Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world’s primates from extinction

Science Advances, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 8(32)

Published: Aug. 10, 2022

Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats play critical roles sustaining healthy ecosystems that benefit human nonhuman communities. Approximately 68% primate species threatened with extinction because global pressures to convert their for agricultural production extraction natural resources. Here, we review scientific literature conduct spatial analysis assess significance Indigenous Peoples’ lands safeguarding biodiversity. We found account 30% range, 71% these lands. As on increases, less likely be classified as or have declining populations. Safeguarding lands, languages, cultures represents our greatest chance prevent world’s primates.

Language: Английский

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Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights

Science Advances, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 9(23)

Published: June 7, 2023

To what extent do extractive and industrial development pressures affect Indigenous Peoples' lifeways, lands, rights globally? We analyze 3081 environmental conflicts over projects to quantify exposure 11 reported social-environmental impacts jeopardizing the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Peoples. Peoples are affected in at least 34% all documented worldwide. More than three-fourths these caused by mining, fossil fuels, dam projects, agriculture, forestry, fisheries, livestock (AFFL) sector. Landscape loss (56% cases), livelihood (52%), land dispossession (50%) occur globally most often significantly more frequent AFFL The resulting burdens jeopardize impede realization global justice.

Language: Английский

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Loss of terrestrial biodiversity in Australia: Magnitude, causation, and response

Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 381(6658), P. 622 - 631

Published: Aug. 10, 2023

Australia’s biota is species rich, with high rates of endemism. This natural legacy has rapidly diminished since European colonization. The impacts invasive species, habitat loss, altered fire regimes, and changed water flows are now compounded by climate change, particularly through extreme drought, heat, wildfire, flooding. Extinction rates, already far exceeding the global average for mammals, predicted to escalate across all taxa, ecosystems collapsing. These losses symptomatic shortcomings in resourcing, law, policy, management. Informed examples advances conservation practice from control, Indigenous land management, citizen science, we describe interventions needed enhance future resilience. Many characteristics Australian biodiversity loss globally relevant, recovery requiring society reframe its relationship environment.

Language: Английский

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Indigenous Peoples and local communities report ongoing and widespread climate change impacts on local social-ecological systems

Communications Earth & Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5(1)

Published: Jan. 9, 2024

Abstract The effects of climate change depend on specific local circumstances, posing a challenge for worldwide research to comprehensively encompass the diverse impacts various social-ecological systems. Here we use place-specific but cross-culturally comparable protocol document indicators and as locally experienced analyze their distribution. We collected first-hand data in 48 sites inhabited by Indigenous Peoples communities covering all zones nature-dependent livelihoods. documented 1,661 site-agreed reports corresponding 369 indicators. Reports vary according zone livelihood activity. provide compelling evidence that are ongoing, tangible, widespread, affect multiple elements Beyond potentially informing contextualized adaptation plans, our results show could help identify economic non-economic loss damage related suffered communities.

Language: Английский

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Ethnobiology Phase VI: Decolonizing Institutions, Projects, and Scholarship

Journal of Ethnobiology, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 41(2), P. 170 - 191

Published: July 1, 2021

Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize people and lands around the world extract natural resources. Those legacies practices persist today continue influence institutions ethnobiologists are a part of, how they carry out research, their personal beliefs actions. Various authors have previously outlined five overlapping “phases” of ethnobiology. Here, we argue that ethnobiology should move toward sixth phase in which scholars practitioners must actively challenge colonialism, racism, oppressive structures embedded within institutions, projects, themselves. As an international group from allied identified key topics priorities at three levels: institutional scale, for repatriation/rematriation biocultural heritage, accessibility published work, realignment support community-driven research. At level emphasize need mutual dialogue, reciprocity, community research self-sufficiency, questions sovereignty Indigenous Peoples Local Communities over waters. Finally, individual scholars, self-reflection on language use, co-authorship, implicit bias. We advocate concrete actions each these levels field further social justice, antiracism, decolonization.

Language: Английский

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The right to burn: barriers and opportunities for Indigenous-led fire stewardship in Canada

FACETS, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 7, P. 464 - 481

Published: Jan. 1, 2022

Indigenous fire stewardship enhances ecosystem diversity, assists with the management of complex resources, and reduces wildfire risk by lessening fuel loads. Although Peoples have maintained practices for millennia continue to be keepers knowledge, significant barriers exist re-engaging in cultural burning. communities Canada unique vulnerabilities large high-intensity wildfires as they are predominately located remote, forested regions lack financial support at federal provincial levels mitigate risk. Therefore, it is critical uphold expertise leading effective socially just stewardship. In this perspective, we demonstrate benefits burning identify five key advancing Canada. We also provide calls action assist reducing preconceptions misinformation focus on creating space respect different knowledges experiences. Despite growing concerns over agency-stated intentions establish partners management, power imbalances still exist. The future coexistence needs a shared responsibility led within their territories.

Language: Английский

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Centering Indigenous Voices: The Role of Fire in the Boreal Forest of North America

Current Forestry Reports, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 8(3), P. 257 - 276

Published: July 27, 2022

Indigenous perspectives have often been overlooked in fire management North America. With a focus on the boreal region of America, this paper provides review existing literature documenting voices and historical relationship peoples northern America to landscapes that burn.Early research topic explored how people used forest, with most coming out case studies Alberta. Emerging last two decades has broadened geographic include Alaska, Ontario, Labrador, other regions This broadening shown diversity is reflected relationships burn. Of note an emerging interest knowledge wake settler colonialism.Indigenous forest applied their fulfill numerous objectives for thousands years. More than tool, view as agent, capable movement, destruction creation, acting landscape create order, within living, connected environment. Unfortunately, restrictions application practice initiated during early colonial times remains contemporary challenge well.The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40725-022-00168-9.

Language: Английский

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Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Data: a contribution toward Indigenous Research Sovereignty

Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: May 4, 2023

Indigenous Peoples' right to sovereignty forms the foundation for advocacy and actions toward greater self-determination control across a range of domains that impact communities cultures. Declarations are rising throughout diverse fields, including Network Sovereignty, Food Energy Data Sovereignty. Research Sovereignty draws in discourse these initiatives consider their applications broader research ecosystem. Our exploration or context activities, has been focused on relationship between efforts describe Rights data.

Language: Английский

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Severe decline in large farmland trees in India over the past decade

Nature Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 7(7), P. 860 - 868

Published: May 15, 2024

Abstract Agroforestry practices that include the integration of multifunctional trees within agricultural lands can generate multiple socioecological benefits, in addition to being a natural climate solution due associated carbon sequestration potential. Such agroforestry represent vital part India’s landscapes. However, despite their importance, current lack robust monitoring mechanisms has contributed an insufficient grasp distribution relation management practices, as well vulnerability change and diseases. Here we map 0.6 billion farmland trees, excluding block plantations, India track them over past decade. We show around 11 ± 2% large (about 96 m 2 crown size) mapped 2010/2011 had disappeared by 2018. Moreover, during period 2018–2022, more than 5 million 67 have vanished, partly altered cultivation where fields are perceived detrimental crop yields. These observations particularly unsettling given emphasis on pivotal solution, playing crucial role both adaptation mitigation strategies, important for supporting livelihoods improving biodiversity.

Language: Английский

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Integrating CARE and FAIR Principles in the Digital Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book series, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 197 - 230

Published: Feb. 19, 2025

Preserving and disseminating indigenous knowledge in the digital age presents unique ethical challenges. There is a need to use frameworks such as CARE FAIR principles preservation of Indigenous knowledge. A literature review was conducted unpack how can be integrated into The databases searched were Scopus, Web Science, Google Scholar. findings show that integrating both require community-led governance models, culturally appropriate metadata systems, collaborative partnerships between communities, researchers, technologists. These approaches ensure groups retain authority over sharing while benefiting from advancements. This, emphasising there for paradigm shift respects epistemologies development technology prioritises communities by all stakeholders.

Language: Английский

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