Case Study

Every evening, a small group of villagers sets out on patrol along the banks of the Dikhu River in Mokokchung District, moving quietly through the forest with alert determination. Their…

The Managalas Conservation Area, in northern Papua New Guinea, was designated as such in March 2017 after over three decades of campaigning for its protection by Indigenous communities and a…

Nepal is the ancestral home to many Indigenous Peoples, speaking over 123 Indigenous languages and making up 35 percent (Census 2021) of the total population. In Nepal, the territories of…

“Birgejupmi” is a North Sámi word that roughly translates to “ways to manage.” It embodies the principle of only taking what you need, not exploiting nature’s resources, and ensuring the ability…

Across Africa’s rangelands, Indigenous pastoralist communities are advancing new approaches to conservation that centre rights, culture, and lived relationships with land. In Kenya’s Mid-Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, the Turkana community…

Before a child in the Karen Indigenous community of Ban Mae Yang Min in Chiang Rai tastes their first spoonful of rice, they are first fed fish.Yet these fish are…

Representatives of Besao partnered with Partners for Indigenous Knowledge Philippines (PIKP) to conduct land-use mapping of Besao’s four ancestral domains. The aim was to use the maps to update their…

Since 2003, the Amivada village in the Phalasia tehsil (subdistrict) has been protecting a 16-hectare section of common land, on which they began growing bamboo.

Keystone Foundation is working with communities to manage invasive species in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve in India, which is renowned for its diversity of both nature and peoples. However, invasive…

The Pasto Indigenous community in the Andean-Amazonian region of the Gran Tescual Reserve in Colombia is exercising its collective right to self-governance over its territory through a process based on…