For decades, global conservation efforts relied heavily on one dominant philosophy: protect nature by removing people from it. Forests became “preserves,” rivers became “resources,” and entire ...
Whether stewardship rights, such as those granted through land trusts and the like, constitute Land Back is a great question. The question and its framing are instructive of the very issues the ...
The 45th Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources was held at the University of Colorado Boulder Wolf Law Building. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) BOULDER, Colo. (CN) — In 1980, the U.S. Supreme ...
CALOTO, Colombia (AP) — Indigenous Nasa children are gently splashed with water using a leafy branch — a ritual meant to protect them and symbolically “open the path” — before setting off with wooden ...
Rick Williams doesn’t just want your land acknowledgement. You’ve probably heard them at meetings or graduations. The idea is to take a few short minutes to acknowledge the land where you’re sitting ...
For generations, we’ve taken more from the land than we’ve given back. Indigenous-led stewardship offers a path forward.
Indigenous territories are a crucial bulwark against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A new peer-reviewed study shows they also safeguard the health of millions living there. The study, ...
The growing threats posed by climate change and corporate greed have focused attention on Indigenous peoples’ stewardship of their land. Fellows Falls, one of the streams that feed into Onondaga Creek ...
From California to Alabama, people of color are building communal spaces rooted in care and tradition ...
Indigenous people in Brazil have marched in the capital, Brasilia, to protest what they say are violations of their land ...
Thousands of representatives of Indigenous peoples gathered in Brasília on Tuesday to protest threats to their land rights, marching through Three Powers Plaza, home to Brazil's Supreme Court, ...
ANN ARBOR, MI — University of Michigan graduate student Jade Prange said she grew up in the small village of Kingsley in ...