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 …
Recent reports of catastrophic declines in bee populations have had scientists buzzing around looking for a plausible explanation. Is it mites? Is it GM crops? Is it mobile phones or habitat loss? It's all of these things, says Pat Thomas, but it's also so much more than that.
… Thomas | 11th February 2008 News Bees Crops Diversity Colony Collapse Disorder Intensive … Electromagnetic Fields Parasites Varroa Diversity Farming Food Security Natural World … for bees to ensure their survival and genetic diversity). To ensure that colonies express …
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 …
It's been another disastrous year for North America's Monarch butterflies, with the insect's population down 27% in a single year. The sudden decline is blamed on severe winter storms in Mexico, and the impacts of GMO crops, herbicides and insecticides on US farms.
… 10th February 2017 News Extinction Insects Biodiversity Farming Pesticides USA Mexico Canada … senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. A recent study by the US Geological … of the monarch led the Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Food Safety, the …
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 …
At what point are technologies so complex, uncertain, or unmanageable as to be beyond regulation? The question is key to human and ecological health, writes Jonatham Latham. But instead of learning from successful approaches, such as aviation safety, we are throwing the lessons away when faced with truly complex problems - like chemicals, GMOs, and now 'gene drives'.
… may potentially cause an enormous number and diversity of harms. They may result in … This is both because of the potential diversity and number of harmful endpoints, and … Some sample questions can illustrate the diversity of endpoints relevant to gene drive …
With Brexit the UK will have to chose between two visions of our farming future, writes Keith Tyrell. Will it be heavily subsidised corporate agribusiness that ravages both nature and small, high quality farmers. Or will we seize the chance to build a sustainable food and farming system that supports wildlife, landscape, family farms, organic production and diverse rural economies?
… to intensive monocrops while destroying biodiversity on a massive scale. Measures to … Pesticides: the agrochemical threat to our biodiversity There is little doubt that intensive … Ha. Pesticides have direct impacts on biodiversity - many are toxic to insects, birds, …
Five international judges say Monsanto's activities have negatively affected individuals, communities and biodiversity, writes Claire Robinson. The Monsanto Tribunal's damning ruling denounces the company's harmful impacts on food sovereignty, agricultural production, access to nutrition, the natural environment, seed diversity, climate change, pollution and traditional cultural practices.
… affected individuals, communities and biodiversity, writes Claire Robinson. The … to nutrition, the natural environment, seed diversity, climate change, pollution and … than corporate interests." Under threat: biodiversity and fundamental human rights …
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 …
Since 2018 almost 1000 hectares of land around lake Bolsena, Italy, has been appropriated by the chemically-grown hazelnuts industry.
… James P Graham | 25th November 2020 | News Biodiversity Pesticides Editor’s Picks Italy … can live or feed there – consequently the biodiversity around hazelnut plantations is … nature is screaming out for help, our biodiversity is being devastated, our populations …
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 …