Eighty percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity is found in Indigenous lands. Endangered cultures are leading the fight for climate justice.
… Eighty percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity is found in Indigenous lands. … a will for change. The link between cultural diversity and biodiversity has long been recognised; we must …
Indigenous communities in Latin America are paying a high price for defending biodiversity, but we have so much to learn from their practices.
… The guardians of biodiversity Ulrike Prinz | 7th May 2020 Comment Biodiversity Amazon Indigenous Peoples Editor’s … are paying a high price for defending biodiversity, but we have so much to learn from …
A new Ecologist series explores grassroots stories of resilience and hope in a time of multiple crises.
… in the midst of these crises, from a great diversity of places, including Kenya, … pride and traditions that enhance Nature’s diversity. They are putting their worlds back … These stories teach us that nurturing diversity at all levels of life is the …
Anthropology, the study of humankind, should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, with its singular capacity to inspire the imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing, must be fought off.
… far more than merely help understand ethnic diversity. Anthropology includes biological, … the erosion of both cultural and biological diversity. Rooted in older disciplines closer … to educate people to become more tolerant of diversity. But anthropology is much more than …
The 'war on drugs' is presented as a necessary battle against social evils, writes Benjamin Ramm. But from the Andes to the Caribbean, prohibition has criminalised both religious and cultural expression. And it's a war that is strictly for the global poor: people in Colorado can grow pot - so why not Colombians?
… 'war on drugs' is a war on culture and human diversity Benjamin Ramm | 28th April 2016 … to be exploited or as obstacles. Cultural diversity was dismissed as ignorance and …
Coffee may be grown all around the tropics, writes Fiona Hesselden, but it originates in just one place: the 'coffee rainforests' of the Ethiopian highlands. We depend on the wild plants for new genes and varieties, yet the forests are falling fast to the advance of farmers. To preserve the forests and all their biodiversity, the original people of the forest must receive their just rewards.
… To preserve the forests and all their biodiversity, the original people of the forest … of coffee and the centre of its genetic diversity. But these forests and this gene … narrow genetic range - just 10% of the diversity found in the wild . This makes it …
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's definition of 'forest' includes commercial plantations of fast growing trees - often replacing biodiverse native forests relied on by local communities. FAO must stop using this mis-definition to claim that forests are expanding, when the reverse is the case.
… the structural, functional and biological diversity of non-tree elements that make up a … forest, complemented by their use of a rich diversity of non-timber forest products. True … other forest-dependent groups with a rich diversity of ways of living. Without …
Mali's elephants have lived for millennia in the inhospitable Sahara, writes Susan Canney. But with their survival at risk from a host of modern, 21st century threats, local people are coming together to protect them - and finding that they too are benefiting.
Why do the local people protect the elephants? Susan Canney | 14th July 2014 Comment Mali Elephants Indigenous Peoples Africa mali-elephants-1-cut.jpg Mali's elephants have lived for millennia in the …
A new paradigm of forest conservation is gaining ground, writes Isaac Rojas: 'financialising' them and the climate and ecological services they provide to global investors. But this is a false solution - and one that excludes the local and indigenous forest communities who can truly be relied upon to sustain their sylvan heritage.
… key committee to the Convention on Biological Diversity meets in Montreal this week , it … to deforestation, forest degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change. A … decision-makers seek solutions to biodiversity loss and climate change they too …
Gleb Raygorodetsky reports from western Canada about what we can learn from Indigenous cultures' responses to climate change.
… to continue to play an important role in biodiversity conservation and climate regulation. … the world’s linguistic and cultural diversity. Their traditional territories … about 80 percent of the world’s biological diversity and contain close to a quarter of …
A land grab twice the size of France is under way in Ethiopia, as the government pursues the wholesale seizure if indigenous lands to turn them over to dams and plantations for sugar, palm oil, cotton and biofuels run by foreign corporations, destroying ancient cultures and turning Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, into a new Aral Sea.
Ethiopia: stealing the Omo Valley, destroying its ancient Peoples Megan Perry Sustainable Food Trust | 16th February 2015 News Ethiopia Indigenous Peoples Land Grabs Farming Water omo-tesemay.png A …
To save biodiversity, we must save human diversity.
… Institute For Endangered Languages Awá Biodiversity … To save biodiversity, we must save human diversity. It is widely reported that many … survive, and nor would the vast biological diversity found on their land. The language of …
Naomi Klein famously called for a 'grand coalition' of the progressive left to fight climate change and Earth-destroying capitalism, writes Alexander Reid Ross. And now it's happening, drawing together diverse strands that encompass the fight for social and racial justice, the right to work, health, clean air and fresh water, and our freedom to be alive and thrive on this our one planet.
… droughts. They are destroying the complex diversity that the web of life requires to … how to understand and appreciate both biodiversity and human diversity, how to live together amongst both …
A new Ecologist-produced film, to be screened at the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Japan, highlights how the rights of indigenous peoples and their sustainable use of natural resources are being ignored by the Bangladesh Government
… Tom Levitt | 11th October 2010 News Biodiversity Bangladesh Indigenous Peoples … at the forthcoming Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Japan, highlights how the … to ratify the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which specifies that the …
As land rights of indigenous peoples are increasingly being violated, writes Tim Radford, new research shows that the planned destruction of the Amazon rainforest is a major threat not only to cultural identity but also to the global climate.
… essential for their own survival, their biodiversity, and the carbon they contain. But … terms of biological, cultural and linguistic diversity, these areas are exceptional. They … Amazon rainforest is a unique resource in biodiversity and is also a carbon sink of global …
Massacres like that reported to have taken place recently in the Amazon are sadly neither new nor uncommon. For uncontacted tribal peoples, the colonial era continues, as bandits and extractive industries, abetted by a corrupt government, inflict violence and plunder on them. LEWIS EVANS puts this brutality into context, and examines potential solutions.
… and a vitally important part of humankind's diversity. Uncontacted tribes are living …
Big conservation NGOs increasingly resemble the nature-destroying corporations they should be opposing, writes Margi Prideaux. This ideological capture is reflected in their vapid marketing to conservation 'consumers'; the serious abuse of indigenous communities they should be engaging as partners; and their willing sacrifice of core objectives to money and influence.
… taking too much from the world for its rich diversity to survive. Letting the market … mono-agriculture raze whole areas and replace diversity with a single focus. The illegal …
The 6,000-mile ultramarathon across Indigenous lands and cultures in the Americas.
Spirit journey Noé Álvarez | 4th March 2022 | Comment Indigenous Peoples 2020-10-19-spiritrunner.jpg The 6,000-mile ultramarathon across Indigenous lands and cultures in the Americas. In 2004, at the …
In California, water no longer runs to the sea - it runs towards money, writes Will Parrish. Most of the state's water is already controlled by agribusiness elites. Now, backed by politicians, they are planning to grab the little that's left, leaving nature and indigenous communities high and dry.
Stealing the Sacramento River - California agro-barons' last huge water grab Will Parrish | 17th June 2014 News Water USA Indigenous Peoples Farming Corporations sacramento-sunset-eric-leslie-cut.jpg …
Large scale salmon deaths are imminent on the Klamath River and its tributaries in northern California due to low flows and high temperatures. Native American tribes are protesting in the state capital as federal agencies illegally prioritize water for large scale agribusiness over fish and indigenous people.
Fish before agribusiness! California river tribes demand water Oliver Tickell | 22nd August 2014 News Indigenous Peoples USA Water Fish Farming trinityalgae2014-cut.jpg Large scale salmon deaths are …
COP22 has revealed signs of real momentum toward an effective role for tropical forests in achieving a low carbon future, writes Tony Juniper. Now for the hard bit - connecting with realities on the ground to make it happen. This will mean working with indigenous and other forest communities to support and reward their conservation efforts, while harnessing large-scale international carbon finance.
… rural livelihoods, protecting human cultural diversity, water security and wildlife …