Mongabay News

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing

Indigenous knowledge confirms a trend scientists have observed- large bird populations are declining faster than small birds.
YES! Magazine

How Indigenous Knowledge Reconnects Us All to Fire

“Our human relationship with fire goes back thousands and thousands of years,” says Damon Panek, wildland fires operations specialist for the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and enrolled ...
Beyond Pesticides

On Indigenous Peoples Day, Highlighting Indigenous Knowledge To Address the Biodiversity Crisis

(Beyond Pesticides, October 9, 2023) On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the world turns its attention to the invaluable wisdom that Indigenous communities possess, highlighting their crucial role in ...
Government Technology

How Indigenous Knowledge Is Changing Natural Hazard Mitigation

All around the world natural disasters continue to wreak havoc as emergency managers strive for new ways to reduce the damage through sound mitigation practices. At the same time, several indigenous ...
Science Daily

The quiet loss of knowledge threatens indigenous communities

Most of the knowledge that indigenous communities in South America have about plants is not written down. Now, ecologists at the University of Zurich have analyzed comprehensive information about the ...
Grist

For Indigenous communities, protecting traditional knowledge means reimagining how it is preserved

This story is part of Fix’s Mentorship Issue exploring the unique ways climate leaders found their calling, and how new approaches to mentorship are upending old power structures. Check out the full ...
Outside

Paying Lip Service to Indigenous Knowledge Won’t Fix Climate Change

Len Necefer, Ph.D., is the CEO and Founder of NativesOutdoors. Len has worked for the U.S. Department of Energy, the NASA Glenn Research Center, and most recently the University of Arizona. His ...
Panda

WWF-Thailand project serves as key example of conservation knowledge collaboration with indigenous peoples

A number of WWF projects worldwide, including WWF-Thailand’s past project in the Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary (part of the Western Forest Complex), are the focus of a new WWF document ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Climate Change Adaptation Policy: Evidence from Valunia Chiefdom, Bo District, Sierra Leone ()

Climate change remains a great challenge to rural livelihoods in Sierra Leone, especially in agricultural communities that depend on climate-sensitive resources. Although indigenous knowledge has been ...
Mother Jones

DC Regulators Are Welcoming Indigenous Knowledge—and the Right Is Freaking Out

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last September, when the Biden administration canceled several oil and gas leases in ...
Santa Clara University

This new app combines LiDAR-based mapping and indigenous agricultural knowledge

In the dense jungles of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, an invisible laser beam slices through the canopy, bouncing off the earth and back to the airplane it came from… LiDAR technology has been used in ...