This year’s U.N. climate conference, COP28, featured much-improved Indigenous representation from last year’s event. Yet despite intensive lobbying by the more than 300 delegates, most Indigenous and civil society leaders were left disappointed at the end of the summit in Dubai. “You see Indigenous leaders and Indigenous youth in every corner of the venue … […]
Canadian mining company Belo Sun has filed a lawsuit against community leaders and environmental rights groups for invading and occupying company-owned land, in a case the defendants are calling an attempt to criminalize environmental defenders in the region. According to some lawyers and campaigners not involved in the case, the lawsuit lacks accuracy and Belo […]
A recent peer-reviewed study finds that community tropical forest management is a predictor of multiple positive outcomes, both socially and for the environment. According to the paper, published in Nature Climate Change, forest patches in tropical regions across Africa, Asia and Latin America that are managed by rural and Indigenous communities are associated with improved […]
Human rights, such as those of small-scale fishers, must be included in the global conservation goal to protect 30% of the world’s lands and oceans by 2030, say environmentalists, otherwise this proposed conservation target will fail and the livelihood of Indigenous people and local communities (IPLCs) around the world will be jeopardized. This is the […]
Today we’re taking a closer look at the important role of Indigenous peoples in biodiversity conservation with two key players. Listen here: We’re at something of an inflection point in the history of conservation and Indigenous engagement. So-called “fortress conservation,” which makes nature off-limits to human use altogether, even for Indigenous and local communities who […]