A new commentary piece in Nature argues that the much-cited claim that Indigenous peoples protect 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is not only baseless, but wrong. Although scientists and ...
In 2022, governments around the world committed to protect 30% of the entire planet by 2030, nearly doubling the current coverage. They also agreed to respect the rights of Indigenous peoples, whose ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. What do you think of when you hear the word land? For Steven Davis, a member of the Lower Brule ...
The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...
LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - Prince William told investors, politicians and scientists on Thursday that Indigenous People had a crucial role to play in protecting nature in his latest call for urgent ...
LONDON, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, the indigenous community of Sungai Utik has been protecting 10,000 hectares of land for decades, ...
Amy Bowers Cordalis is many things: an attorney, a mother, a conservationist. But before all that, she was a member of the Yurok Tribe of California who grew up fishing on the Klamath River. Bowers ...
Introduction : the way forward -- Indigenous and scientific knowledge -- Untangling the historical origins of epistemological conflict -- Barriers to integrating indigenous knowledge into natural ...
In Western legal systems, arguments against pollution or the destruction of the environment tend to focus exclusively on people: It’s wrong to contaminate a river, for example, because certain humans ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. Taily Terena is a young Indigenous activist from Brazil of the Xané (Terena) ethnicity whose work centers on human rights, gender issues, youth and ...
The transfer of ownership is one of the largest returns of private land to Indigenous people in state history.