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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.

See also: What can be learned from Indigenous Peoples and their values?

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.
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Amazon Conservation Team
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Climate Justice Alliance
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Conservation news
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Rights to millions of hectares of Indigenous & local communities’ lands restored by ‘barefoot lawyers’
By Mike DiGirolamo Erik Hoffner, 2025-11-25

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By Sonam Lama Hyolmo Latoya Abulu, 2025-11-27

How religious beliefs may help protect Mentawai’s forests
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Indigenous guardians protecting the Amazon Trapeze continue to face challenges
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One small Indigenous territory emerges as illegal mining hotspot in Brazil’s Amazon
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Indigenous Dayak sound alarm as palm oil firm razes orangutan habitat in Borneo
By Hans Nicholas Jong Philip Jacobson, 2025-12-02

Loma Santa marks first Indigenous protected area in the Bolivian Amazon
By Iván Paredes Tamayo Jeremy Hance, 2025-12-03

Respecting uncontacted peoples can protect biodiversity and our humanity (commentary)
By Kerry Bowman Erik Hoffner, 2025-12-03

Brazilian Amazon’s most violent city tied to illegal gold mining on Indigenous land
By Shanna Hanbury Bobbybascomb, 2025-12-03

The Indigenous women changing the course of their communities
By Astrid Arellano Jeremy Hance, 2025-12-04

From COP30 to Sri Lanka, indigenous voices shape climate & food sovereignty
By Malaka Rodrigo Dilrukshi Handunnetti, 2025-12-05

Across Latin America populist regimes challenge nature conservation goals
By Timothy J. Killeen Mayra, 2025-12-08

Hope, solidarity & disappointment: A familiar mix for Indigenous delegates at COP30
By Hans Nicholas Jong Hans Nicholas Jong, 2025-12-10

Nepal Indigenous leaders refile writ petition against hydropower project
By Sonam Lama Hyolmo Abhaya Raj Joshi, 2025-12-12

Kenyan woman hugs tree for 72 hours in protest against loss of beloved trees
By Lynet Otieno Karen Coates, 2025-12-18

Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor
By Crispin KyalangalilwaElodie Toto Latoya Abulu, 2025-12-18

All new roads lead to increased deforestation in Ecuador’s Indigenous territory
By Ana Cristina Alvarado Jeremy Hance, 2025-12-19

BRICS+ offers Indigenous & local communities ways to advance environmental and social goals (analysis)
By Metolo Foyet Erik Hoffner, 2025-12-22

Will Australia’s main environment law continue marginalizing Indigenous authority, despite overhaul? (commentary)
By Ali KandiEmma Lee Erik Hoffner, 2025-12-22

A ‘national pride’ highway meets Indigenous resistance in ancient Nepali settlements
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Fights against development projects marks 2025 for Nepal’s Indigenous people
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Top 10 Indigenous news stories that marked 2025
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Guatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
By Gonzalo Ortuño López Alexandrapopescu, 2026-01-02

‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees
By Xilena Pinedo Latoya Abulu, 2026-01-02

Cultural changes shift an Indigenous community’s relationship with the Amazon forest
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2026-01-05

Urban sprawl and illegal mining reshape a fragile Amazon frontier
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2026-01-06

Indigenous women lead a firefighting brigade in Brazil’s Cerrado
By Mongabay.com Bobbybascomb, 2026-01-07

AI-centered conservation efforts can only be ethical if Indigenous people help lead them (commentary)
By Magali de BruynMcKalee Steen Erik Hoffner, 2026-01-09

When Indigenous knowledge enters the scientific record
By Rhett Ayers Butler Shreya Dasgupta, 2026-01-12

Environment | The Guardian
The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis
By Guillaume Petermann, 2025-11-26

Food is medicine, and that’s a fact. Why we all need Native American foodways
By Kate Nelson, 2025-11-27

Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations tribes fear another ‘worst-case scenario’
By Leyland Cecco in Bella Bella and Toronto, Canada, 2025-12-07

The loggers and ranchers are closing in but still Brazil’s Kawahiva people wait for protection
By John Reid and Daniel Biasetto, 2025-12-07

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By Claudia Ignacio Álvarez, 2026-01-06

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Happy Eco News
Indigenous Leadership Establishes Haida Gwaii Protected Marine Areas
By Grant Brown, 2025-11-26

Indigenous Climate Hub
Bridging Knowledge Systems: Indigenous Nations and Academia Collaborate on Climate Research in Canada
By IndigenousClimateHub, 2025-12-15

Inside Climate News
A New Tropical Forest Fund Will Pay Countries, Locals and Indigenous Tribes to Protect Their Trees
By Interview by Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering, Living on Earth, 2025-11-22

How Indigenous Cultural Burns Can Help Heal Climate-Ravaged Forests—and People
By Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, Living on Earth, 2025-11-29

Wisconsin Tribes Have Helped the Lake Sturgeon Recover. Climate Change Is Stressing Its Ability to Adapt.
By Stefan Lovgren, 2025-12-10

Indigenous Groups Fight to Save Rediscovered Settlement Site on an Industrial Waterfront in Texas
By Dylan Baddour, 2025-12-23

REVOLVE
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