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The Amazon We Need expedition
The Amazon is an ancient forest, home to incredible animals and unknown species. Indigenous Peoples, traditional communities, and environmental activists are among those who are working to protect it amid…
Rosana Villar • 5 min read -
Indigenous leaders demand Indigenous rights respected by UN biodiversity summit
Indigenous leaders traveled this week to Nairobi to demand that the UN biodiversity summit officially recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and their central roles in protecting biodiversity.
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It’s time to put Indigenous Peoples first at the UN biodiversity talks
The world is waking up to a tragic fact, year on year: deforestation is happening on a scale and at a rate that amounts to nature collapsing.
Irene Wabiwa Betoko • 4 min read -
We need to get it right
Let’s talk about the Amazon that we need — as an act of resistance, Let’s talk about the fight for land rights. Let’s talk about traditional cultures that respect the forest, biodiversity, science and everything that is necessary to move forward.
Carol Pasquali • 3 min read -
Farmers fight for the right to use Indigenous seeds
Farmers from around Kenya are standing up to oppose a discriminatory new law passed by the Kenyan government that restricts the exchange or sale of Indigenous seeds – “the local…
August Rick • 2 min read -
Montreal-bound biodiversity COP must recognise the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in protecting nature
Negotiators must take advantage of this week’s Nairobi intersessional meetings to focus on the key policy issue: recognising the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and their key roles in protecting biodiversity.
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What does drought sound like: a collective artistic composition in Chile
Chile has the greatest water crisis in the entire Western Hemisphere. So Greenpeace global project, Roots, carried out a collective artistic project in Chile against the privatisation of water together with the local community
Rosario Coll • 6 min read -
Indonesian migrant fishers declare victory in new regulation that ensures their protection and rights
It's a significant milestone towards curbing illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and abuse within the industrial fishing industry.
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7 ways Gen-Z (and you) can get involved in climate action now
The system is deeply unjust. Those impacted first and worst by ecological crisis have done least to cause it. Here is what the youth can do about it.
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Why protecting the oceans means protecting people
World Oceans Day isn’t just about marine wildlife. When we fail to protect the oceans, we’re failing to protect ourselves.
Rima Sonigara • 4 min read