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Whanganui River recognised as a legal person, New Zealand

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Linking community-based monitoring and reporting of oil pollution to environmental enforcement: FECONACO’s Territorial Monitoring Programme

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Environmental leadership workshops for indigenous youth in Mountain Province, Philippines

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Traditional knowledge and customary sustainable practices to conserve the endangered red panda in Ilam, Nepal

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Community-based monitoring of ancestral land and resources in an urban setting: the experience of the Ibaloy community of Muyot, Baguio City, the Philippines

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The right to citizenship among Baka, Bagyeli and Bedzang in Cameroon

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Development of cultural indicators to monitor Kauri dieback disease in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Beehives in a Mayan community in Mexico. Credit: Alessandro Banchelli.

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El Balché: Sacred trees and bees of the Maya people, Mexico

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Local government regulations support community-led natural resource management in Thailand

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Children of the water: Plan de Vida (Life Plan) of the Misak people, Colombia

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The Ogiek’s experience with protected areas in Mount Elgon, Kenya: Ways towards rights-based conservation

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Addressing drought through revival of a historic reservoir: Barnes Hill Community, Antigua and Barbuda

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The Kalanguya experience of community-based monitoring and information systems in Tinoc, Ifugao, Philippines.

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Defining Alaskan Inuit food security as food sovereignty

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A ritual to call for an end to torrential rain in Indonesia

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World Heritage listing as a tool to heal Gunditjmara Country; Budj Bim Indigenous Protected Area, Australia

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The Wampís Nation demand national and international recognition for conserving and protecting their territory

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Story from the Northern Territory, Australia: Dabboh and Smoke Money: Burning the Bush for People and Country

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Bio-cultural protocol of the traditional healers of snake bite, Sri Lanka

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Indigenous peoples’ protected and conserved areas: the pathway to Canada’s Target 1

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Communities tackle beach pollution in Antigua and Barbuda

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Indigenous monitoring of silk moths in the Arctic and Siberia

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Communities in Pitas, Sabah, Malaysia fight to protect mangroves

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Sharian: the Wampis Academy of Leaders, Peru

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Traditional herders are needed to safeguard biodiversity of species-rich grasslands in Central Europe

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Sakatia Island (ICCA), Madagascar

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Indigenous Digir women maintain food security for their community.

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Using traditional Miskitu governance practices to care for waterways in Nicaragua

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Indigenous peoples participate in NBSAP processes in Costa Rica

Kaqchikel farmer tending to his crops. Credit: Latitude Stock.

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Maya early-warning systems in Guatemala

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Protecting community-led conservation of Wapichan wiizi in Guyana

Drying salmon in Alaska, an activity impacted by changing weather conditions that are now not aligning with traditional harvesting times. Credit: Karen Kasmauski.

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Climate change and food sovereignty in the Arctic

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Ruma’mus Ung Gio: A ritual to honour ancestral connections to a sacred spring in Indonesia

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Getting REDD+ to work for IPLCs in Vietnam

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Watershed conservation by indigenous communities of Taloy Sur, Tuba, Benguet, the Philippines

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The making of the Endorois people’s bio-cultural protocol, Kenya

A giant otter with fish in its mouth in Guyana

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Wapichan Monitoring Programme, Guyana

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Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council

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Sustainable use and conservation of the green turtle by the Miskitu indigenous people, Nicaragua

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Finding positive ways to use invasive species in Benin

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Pgaz K’ynau create a thriving social enterprise in north Thailand

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Restoration and reforestation of the Cañamomo Lomaprieta Indigenous Reserve, Colombia

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Tribes address salmon declines in the US Pacific Northwest

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Identifying impacts and threats to vulnerable ecosystems in Guna Yala, Panama

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Engendering biodiversity: Zenú Women, San Andrés De Sotavento, Colombia

A Maya Q’eqchi attorney addresses the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples Issues. Credit: Jamie Malcolm-Brown.

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Safeguarding lands and territories: court cases mounted by the Maya, Belize

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Wapichan people’s plan to secure and care for their lands, Guyana

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Community-based vulnerability and resilience mapping and adaptation practices in the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, Bangladesh

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Indigenous peoples’ education in Filipino schools

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Exploring a labelling scheme for biocultural heritage-based products

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The potential impact of small grants: GEF-SGP support for Walling Nature Reserve, Antigua-Barbuda

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Baiga people living with Earth, central India

A traditional Mi’kmaw fisher from Pictou Landing, Mi’kmaq territory. Credit: Amy Moulton.

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The Wampis nation in the Peruvian Amazon declares the creation of the first autonomous indigenous government

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Pgaz K’Nyau community social enterprise as alternative livelihoods for young generations, northern Thailand

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Control of invasive pond apple infestations by indigenous rangers in a World Heritage Area, North-east Queensland, Australia

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The community-based tagal system in Sabah, Malaysia

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Controlling the invasive Gmelina and bringing back biodiversity in Kalinga, Philippines

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Criminalisation of a Dayak community in Long Isun, Kalimantan, Indonesia

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Bottom-up conservation making a real impact on land and sea in Madagascar

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Community mapping projects prove Ogiek land belongs to them

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The Gwich’in and the porcupine caribou herd, North America

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Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, Indonesia: indigenous Dayak try to save forest, river and lake habitats under threat from palm oil expansion

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Shipibo-Conibo people defend their territories from palm oil in the Peruvian Amazon

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Vueti Navakavu: A success story from Fiji

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Restoring community lands in Galicia, Spain to adapt to climate change

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Reducing and reusing waste in the Guna Yala region, Panama

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Revitalising indigenous food systems in Besao, Mountain Province, the Philippines

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Indigenous women in land and sea management, Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia

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Good practice for collaborative environmental impact assessment: Raglan Nickel Mine, northern Quebec, Canada

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Hagyományos pásztorokra van szükség ahhoz, hogy Közép-Európa fajokban gazdag gyepterületeinek biodiverzitása megmaradjon

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An invader in our waters: actions of Guna People (Panama) in relation to the Lion Fish

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Conserving Mu Billi (the ocean): a step towards collective territorial rights in Panama

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Loko iʻa: Indigenous aquaculture and mariculture in Hawaiʻi, USA

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Monitoring seagrass in the Torres Strait, Australia

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Climate change adaptation: Restoring community common lands in Galicia, Spain

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Community-based documentation of positive contributions of traditional rotational farming to carbon sequestration and ecosystem resilience, Thailand

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Standing with Indian Country: President Obama’s 2017 Fiscal Budget

Making imbuleh, an indigenous dish from the Cordillera. Credit: PIKP.

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Heirloom recipes of the Cordillera, Philippines

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How members of the Maya Kaqchikel community predict changes in the weather

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The Network of Weavers of the Indigenous Reserve of Ipiales, Colombia

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Zenu Indigenous women grow crops for their community

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The traditional land use system of the Lua (La-weu) peoples in northern Thailand

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Salmon conservation, indigenous education, and knowledge co-production in Kamchatka

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How an indigenous group in Far-East Russia fought to protect their lands: the creation of Bikin National Park

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The Rooibos Benefit-Sharing Agreement: Breaking new ground with respect, honesty, fairness, and care, South Africa

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IPLCs making good use of REDD+ in Vietnam

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Managing mangroves in Madagascar: women’s associations enhance conservation and livelihoods

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History of the Ngati Hine pilot program for the monitoring, recovery, and protection of eels

Created in 2015, Bikin National Park is is the largest protected virgin forest in Eurasia’s pre-temperate zone. Credit: Dilbara Sharipova.

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Bikin National Park: innovative co-management in the Russian Federation

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