Most Recent Additions
- Australia's Indigenous People have a Solution for the Country's BrushfiresThe fires in Australia have been burning for months, consuming 18 million acres of land but a 50,000- year-old-solution could exist: Aboriginal burning practices.
- Decolonization is Not a MetaphorDecolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools.
- Climate Change Threatens New Guinea's Biocultural HeritageNew Guinea is the most biologically and linguistically diverse tropical island on Earth, yet the potential impacts of climate change on its biocultural heritage remain unknown.
- Indigenous Communities Win Historic Right to Rooibos Tea ProfitsIndustry agrees to pay but contests research that San and Khoi used rooibos before European settlers.
Popular Press
- How conservation groups confront distrust from communities of colorIn order to attract a broader constituency, organizations must first address a history of missteps and exclusion.
- New Research: Savanna Burning for Global Emissions ReductionsJUNE 14, 2018. Biocultural conservation, climate change and how conservationist can learn from and implement traditional knowledge. From the Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science Blog.
- How Indigenous Knowledge Is Transforming the March for ScienceAPRIL 13, 2018. Since last year's March for Science, a corresponding March for Indigenous Science has grown into a burgeoning movement of its own, one aimed at increasing the visibility of indigenous science and traditional ecological knowledge as valid and valuable forms of scientific knowledge.
- Sixth Annual Ponca Corn Planting + NoKXL Crop Art InstallationAPRIL 23, 2019. The Sixth Annual Planting of Sacred Ponca Corn in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline on land deeded back to the Ponca Nation in Nebraska.
- How gardening can improve the mental health of refugeesJUNE 26, 2018. Overview on how gardening can help re-settled/displaced peoples, and may illuminate a role for us in the process. Maybe we need a community garden for refugees here?
- Indigenous-led Permaculture Movement Brings Resilience And Food Sovereignty to Pine Ridge ReservationJULY 2019. Pine Ridge Reservation (home to the Oglala Sioux in South Dakota) community members are channeling their ancestral knowledge of the land to address food sovereignty, housing and poverty on the reservation.
- International Day of the World's Indigenous PeopleAUG. 9, 2019. Statement of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity Dr. Cristina Pasca Palmer, UN Assistant Secretary-General on the occasion of the International Day of the World's Indigenous People
- Ally Bill of ResponsibilitiesBy Dr. Lynn Gehl, Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe
1. Do not act out of guilt, but rather out of a genuine interest in challenging the
larger oppressive power structures;
2. Understand that they are secondary to the Indigenous people that they are
working with and that they seek to serve. They and their needs must take a
back seat. (Follow link for full Bill)
Scholarly Articles
- The genetically engineered American chestnut tree as opportunity for reciprocal restoration in Haudenosaunee communitiesS. Kathleen Barnhill-Dilling, Jason A. Delborne.
Biological Conservation, Volume 232, 2019, Pages 1-7, ISSN 0006-3207, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.01.018. - Biocultural diversity: A novel concept to assess human-nature interrelations, nature conservation and stewardship in citiesB.H.M. Elands, K. Vierikko, E. Andersson, L.K. Fischer, P. Gonçalves, D. Haase, I. Kowarik, A.C. Luz, J. Niemelä, M. Santos-Reis, K.F. Wiersum,
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Volume 40, 2019, Pages 29-34, ISSN 1618-8667,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2018.04.006. - Biodiverse edible schools: Linking healthy food, school gardens and local urban biodiversityLeonie K. Fischer, Daniel Brinkmeyer, Stefanie Josefine Karle, Kathrine Cremer, Eva Huttner, Martin Seebauer, Ulrich Nowikow, Bernd Schütze, Paula Voigt, Simone Völker, Ingo Kowarik,
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening,
Volume 40, 2019, Pages 35-43, ISSN 1618-8667, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2018.02.015. - Biological and cultural diversity in the context of botanic garden conservation strategiesChristopher P. Dunn,
Biological and cultural diversity in the context of botanic garden conservation strategies,
Plant Diversity,
Volume 39, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 396-401, ISSN 2468-2659, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2017.10.003. - Culturally Responsive Institutions for Minority PeopleWritten by Ray Barnhardt of University of Alaska, Fairbanks
- Climate Change and Its Consequences for Cultural and Language EndangermentDunn, Christopher P. “The Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages. Ch. 32: Climate Change
and Its Consequences for Cultural and Language Endangerment” Oxford, Sept. 2018, pp. 720–738., doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190610029.001.0001. - The Traditional Knowledge Associated to Biodiversity in an Age of Climate ChangeLun Yin, Misiani Zachary, Yanyan Zheng. The Traditional Knowledge Associated to Biodiversity in an Age of Climate Change. Earth Sciences.
Vol. 7, No. 5, 2018, pp. 209-215. doi: 10.11648/j.earth.20180705.12 - Indigenous Stewardship Methods and NRCS Conservation PracticesWritten collaboratively by the “NRCS/Native Practices Work Group” July 2010
- Biocultural Diversity Toolkit: An Introduction to Biocultural DiversityLuisa Maffi, Víctor M. Toledo, Eckart Boege, Narciso Barrera-Bassols and Gleb Raygorodetsky
Biocultural Diversity Toolkit, Volume 1: An Introduction to Biocultural Diversity Produced by Terralingua. 2014 - Wallace’s Giant Bee for sale: implications for trade regulation and conservationVereecken, N.J. J Insect Conserv (2018) 22: 807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-018-0108-2
- Nourishing Body and Soul: The Biocultural Diversity of FoodLuisa Maffi and David Harmon. Langscape Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 2, Winter 2018. ISSN 2371-3291
- Biocultural Diversity Conservation: Communities at the Cutting EdgeLuisa Maffi and David Harmon. Langscape Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 1, Summer 2018. ISSN 2371-3291
- Resetting the table for people and plants: Botanic gardens and research organizations collaborate to address food and agricultural plant blindnessKrishnan, S, Moreau, T, Kuehny, J, Novy, A, Greene, SL, Khoury, CK. Plants, People, Planet, 2019; 00: 1– 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.34