Equator Prize 2019 awarded to local and indigenous communities for local innovative climate solutions
UN, New York, USA2019
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and partners announced on June 5th, the winners of the 10th Equator Prize,…
Indigenous Peoples
Judgement of the International Court for the Rights of Nature -on the Isiboro Sécure Territory, Bolivia
International Court for the Rights of Nature2018
The International Court’s historic ruling urges the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to ensure the immediate…
Walking in Prayer with Grandmother Beatrice
Hart, Carole & Bruce (directors)2016
This short (10 minutes) movie is a tribute to Grandmother Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance, a recently departed…
Conserving territories of life
ICCA Consortium & LifeMosaic2019
Indigenous peoples and local communities around the world protect and care for their collective territories, lands and waters…
Conservation is more effective when based on culturals and spiritual values and local governance: global evidence
Paris, France6 May 2019
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services’ (IPBES) released a Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and…
Code of Ethical Conduct to Ensure Respect for the Cultural and Intellectual Heritage of Indigenous and Local Communities
Secretariat Convention on Biological Diversity2011
The Code of Ethical Conduct, adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2011, was named by a…
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers’ Warning – Kogi Message to Humanity
Ereira, Allan - BBC 1992
The Elder Brothers’ Warning to Humanity was the world’s primary introduction to the Kogi and their crucial message…
Value Change for Survival: All my relations
Oren Lyons / Jo Ag Quis Hi2012
This short film is part of eight testimonial videographic documents about the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and carries the eloquent…
Defendiendo con la vida el corazón del mundo
El Hilo de Ariadna: Calixto Suárez2016
Calixto Suarez, the spokesman for the Mamos of the Ik/Arahuaco indigenous people, has temporarily left his ancestral territory,…
Statement of Indigenous Kahu’âina Guardians of Sacred Lands
IUCN World Conservation Congress.2016
Representatives of several indigenous peoples and nations from countries around and within the Pacific ocean issued the declaration…