Tag: indigenous peoples

Notes on the negotiations and outcomes of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP15 meetings in Montréal.

Indigenous leader Gam Shimray on the fundamentality of rights in ongoing biodiversity proceedings.

Land Rights Standard gives principles to help infuse other sustainability standards and activities with justice.

Three years in the making, a new standard for Indigenous land rights is launching at COP27. Here's what it means.

In Africa and beyond, essences of colonialism in environmental conservation have become a human rights issue.

Multi-stakeholder platforms need critical mass of Indigenous and local people to ensure equity and counter power.

Could traditional and Indigenous knowledge hold the answers for the future sustainable management of oyster fisheries?

In Asia and Africa, researchers examine the biodiversity benefits inherent to the preservation of sacred groves.

Indigenous communities have sustainably managed Amazon land for centuries. Now, it should inform agricultural expansion in the future.

GLF Amazonia Day 3 highlights need to link Amazonian ecological and social systems in policy.

A study shows that the Indigenous Poyanawa people are good stewards of their land - and can benefit from its carbon credits.

Much of the world's medicinal plant knowledge is contained in endangered languages spoken by Indigenous peoples.

The Amazon is the world’s largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest – but deforestation could push it past a climate tipping point by 2040.

Xakriabá people learn new skills and aim to publish books showcasing their culture.

Brazilian documentary filmmaker Mari Corrêa explains how equipping Indigenous cultures with filmmaking skills is key to their survival.