Indigenous Peoples steward 80% of the earth's biodiversity.
8 things to do on World Environment Day!
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** Today is World Environment Day!
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Since 1974, World Environment Day ([link removed]) has been celebrated annually every 5^th of June and is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of the environment.
It is no coincidence that when the World Wildlife Fund listed the top 200 areas with the highest and most threatened biodiversity, 95% were in Indigenous territories. It is estimated that Indigenous territories contain 80% of the earth’s biodiversity and Indigenous lands also hold unquantified megatons of sequestered carbon as 11% of the planet’s forests are under Indigenous guardianship and stewarded through their ancestral knowledge. “The traditional knowledge about biodiversity protection exists in Native languages. If we lose those Native languages, the knowledge will disappear with them,” says Galina Angarova (Buryat), Cultural Survival Executive Director. These regions are already experiencing climate change and a rapid loss of biodiversity, resulting from the fossil fuel-based industrialized global economy and natural resource extraction.
Indigenous Peoples are calling for a shift in mainstream consciousness. The COVID-19 pandemic has made it clear that we need to focus on collective well being over profit and greed. "The simplification of wealth has led to the belief that money is the only solution, but there are multiple solutions to holding our space on this planet and being in a relationship and in equilibrium with it. [We value] having a multitude of relationships. That's why when we pray, as Indigenous Peoples, we pray for all of our connections and relations in the world. We pray not only with human beings but with the natural world. We do not objectify nature—animals, stones, birds, and rivers are our participants in this life, and they have a direct relationship with us," says Galina Angarova.
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8 Things to do on World Environment Day:
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** 1. Read Reimagining the Post-Pandemic “Normal”: Learning from Indigenous Peoples about Reconciling Culture and Nature ([link removed])
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** 2. Read the CSQ magazine on Protecting Sacred Lands ([link removed])
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Indigenous Peoples use or have management rights to more than a quarter of the Earth’s surface. In this issue of the ([link removed]) CSQ ([link removed]) , we focus on efforts by Indigenous communities to protect Mother Earth’s remaining resources.
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** 3. Support our work. We are just $5,810 away from reaching our goal.
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** 4. Listen to We We Are Not Defending Nature, We Are Nature Defending It! ([link removed])
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Ta’kaiya Blaney (Tla A'min Nation) from Indigenous Climate Action speaks about Indigenous Peoples' relationship to nature and the need for action to mitigate climate change.
** 5. Escucha a Especial sobre el día Mundial del Medio Ambiente. ([link removed])
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Los pueblos Indígenas desde su cosmovisión han cuidado y protegido de ella por generaciones y en este programa le compartimos algunas sugerencias de como involucrarse en el cuidado del medio ambiente.
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** 6. Read Indigenous Organizations in Ecuador Step up in Face of Oil Spills, COVID, and Government Inaction ([link removed])
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Indigenous communities in Ecuador have been faced with a severe environmental disaster while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
** 7. Listen to Many Voices, One Message - Traditional Knowledge Protects Mother Earth! ([link removed])
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Humanity’s impact on the world’s ecosystems and natural resources has brought us to a turning point. If there is no intervention, the planet faces the mass extinction of up to one million plant and animal species due to pollution, habitat loss, and climate change.
** 8. Listen to Shannon Foster on Land Management Practices ([link removed])
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Shannon Foster, a Sydney D'harawal Knowledge Keeper, speaks about how traditional burning practices can help prevent massive destruction.
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