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.

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Amazon Conservation Team
How Indigenous Communities Are Shaping the Future of Coastal Conservation
By Barbara Illana, 2026-07-06

How Technology Is Empowering Indigenous-Led Coastal Conservation
By Barbara Illana, 2026-07-16

An Amazonian Food Atlas Is Shared with the Communities That Nourished It
By Anna Casey, 2026-07-16

The Nadëb and Kanamary Peoples Launch Territorial and Environmental Management Plans (PGTAs), Reinforcing a Collective Commitment to Protecting Their Territories and Upholding Their Rights
By Barbara Illana, 2026-07-21

Mapping with Indigenous and local communities to help protect the Amazon
By Brian Hettler, 2026-07-30

Every Restoration Begins with a Seed
By Barbara Illana, 2026-08-06

Conservation news
Deforestation is just a symptom. The disease is de-governance (commentary)
By Ambrosius Ruwindrijarto Erik Hoffner, 2026-06-23

Global pressure on ayahuasca threatens Amazonian plants and knowledge systems
By Carlos Minuano Xavier Bartaburu, 2026-06-23

Fire surge in 2025 threatened isolated peoples in Brazil
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2026-06-24

New Indonesia roadmap aims to protect Indigenous knowledge for biodiversity
By Hans Nicholas Jong Hans Nicholas Jong, 2026-07-02

New data reveals surge in human rights abuses linked to transition minerals mining
By Aimee Gabay Bobbybascomb, 2026-07-03

NGO support can negatively impact allocation of Amazonian territorial rights, research finds
By Aimee Gabay Bobbybascomb, 2026-07-06

In AI race, Indigenous values could guide environmental issues, researchers suggest
By Shradha Triveni Latoya Abulu, 2026-07-07

Lawmakers seek rights probe into Indigenous conflict at Indonesian timber firm
By Hans Nicholas Jong Hans Nicholas Jong, 2026-07-09

Indigenous advocates push for rights protections around AI data centers
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2026-07-16

Scientific & traditional knowledge are key for effective & community-centered conservation (commentary)
By Charudutt Mishra Erik Hoffner, 2026-07-20

An Indigenous take on Colombia’s new gov’t: Interview with a Putumayo Indigenous leader
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2026-07-22

Third year of wildfires threaten isolated Indigenous group in Bolivia
By Shanna Hanbury Bobbybascomb, 2026-07-22

For Brazil’s Xokleng people, saving a sacred tree means saving their culture
By Letícia Klein Xavier Bartaburu, 2026-07-23

Khuiusi Khisêtjê helped his people recover their land and future in the Xingu
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2026-07-24

Brazil court orders recognition of Indigenous land and apology for historic atrocities
By Shanna Hanbury Bobbybascomb, 2026-07-29

First Nations lead the return of salmon to Canada’s Upper Columbia River
By Ruth Kamnitzer Latoya Abulu, 2026-07-29

Indigenous Parakanã fear election U-turn may spark new invasions in Brazil
By Fernanda Wenzel Alexandre de Santi, 2026-07-29

How can Indigenous knowledge reshape AI development?
By Mongabay.com Naina Rao, 2026-07-30

Report: Indonesian authorities weaponize laws to silence environmental and Indigenous defenders
By Naina Rao Shreya Dasgupta, 2026-07-30

Palm oil expansion reignites decade-old Indigenous land conflict in Indonesia
By Hans Nicholas JongNiken D. Sitoningrum Philip Jacobson, 2026-07-31

PUMA FEST and the community Mongabay Latam has helped build
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2026-08-03

Sacred places & living lands: How Indigenous Sámi peoples steward biodiversity (analysis)
By Emil Siekkinen Erik Hoffner, 2026-08-07

How Sri Lanka’s heirloom rice can preserve Indigenous farming and help manage disease
By Kamanthi Wickramasinghe Dilrukshi Handunnetti, 2026-08-08

‘This is what’s working’: Indigenous leaders on environment solutions in their communities
By Latoya Abulu Latoya Abulu, 2026-08-09

Meet the Indigenous women restoring Kenya’s Mau Forest — and reshaping gender roles
By Juliet Akoth Ojwang Karen Coates, 2026-08-11

Indigenous groups renew legal challenge to Indonesian conservation law
By Basten Gokkon Yenni Kwok, 2026-08-13

How the first published Indigenous ethnobotanist & elders recorded their people’s medicinal knowledge
By Karla Mendes Latoya Abulu, 2026-08-13

Earth911
Sustainability In Your Ear: Cody Two Bears on Indigenized Energy’s Community-Centric Grid Strategy
By Mitch Ratcliffe, 2026-07-20

Environment | The Guardian
Species’ ingenious survival strategies no match for human destruction, red list reveals
By Damian Carrington Environment editor, 2026-07-09

Greenpeace International
We are locked in a legal battle against six of New Zealand’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters
By Mike Smith, 2026-07-30

Indigenous resistance is key to building a post-extractive future
By Tsering Lama, 2026-08-07

Wildfires and climate change: Why the smell of smoke is a global health warning
By Julie Amira rnes, 2026-08-03

Happy Eco News
Hawaiian Ahupua’a Food System Restoration Revives Ancient Terraces Feeding Communities Through Indigenous Water Management
By Cyrene Oraya Reyes, 2026-06-29

Species Conservation is Scaling Up as Five Global Trends Transform Wildlife Recovery
By Grant Brown, 2026-07-08

Indigenous Women-Led Amazon Reforestation Establishes Nurseries Across Seven Guajajara Communities
By Cyrene Oraya Reyes, 2026-07-20

Sea Country Indigenous Protected Area Marks a New Chapter for Conservation in Australia
By Bente Baekers, 2026-07-20

How Maasai Women Leading Conservation in Kenya are Healing the Land
By Elena Kryvoshei, 2026-07-29

FOLONA Hub Grows Refugee-Led Permaculture Education in Uganda from Nakivale Settlement
By Elena Kryvoshei, 2026-08-11

Inside Climate News
Bay Program Delays Decision on Tribes’ Place in Chesapeake Agreement
By Aman Azhar, 2026-07-15

The Revelator
Eagle and Condor: How Ecuador Translated Indigenous Cosmology Into Constitutional Law
By Antoni Łukasik, 2026-08-06

Yale Climate Connections
Indigenous Earth Fund distributes $5 million to Indigenous-led projects
By YCC Team, 2026-07-13

Coeur d’Alene Tribe saves with solar-powered rec center
By YCC Team, 2026-07-17

Menominee Nation elders are getting solar and battery systems
By YCC Team, 2026-07-28

‘The Earth itself was screaming out:’ Bay Mills Indian Community fights pipeline permitting while enveloped in wildfire smoke
By Samantha Harrington, 2026-08-10

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