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COP15: meet Canada’s lead negotiator on the global stage
As the number of plants and animals declines faster than at any other point in human history, Tara Shannon will head Canada's seat at the COP15 negotiating table.
In New Zealand, conservation is buoyed by Indigenous knowledge
Blending Māori knowledge into federally-funded crayfish research, supporters say, simply makes for better science.
For the Kayapó, a long battle to save their Amazon homeland
For decades, the Kayapó of Brazil have waged a fierce fight to protect their territory from successive waves of loggers, miners, farmers, and land grabbers. Now, with a recently paved highway and a planned railway closing in on their lands, the Kayapó’s struggle is far from over.
Could an Indigenous conservation area in Hudson Bay be key to saving peatlands?
The Mushkegowuk Council has been pushing to protect the area in northern Ontario — a major carbon sink the size of Portugal — for decades.
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Indigenous Colombians mount a spiritual defense of the Amazon
UMIYAC is an alliance comprised of spiritual leaders from five different Amazonian ethnic groups deemed to be in danger of extinction.
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An ancient forest in Alaska loses environmental protections
The Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, sustains Indigenous communities. A rollback of federal protections puts more than half of it at risk.
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