Tag: local communities

In this news roundup: Countries agree loss and damage funding, fossil fuel controversy at COP28, and the green promise of white hydrogen

On 13 July 2023, the Finance for Nature Digital Forum explored how finance can join forces with nature in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Community business can create wealth for members and promote sustainable land management – if given the investment and support to thrive.

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

At UNCCD COP15, scientists and community members came together in discussion to help improve land tenure security.

Study forecasts survival rates for 18 of Amazonia's main collected plant species and the impact of these extractive resources on communities.

Of USD 30 billion, negligible amounts reach Indigenous communities managing nearly half the world’s non-Antarctic land, report finds.

Health professions, finance and landscape custodians are called to the forefront in biodiversity policy recommendations issued by the GLF.

Stories from Indigenous peoples and local communities across the world form policy recommendations in the a major new report on biodiversity.

A growing number of people are turning to Kirinyaga’s precolonial past to save the mountain’s vital forests from an uncertain future.

Top 10 stories on initiatives working behind the scenes to build and sustain livelihoods in harmony with nature.

The fisherpeople of Bahia state’s last intact mangrove forest are facing the cleanup of an origin-unknown oil spill in Brazil alone.

In the fallout of unsustainable logging in the DRC, locals begin replanting

Forest and land tenure rights are vital tools against land grabbing – but many Indigenous peoples and local communities still lack them.

In the ‘Serengeti of Southeast Asia’, the Prey Lang smartphone app helps Indigenous communities in Cambodia expose and record illegal logging.