A young Anishinaabe water protector speaks up for clean water
Inspired by boil-water notices she saw as a child, Autumn Peltier has spent her youth calling on leaders to protect water and guarantee safe drinking water for First Nations.
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Indigenous knowledge
5 stories tagged indigenous knowledge.
Mayan beekeepers take the fight for their honey to Mexico's Supreme Court
Mayan beekeeper Leydy Pech built a coalition that challenged genetically modified soy permits in court, defending native bees, honey livelihoods and Indigenous communities' right to be consulted.
Niger's farmers who let the trees grow back
In southern Niger, farmers began protecting and pruning tree stumps that resprouted in their fields, regreening millions of hectares of farmland at very low cost.
Slowing meltwater to store ice for spring sowing in Ladakh
Retired engineer Chewang Norphel builds low-cost 'artificial glaciers' that freeze winter stream water near Ladakhi villages so it melts in time for spring sowing.
Waorani communities map their forest and win a court case to keep oil out
Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo helped unite communities, map their territory and win a 2019 court ruling that protected about half a million acres of Amazon forest from an oil auction.