indigenous science
Native guardians: Canada’s First Nations move to protect their lands
Faced with mounting impacts from warming and a push for resource development, Indigenous communities in northern Canada are setting aside vast areas for protection and partnering with scientists on research that can help conserve their lands and way of life.
Despite misunderstandings, scientists and Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have collaborated on mercury pollution
A new paper cites over 40 joint projects in six nations and concludes that mercury research would be impossible without these working relationships.
In New Zealand, conservation is buoyed by Indigenous knowledge
Blending Māori knowledge into federally-funded crayfish research, supporters say, simply makes for better science.
Biological ‘treasure troves’ need mapping in marine protection plan
A number of sites of exceptional biodiversity — well-known to the region's First Nations but previously undocumented by science — have been identified along B.C.'s central coast and should be protected, a joint study suggests.
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How returning lands to Native tribes is helping protect nature
From California to Maine, land is being given back to Native American tribes who are committing to managing it for conservation. Some tribes are using traditional knowledge, from how to support wildlife to the use of prescribed fires, to protect their ancestral grounds.
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In Alaska, climate research struggles to incorporate Indigenous knowledge
Tribal communities are often the first affected by climate change. But their expertise and lived experiences are underappreciated by standard scientific research.
'Forest gardens’ show how Native land stewardship can outdo nature
Patches of forest cleared and tended by Indigenous communities but lost to time still show more food bounty for humans and animals than surrounding forests.
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