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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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#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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#1272972021-02-23
The Limits of Eden
After two hours’ travel through driving rain, Lucio arrived in the village with his two wives and children aboard a raft, all soaked to the skin. Four weeks earlier, they had decided to leave their nomadic life in the high reaches of the River Comerjali, where hundreds of Machiguenga and Mashco- ...
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#1211122019-05-20
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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#1260542020-12-07
The Place of African Traditional Medicine in Response to COVID-19 and Beyond
Mr. Martin Onyalo Odhiambo is a traditional herbal practitioner who handles herbal plants to help cure different ailments and diseases in human and animals. Based at the Medicinal Garden at the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi, he works for Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH) as a ...
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#1205052019-03-26
The Story of the Surui Forest Carbon Project
The Surui Forest Carbon Project was the first indigenous-led conservation project financed through the sale of carbon offsets. It dramatically reduced deforestation within the territory during its first five years of operation (2009-2014), but was suspended in 2018 after the discovery of large g ...
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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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#1224992019-10-03
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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#1248182020-03-20
The forest is everything': indigenous tribes in India battle to save their home from Adani – in pictures
Australian photographer Brian Cassey visits Hasdeo Arand, one of the largest contiguous stretches of dense forest in central India. The area is rich in biodiversity, containing many threatened species including elephants, leopards and sloth bears. A rash of newly approved mines could further des ...
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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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#1347492022-05-27
The new public artwork forcing Australians to think about the past
A massive red X sits in the centre of a new sculpture by artist Kent Morris, installed at Federation Square this week to mark the beginning of Reconciliation Week. The X is a significant part of south east Victorian Indigenous design and iconography, often used on shields, boomerangs and possum ...
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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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#1209142019-05-02
The quiet loss of knowledge threatens indigenous communities
Plants play an important role for most indigenous communities in South America, and not merely as a source of food.
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#1237102020-01-14
The right to be cold
Finland is the home of rich fishing cultures that are dependent on proper snow and ice conditions. The coastal Swedes, Finns and the Indigenous Sámi People have all developed cultures and food systems that, since the Ice Age 10,000 years ago, have relied on their knowledge of ice.
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#1222822019-09-19
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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#1204072019-03-18
The value of native title in Australia
Timber Creek is the quintessence of a one-horse town. Even by Northern Territory, Australia standards it is tiny. Now, it is the centre of a native title decision which has national significance and massive implications for the country.
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#1246102020-03-10
The world’s best fire management system is in northern Australia, and it’s led by Indigenous land managers
The tropical savannas of northern Australia are among the most fire-prone regions in the world. On average, they account for 70% of the area affected by fire each year in Australia.
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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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#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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#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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#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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#1347202022-05-25
This Bogotá Market Comes Alive Only at Night, Full of Ancient Plant Lore and Astonishing Biodiversity
the plaza announces itself as an aroma. It’s near midnight in the Colombian capital of Bogotá, a city of 8 million, tucked in the Andes at an elevation of 8,660 feet. Downtown is deserted as we approach the neighborhood known as Los Mártires.
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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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#1355182022-08-01
Three Yukon First Nations combine traditional knowledge and modern mapping in preparation for land use planning
How We Walk with the Land and the Water is an undertaking by three Yukon First Nations that uses modern technology to support traditional local knowledge of the land and wildlife by bringing it into a more recognizable form for those in a western scientific setting.
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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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#1215942019-07-16
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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#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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#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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#1351622022-06-30
Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Saving the Humboldt Marten
The Humboldt marten is about the size of a 4-month-old human baby and adorable, with small, round ears, a fluffy tail and a button nose.
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#1269602021-02-10
Traditional Fishers – The Unsung Heroes Of Ocean Conservation
Ocean conservation has too long marginalized the very people best placed to lead the most powerful change: traditional fishing communities. Alasdair Harris, founder of Blue Ventures, talks to Ashoka’s Pip Wheaton, about how empowering the people who know the ecosystems best provides a myriad of ...
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#1209372019-05-03
Traditional Indigenous knowledge supports flood mitigation research in James Bay region
Researchers collaborate with Kashechewan First Nation to understand changing spring flooding in northern Ontario.
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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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#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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#1290912021-06-04
Traditional peoples hold key to healthy ecosystems, Vatican official says
The Earth's warming temperatures are having a disproportionate negative impact on Indigenous peoples, those of African descent and migrants, but their ancestral wisdom is essential to efforts to reduce the impacts of climate change and preserve biodiversity, a top Vatican official said.
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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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#1240082020-01-29
Trust our expertise or face catastrophe, Amazon peoples warn on environment
Ecosystems will continue to collapse around the world unless humanity listens to the expertise of indigenous communities on how to live alongside nature, a prominent Amazon leader has warned.
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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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#1268852021-02-04
UK is helping indigenous communities in Peten to protect and use their ancient traditional medicine
The British Ambassador in Guatemala, Nick Whittingham, met with the Mayan Council of Indigenous Spiritual Leaders of the Southern Peten, ACGERS, who are using the benefits of ancient traditional medicine as part of a UK funded project.
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#1304082021-09-14
United Nations And Indigenous Peoples Work Together For Our Planet
Taking place in Marseille shortly before a new international biodiversity agenda is set for the next decade, the IUCN World Conservation Congress is a unique opportunity to shape the ambition and galvanize the necessary action. It is also an opportune time to ensure that all knowledge systems ar ...
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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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#1349162022-06-08
Using Indigenous knowledge and Western science to address climate change impacts
Traditional Owners in Australia are the creators of millennia worth of traditional ecological knowledge—an understanding of how to live amid changing environmental conditions. Seasonal calendars are one of the forms of this knowledge best known by non-Indigenous Australians. But as the climate c ...
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#1216642019-07-22
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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#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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#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.
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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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#1236112020-01-09
We need to save the tamaraw before it is too late
Old Fausto exhaled from his worn clay pipe, the sweet scent of wild tobacco enveloping the hut."It was sickness that drove us down from the mountains. Measles we got from Tagalog visitors. Half our village of 200 died. The survivors moved here to be closer to civilization. Now we constantly need ...
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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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#1234422019-12-13
Western science and cultural knowledge meet to conserve biodiversity
A new research project led by Curtin University will unite modern Western science with historical and cultural knowledge from local Indigenous Elders to conserve the biodiversity of the Dryandra Woodlands near Narrogin, Western Australia.
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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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#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.