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Indigenous Knowledge Key to Climate Change Adaptation
2015-07-10 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Times: Scientists have called for the integration of indigenous knowledge to combat global warming and enhance adaptation to climate change. According to researchers from East Africa, on-farm experiences by smallholder farmers and pastoralists and indigenous knowledge can contribute effectively to coping with climate change. The scientists made this proposal while presenting their findings at the UNESCO scientific conference currently taking place in Paris, France, under the theme, "Our Common Future under...
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Brazil Pursues Illegal Miners on Indigenous Land
2015-05-12 04:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Federal Police officers from the states of Roraima, Rondônia, So Paulo, Amazonas, and Pará were marshaled Thursday to serve 313 warrants against people suspected of clandestine gold and gemstone mining on indigenous lands. The law enforcement operation is chiefly aimed at illegal mining in the Yanomami indigenous reserve in Roraima, reports the state-run Agencia Brasil. About 150 Federal Police are involved in serving the warrants, assisted by officers of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment...
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Dont Leave Indigenous Peoples Behind in SDGs
2015-05-11 19:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: U.N. member states are meeting throughout the year to finalize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will set the global development agenda for the next 15 years. The goals are supposed to be universal and aspire to "leave no one behind." But Indigenous Peoples, who are among the poorest and most marginalised people on earth, are all but invisible in the latest draft of the SDGs. As an indigenous woman and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, I am deeply concerned...
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Fears Grow Indigenous People Path Massive Ethiopian Dam
2015-04-17 02:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: A United Nations mission is due to take place this month to assess the impact of Ethiopia's massive Gilgel Gibe III hydroelectric power project on the Omo River which feeds Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, lying mostly in northwest Kenya with its northern tip extending into Ethiopia. The report of the visit by a delegation from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) from Ethiopia's state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) comes amid warnings...
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Indigenous people from US, Canada, Mexico gathering in South Dakota
2015-03-16 16:09:57| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Native people from around the United States, Canada and northern Mexico plan to gather next weekend in Rapid City for the North American Indigenous Peoples Caucus meeting. Charmaine White Face with the environmental group Defenders of the Black Hills is one of the organizers and says it's one of seven annual regional gatherings held worldwide.
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