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Indigenous peoples

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Peoples Forests Partnership leads call to increase climate finance for Indigenous Peoples

The first-of-its-kind group is seeking new partners to bolster the coalition’s goal to mobilize $20B annually by 2030 in support of IPLC efforts to combat the climate crisis.

 

What do land rights mean for Indigenous peoples?

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

 
A herdboy, Loliondo, Tanzania, where Maasai communities have been evicted. Per Harald Olsen, AfricanBioServices

How to keep environmental conservation from doing more harm than good

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

 
New research proves that participation does not always equate to power in decision-making processes. Marlon del Aguila Guerrero, CIFOR

A seat at the table isn’t enough to ensure equity and “counter power”

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

 
An oyster bed in the Pacific Northwest. Toan Chu, Unsplash

Oysters were harvested sustainably for thousands of years by Indigenous peoples, study finds

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

 
Markus Spiske, Flickr

Best of Landscape News 2021: People & Rights

Our pick of this year’s top Landscape News stories on people and rights.

 
Photo by Mídia Ninja

Indigenous Peoples Must be Central to Tackling the Climate Crisis

Indigenous peoples' contributions to protecting forests is an increasingly recognised tool in the fight against climate change.

 
A cacao farm in the Peruvian Amazon incorporates agroforestry practices. Marlon del Aguila Guerrero, CIFOR

In the future, expanding the Amazon’s land management systems of the past

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

 

Faroese dolphin hunters, bitcoin emissions and fossil fuel fury

In this news roundup: Europe and China face energy crisis, Afghanistan has drought, and Vanuatu seeks ICJ ruling on climate protection.

 
Festival Atsá en la TI Poyanawa. Foto: Alessandra Melo.

Indigenous Land in the Brazilian Amazon is a brake on deforestation and may start generating carbon credits

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

 
Indígena Koreguaje, da Colômbia, em colheita de plantas medicinais. Foto: actcolombia/(CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

Extinction of indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

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

 

Workshop empowers Brazil’s Xakriabá people to publish their own books

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

 
Local filmmaking by the Kuikuro people in the Xingu region's Ipatse Village. Pedrio Biondo, Flickr

Through filmmaking, Indigenous communities are ensuring their cultures live on – and embrace the future

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

 

How will the isolated peoples of the Amazon survive?

GLF Live with Dr. Mark J. Plotkin

 
Looking up into the Peruvian Amazon. Anna & Michal, Flickr

U.N. science panel releases initial findings of upcoming overview of the Amazon

An international panel of 200 scientists has called for a halt to Amazon deforestation, warning that the rainforest stands on the brink of a tipping point.

 
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