monday afternoon in August, the Shinnecock Indian Reservation's beach in Long Island, New York, resembled one of the postcard-perfect beaches in the nearby Hamptons. Except, there weren't any sunbathing tourists around. The coastline was quiet and serene with several inlets flowing in ...

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#122033
2019-08-28

Australia mulls ‘offensive marks’ to protect indigenous knowledge

IP Australia has concluded a consultation process over the protection of indigenous knowledge, which could lead to the country introducing a ban on ‘offensive’ trademarks.

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#121925
2019-08-16

At-Risk Indigenous Languages Spotlighted on New Google Earth Platform

The new initiative features recordings of native languages from around the globe

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#121869
2019-08-13

'You protect what you love': Why biodiversity thrives on Indigenous-managed lands

Recent study finds that number of unique species is 40% greater on protected land in Canada

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#121881
2019-08-13

In the Midst of Conflict, India’s Indigenous Female Forest Dwellers Own their Land

KORCHI/GADCHIROLI, India, Aug 9 2019 (IPS) - Jam Bai, an Indigenous farmer from Korchi village in western India, is a woman in hurry. After two months of waiting, the rains have finally come and the rice saplings for her paddy fields must be sown this week while the land is still soft.

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#121856
2019-08-09

Finally, the world’s top climate scientists recognize what we have always known ǀ View

A statement on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land from Indigenous Peoples and local communities from 42 countries spanning 76% of the world’s tropical forests.

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#121837
2019-08-08

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.

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#121839
2019-08-08

Four in 10 indigenous languages at risk of disappearing, warn UN human rights experts

Of 7,000 indigenous languages spoken today, four in 10 are in danger of disappearing, rights experts said on Wednesday, in a call for a decade of action to reverse the “historic destruction” of age-old dialects.

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#121808
2019-08-06

Opinion: Canada should work with First Nations to avert extinction crisis

It is barely August, and already this summer is marked by record-breaking disasters.

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#121763
2019-07-31

Biodiversity highest on Indigenous-managed lands

More than one million plant and animal species worldwide are facing extinction, according to a recent United Nations report.

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#121743
2019-07-30

Murder of Brazilian indigenous leader a ‘worrying symptom’ of land invasion

In the wake of the murder of indigenous leader Emrya Wajãpi in Brazil, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has called on the country’s authorities to “react quickly and decisively” to protect the rights of indigenous peoples on their lands.

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#121691
2019-07-24

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 ...

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#121664
2019-07-22

Video of uncontacted Amazon tribe highlights threat from illegal loggers

Clip shows a bare-chested man with a spear, who is believed to belong to the Awá people, the world’s most threatened tribe

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#121594
2019-07-16

Tired of waiting for Canada, native peoples reclaim their culture

While Canada’s indigenous peoples agree the country has a long way to go in addressing a legacy of colonial abuse, they are making strides in restoring a cultural identity that was long repressed.

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#121595
2019-07-16

Agroforestry: An ancient ‘indigenous technology’ with wide modern appeal (commentary)

The highly climate- and biodiversity-friendly agricultural practice of agroforestry is now practiced widely around the world, but its roots are deeply indigenous.

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#121552
2019-07-11

Why traditional knowledge is the key to sustainable agriculture

Substituting organic “bio-inputs” for synthetic agrochemicals is still a one-size-fits-all, technology-focused solution, which means it won’t lead to sustainable agriculture.

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#121504
2019-07-08

Indigenous groups in the Northwest Territories debate use of drones in caribou hunting

Tradition and technology are clashing on the tundra where Indigenous groups are debating the use of drones to hunt caribou.

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#121505
2019-07-08

Ancient Water System in Peru Could Fix Water Shortages

Sometimes modern problems require ancient solutions.

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#121488
2019-07-05

Data tool helps indigenous people navigate their rights

The average distance from home to school is five kilometres for indigenous children in Kenya. Often this journey is constrained by other factors: no roads and wild elephants or lions hanging around along the path.

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#121462
2019-07-03

For Ecuador’s Sápara, saving the forest means saving their language

NAPO, Ecuador — Gloria Ushigua, president of the Sápara women’s association, stops by a large, thin, spindly tree that looks almost dead, and breaks off a thin branch.

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#121456
2019-07-02

An Indonesian forest community grapples with the arrival of the outside world

DOROGOT, Indonesia — Toikot rises as the golden light of dawn begins to shine on the heavy mist that cloaks the rainforest canopy outside his home in Indonesia’s Siberut Island.

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#121384
2019-06-25

25% of world’s surface can be better protected with rights

Bonn - The math is simple: about 25 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are connected with land use, and the traditional territories of indigenous peoples cover a quarter of the world’s land surface.

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#121387
2019-06-25

'Historic moment' for indigenous people at climate talks, new climate leader says

Climate leader Pasang Dolma Sherpa has just been elected to head the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform in climate talks.

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#121370
2019-06-21

Meet the scientists embracing traditional Indigenous knowledge

From grizzly bears in areas undocumented by Western science to a possible new fast-running subtype of caribou, traditional knowledge is enriching scientific information about our natural world

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#121346
2019-06-18

First Nations have created a robust conservation economy in Great Bear Rainforest: Report

Over the past decade, First Nations have created a robust conservation economy in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest old-growth temperate rainforests left in the world, through investments in sustainable development and environmental stewardship projects that link the health of n ...

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#121313
2019-06-14

Big business commercialises Paraguay’s traditional stevia plant

Indigenous communities claim share of profitable global trade as exports to China fall foul of diplomacy

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#121110
2019-05-20

‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president

In a country where women account for almost half of Brazil’s 900,000 native people, female indigenous leaders have now stepped boldly into the political spotlight.

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#121112
2019-05-20

The Media Have Missed a Crucial Message of the UN’s Biodiversity Report

If we want to halt the extinction crisis, we need to embrace Indigenous worldviews.

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#121082
2019-05-16

Millions of indigenous people face eviction from their forest homes

If upheld, a lawsuit by environmentalists in India could lead to millions of Adivasi being displaced from their ancestral lands.

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