Gateway to Climate Change and the Environment

Room 8 - Indigenous Values, Traditions, Fights for Rights.

Values and Traditions

Indigenous knowledge, practices and lifestyles can be relevant and beneficial for sustainable living and our environment in modern times.

Action Network - Indigenous Peoples Movement, collective of various indigenous peoples from all over the world.

Cherokee Riverkeepers - Respect for the consciousness, healing powers and wisdom of rivers.

Google Books - Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Concepts and Cases. (Read free of charge.)

Indigenous Vision - Works to revitalize Indigenous communities by providing educational resources that promote well-being.

Mongabay - Conservation News: Indigenous peoples' stewardship of natural resources is increasingly being recognized as a critical priority.

Wikipedia - Traditional ecological knowledge, (TEK) describes indigenous and other traditional knowledge of local resources.

Indigenous Rights and Fights

Premier's statement on the anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Sadly, many indigenous peoples are struggling to maintain rights to their land and to the Earth resources they protect. Mining, logging, dams and deforestation for agricultural purposes are imposed by outside interests. Many indigenous activists have been violently attacked, criminalized and murdered and the threats are growing worldwide.

BBC News - Over 1,700 environment activists killed in decade (report), environmental activist killed every two days.

Native Americans are at the heart of Yellowstone - After 150 years, they are finally being heard.

'Grandmothers are our weather app' - New maps and local knowledge power, Chad's climate fightback.

Law Library - Introduction to Indigenous Peoples' Civil Rights, fights to obtain civil liberties from the nations that colonized them.

Wikipedia - Indigenous rights that exist in recognition of the specific condition of the Indigenous peoples.

YaleEnvironment360 - Amazon Defender Stands Up for Her Land and Her People: dam projects, illegal loggers and miners.

Video message by UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on 2024 International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.

Indigenous group dancers at Amis Music Festival.(Wikimedia Commons)

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Amazon Conservation Team
Without Territory, There Is No Climate Justice for the Kokama People
By Barbara Illana, 2025-07-21

Indigenous Women March for Territories and Life
By Barbara Illana, 2025-08-11

How to protect isolated Indigenous peoples without harmful contact
By Anna Casey, 2025-08-13

Largest Reserve for Isolated Indigenous Peoples Could Be Approved in Peru
By Anna Casey, 2025-09-03

Peru Fails to Seize Critical Opportunity to Create World’s Largest Reserve for Isolated Peoples
By Anna Casey, 2025-09-03

A People Who Resist Collectively: The Gathering of the Wai Wai
By Barbara Illana, 2025-09-22

One Health, Indigenous Knowledge, and Climate Action at COP30
By Barbara Illana, 2025-10-15

Climate 411
From Bonn to London, Indigenous voices raise expectations for COP30 Belem
By Bärbel Henneberger, 2025-07-03

Climate Desk
A tribe in Florida joins the fight against the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigrant detention center
By Michael Mechanic, 2025-07-17

Climate Justice Alliance
Climate Justice Alliance, GreenLatinos, Indigenous Environmental Network, and WE ACT for Environmental Justice Lead 89 Organizations in Opposing DOE’S NEPA Rollback
By Olivia, 2025-08-05

Climate Law Blog
From Crisis to Care: Narratives of Repair in the Cordilleras
By Joy Reyes and Francis San Juan, 2025-10-15

Climate Majority Project
Ancient Myths and Legends
By Greg Dance, 2025-08-12

Conservation news
How Cambodia’s new environmental code undermines Indigenous peoples’ rights (commentary)
By Rithy Bun Erik Hoffner, 2025-07-30

Court convictions are the exception in Amazon land-grabbing cases, study shows
By Fernanda Wenzel Bobbybascomb, 2025-08-06

Indigenous alliance unveils Brazil’s first Native-led emissions strategy
By Aimee Gabay Shreya Dasgupta, 2025-08-09

The making of an autonomous Indigenous nation in Peru’s Amazon
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2025-09-03

New report recommends ways to increase women’s access to funding
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2025-09-05

Park guardians or destroyers? Study dissects 2 narratives of DRC’s Indigenous Batwa
By Blaise Kasereka Makuta Karen Coates, 2025-09-11

Photos: Indigenous elders push for comeback of the revered Philippine crocodile
By Giacomo d’Orlando Latoya Abulu, 2025-09-11

Forests on Indigenous lands help protect health in the Amazon
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2025-09-12

Protecting Indigenous Amazon lands may also protect public health, study says
By Constance Malleret Alexandrapopescu, 2025-09-19

Peru court upholds 28 years in prison for loggers in Indigenous murders
By Geraldine Santos, Latoya Abulu, 2025-09-26

Indigenous myths reveal Amazon’s past truths: Interview with Stéphen Rostain
By Peter Speetjens, Alexandre de Santi, 2025-10-01

Climate change puts pressure on reindeer populations, both wild & domestic herds
By Sonam Lama Hyolmo Latoya Abulu, 2025-10-01

Putumayo’s women guardians defend land and culture amid Colombia’s deforestation
By Natalia Arbelaez Latoya Abulu, 2025-10-15

Mamai Lucille Williams, a quiet symbol of dignity amid destruction, has died, aged about 93
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2025-10-16

Earth911
Best of Sustainability In Your Ear: Cool Earth’s Hannah Peck Collaborates With Indigenous Communities To Preserve The Planet’s Remaining Rainforests
By Mitch Ratcliffe, 2025-10-08

Environment | The Guardian
‘We don’t want to be climate refugees’: Torres Strait uncles fear for their islands and their people
By Australian Associated Press, 2025-07-12

Where have all the crabs gone? How development is squeezing out southern Malaysia’s sea people
By Guardian Staff, 2025-08-28

Indigenous Climate Hub
The Language of the Land: Revitalizing Indigenous Languages for Ecological Understanding
By IndigenousClimateHub, 2025-07-15

Healing the Land, Healing Ourselves: Climate Grief and Indigenous Ceremonial Practices
By IndigenousClimateHub, 2025-08-01

When the Land Speaks Through Fire: Indigenous Wisdom, Memory, and Stewardship of the Living Landscape
By IndigenousClimateHub, 2025-09-01

Healing in the Time of Climate Change: Indigenous Ways of Knowing for Mental Health and the More-Than-Human World
By IndigenousClimateHub, 2025-09-15

Re-Constituting Indigenous Food Economies: The Promise of Plant-Based Regeneration
By IndigenousClimateHub, 2025-10-01

The Waters Speak: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change in the Maritimes
By IndigenousClimateHub, 2025-10-15

Inside Climate News
Chesapeake Bay Program Says No to Full Membership for Virginia Tribal Nations—for Now
By Aman Azhar, 2025-06-27

To Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe, the Lands Around Alligator Alcatraz Are Sacred, Pythons and All
By Amy Green, 2025-08-06

Tribal Solar Projects Meet Different Fates In Wyoming After Trump Administration Kills Funding
By Jake Bolster, 2025-08-16

Court Temporarily Halts Land Transfer That Would Allow a Mine to Destroy Western Apache Sacred Land
By Wyatt Myskow, 2025-08-19

The Colorado River Is This Tribe’s ‘Lifeblood,’ Now They Want To Give It the Same Legal Rights as a Person
By Alex Hager, KUNC, 2025-08-26

In Far Northeastern Maine, a Native Community Fights to Adapt to Climate Change
By Sydney Cromwell, 2025-08-30

Peru to Consider New Reserve for Uncontacted Indigenous People
By Nicholas Kusnetz, 2025-09-03

Peru Votes Against Creating New Indigenous Reserve in Amazon Region
By Nicholas Kusnetz, 2025-09-05

Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find
By Katie Surma, 2025-09-11

As Millions Face Climate Relocation, the Nation’s First Attempt Sparks Warnings and Regret
By Terry L. Jones and Evan Simon, Floodlight, 2025-09-28

Three Killings Per Week
By , 2025-10-05

Planet Forward
Introducing the 2025-2026 Planet Forward Ilíiaitchik: Indigenous Correspondents!
By Alexander Cotnoir, 2025-08-26

The Revelator
Rare Earth Metals Must Not Come at the Cost of Indigenous Rights
By Emil Siekkinen, 2025-09-17

Yale Climate Connections
Native Alaskan communities reeling in wake of Typhoon Halong’s remnants
By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters, 2025-10-15

Alaska Native communities reeling in wake of Typhoon Halong’s remnants
By Bob Henson and Jeff Masters, 2025-10-15

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