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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.

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
The Amazon Conservation Team joins call for academia to support Indigenous science and equitable conservation
By Anna Casey, 2026-04-01

Esri highlights ACT mapping work with Indigenous communities
By Amazon Conservation Team, 2026-04-03

A Message from Indigenous Leadership Fellows
By Amazon Conservation Team, 2026-04-09

Award-Winning Map Advocates for the Protection of Isolated Indigenous Peoples of South America
By Amazon Conservation Team, 2026-04-24

Dr. Mark Plotkin Speaks to WWLTV on Indigenous Plant Medicine and Psychedelic Research
By Amazon Conservation Team, 2026-04-27

From Territory to Global Dialogue: “One Health” Connects Indigenous Knowledge and Public Policy
By Barbara Illana, 2026-05-08

Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Receives a New Level of Protection
By Amazon Conservation Team, 2026-06-04

Conservation news
As traditional forest governance erodes in Peru, ‘ghost permits’ fill the vacuum
By Michele Calamaio Latoya Abulu, 2026-03-30

In Peru, Indigenous women work to save an ancestral potato from disappearance
By Astrid Arellano Xavier Bartaburu, 2026-03-31

State fishing village plan in Indonesian Papua sparks Indigenous opposition
By Basten Gokkon Basten Gokkon, 2026-04-01

Working together, Indigenous peoples & researchers describe new Amazonian palm
By Sofia Moutinho Alexandrapopescu, 2026-04-01

Indonesian geothermal projects stall amid Indigenous concerns over justice
By Mongabay.com Naina Rao, 2026-04-03

Māori knowledge shows climate change domino effects on forest food chains
By Monica Evans Latoya Abulu, 2026-04-14

Brazil: Satellites expose rampant gold mining expansion on Indigenous Kayapó land
By Shanna Hanbury Bobbybascomb, 2026-04-15

War, climate change, and AI on the agenda at this year’s U.N. Indigenous forum
By Anita Hofschneider Latoya Abulu, 2026-04-20

Goldman Prize winner Alannah Hurley fights Pebble Mine “from a place of love”
By Claudia Geib Latoya Abulu, 2026-04-20

Indigenous peoples’ health cannot be separated from the environment, U.N. delegates warn
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2026-04-22

Indigenous knowledge helps identify new, highly threatened skink in Australia
By Megan Strauss Shreya Dasgupta, 2026-04-24

AI is a double-edged sword for Indigenous stewardship, say U.N. experts
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2026-04-24

‘Creamy, nutty’ spiders are protein source for Indigenous Indian tribe
By Megan Strauss Shreya Dasgupta, 2026-04-30

Killings related to land conflicts double in Brazil, most in the Amazon region
By Shanna Hanbury Bobbybascomb, 2026-05-05

Using songlines, elders codify traditional knowledge to care for Country
By Anthony Ham Latoya Abulu, 2026-05-07

What Indigenous youth filmmaking reveals about environmental communication (commentary)
By Jamille Pinheiro Dias Erik Hoffner, 2026-05-07

Crime affects 32% of Amazon Indigenous areas, says study
By Yvette Sierra Praeli Alexandre de Santi, 2026-05-11

New data platform aims to reduce conflicts between First Nations and businesses in Canada
By Olivia Ferrari Latoya Abulu, 2026-05-12

Philippine fishing and Indigenous communities wary of clean energy boom in Marcos stronghold
By Michael Beltran Isabel Esterman, 2026-05-18

‘Turkana has always adapted to change’: Interview with environmentalist Ikal Angelei
By Christopher Clark Terna Gyuse, 2026-05-19

Givaldo Santos, Kaiowá and Guarani leader, was killed on May 1st, aged 40
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2026-05-22

‘Corporate capture’ of critical minerals risks repeating DRC’s extractive past, warns indigenous leader
By David Akana Malavikavyawahare, 2026-05-22

Brooklyn Rivera, defender of Nicaragua’s Indigenous lands, dies in detention
By Rhett Ayers Butler Rhett Butler, 2026-06-01

Descendants of people pushed out for DRC national park lead forest conservation efforts
By Jérémie Kyaswekera Latoya Abulu, 2026-06-02

Legal protections for Brazil’s isolated Indigenous peoples: Interview with prosecutor Daniel Luís Dalberto
By Aimee Gabay Latoya Abulu, 2026-06-03

Local indigenous people get more land in a DRC community forest
By Mongabay.com Bobbybascomb, 2026-06-04

Indigenous communities in eastern Indonesia revive systems for marine protection
By Mongabay.com Naina Rao, 2026-06-05

DeSmog
How Canada’s LNG Push is Benefiting Trump and Shortchanging Indigenous People
By Taylor Noakes, 2026-05-01

Environment | The Guardian
‘The birds are a global citizen’: Indigenous groups in Australia and Alaska team up to track a feathered adventurer’s epic journey
By Sarah Collard Indigenous affairs correspondent, 2026-04-25

Happy Eco News
Indigenous-led Renewable Energy Systems Protect Rights and Ecosystems
By Cyrene Oraya Reyes, 2026-04-22

Shared Struggles, Shared Strength: The Continuing Story of Cordillera Day
By Mariz Guiniawan, 2026-04-24

Indigenous Knowledge on Biodiversity Leads to Recognition of Rare Philippine Plant
By Cyrene Oraya Reyes, 2026-05-13

How Community Wellbeing in the Xipaya Indigenous Territory is Supporting Brazilian Amazon Conservation
By Health In Harmony, 2026-05-20

Indigenous Approaches to Healing the Mind-Nature Divide Offer New Pathways
By Grant Brown, 2026-05-20

How Women-Led Conservation Enterprises in Kenya are Restoring Land and Rebuilding Livelihoods
By Elena Kryvoshei, 2026-05-25

Indigenous Climate Hub
The River Is Telling Us Something: Indigenous-Led Water Monitoring as Canada’s Climate Early Warning System
By IndigenousClimateHub, 2026-05-15

Inside Climate News
What the US Could Learn About Mining on Indigenous Peoples’ Ancestral Lands
By Johanna Hansel, Carla Samon Ros, Wyatt Myskow, 2026-05-03

Inside the Indigenous Fight to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay
By Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth, 2026-05-09

After a Century Powering Its Growth With Dams, Seattle Settles With Tribes That Lost Their River
By Blaine Harden, 2026-05-13

Mongabay Kids
Traditional fishing in the Colombian Amazon
By Megan Strauss, 2026-04-13

Natural Building Blog
A Peaceful Village in Vietnam with Traditional Houses
By Kelly Hart, 2026-04-14

The Common Ground Commune in India
By Kelly Hart, 2026-04-28

State of the Planet
Indigenous Herders and Peru’s Melting Glaciers: A Conversation with Anthropologist Allison Caine
By Guest, 2026-04-23

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