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Indigenous knowledge systems can be useful tools in the G20’s climate change kit

What are Indigenous knowledge systems? Indigenous knowledge systems are sets of knowledge that were developed long ago and passed down through the generations in various ways, including through ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Devdiscourse

Without indigenous inclusion, AI governance faces legitimacy crisis

New research published in AI & Society suggests that current artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks remain heavily skewed toward Western perspectives, raising concerns about exclusion, cultural ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Conservation tech without Indigenous knowledge and local context has limits (commentary)

Technology can be a powerful ally in conservation, but it’s not a silver bullet. Too often, tools like drones, GPS apps or satellite imagery are introduced as standalone solutions, disconnected from ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Indigenous knowledge holders share thousands of observations on the changing Arctic in a new study

For Bobby Schaeffer, observing the weather in Kotzebue is a crucial daily task. In the continuously changing Arctic, the ocean freezes later in recent years, exposing coastal communities to storms.
Mongabay

Indigenous lands, knowledge are essential for saving primates from extinction, says new study

A new study in Science Advances finds that primate species found on Indigenous people’s land face significantly less threats to their overall survival compared to species found on non-Indigenous lands ...