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Sacred Lands and Wilderness

The 22nd of December marks 31 years since the assassination of Chico Mendes, the Amazonian rubber tapper who was killed for his tireless work to defend the rainforest that was his home,… Read More

This photo story explores how indigenous Tharakan People from central Kenya are reviving their Earth-centred customary laws, sacred natural sites, indigenous seeds and the life of their territory in climate-changed… Read More

Originally published by Gaia’s Finnish partners The Snowchange Cooperative, this article announces the launch of a new multimedia exploration of the Tahltan First Nation’s efforts to revive culture and nature… Read More

Originally published by the ICCA Consortium. By Carlotta Byrne, Earth Jurisprudence Programme Coordinator at the Gaia Foundation, Member of ICCA Consortium. From 7-11th September, representatives from seventeen Indigenous wisdom traditions converged in… Read More

A new collection of interactive case studies from the Yes to Life, No to Mining Network shares the stories of communities resisting mining, restoring damaged ecosystems and protecting and developing… Read More

The Flourishing Diversity Series invites you to a unique opportunity to listen, dialogue, and participate with Indigenous leaders from across the world. Wisdom traditions hold many of the answers to… Read More

“A river has a message of its own.” Gaia’s Finnish partners the Snowchange Cooperative have released a new film – Koitajoki. Named after the iconic Finnish-Russian river, the film explores… Read More

Simon Mitambo and his childhood community of Tharaka, Kenya, are working together to revive and enhance their Earth-centred culture and traditions. Theirs is a story of going ‘back to roots’… Read More

In an exciting new precedent, Nature’s fundamental rights to be, to habitat, to evolve and regenerate are now formally recognised in Uganda’s new National Environmental Act (2019)! This huge achievement… Read More

This new article from Eye on the Arctic explores how a Skolt Saami-led project in Arctic Finland, supported by out partners the Snowchange Cooperative, is bringing together science and indigenous… Read More