Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction

A Estrada, PA Garber, S Gouveia… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Primates, represented by 521 species, are distributed across 91 countries primarily in the
Neotropic, Afrotropic, and Indo-Malayan realms. Primates inhabit a wide range of habitats …

Loss of terrestrial biodiversity in Australia: magnitude, causation, and response

S Legge, L Rumpff, ST Garnett, JCZ Woinarski - Science, 2023 - science.org
Australia's biota is species rich, with high rates of endemism. This natural legacy has rapidly
diminished since European colonization. The impacts of invasive species, habitat loss …

Severe decline in large farmland trees in India over the past decade

M Brandt, D Gominski, F Reiner, A Kariryaa… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Agroforestry practices that include the integration of multifunctional trees within agricultural
lands can generate multiple socioecological benefits, in addition to being a natural climate …

Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples' lifeways, lands, and rights

A Scheidel, Á Fernández-Llamazares, AH Bara… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
To what extent do extractive and industrial development pressures affect Indigenous
Peoples' lifeways, lands, and rights globally? We analyze 3081 environmental conflicts over …

Ethnobiology phase VI: decolonizing institutions, projects, and scholarship

AC McAlvay, CG Armstrong, J Baker… - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Ethnobiology, like many fields, was shaped by early Western imperial efforts to colonize
people and lands around the world and extract natural resources. Those legacies and …

[PDF][PDF] Water Back: A review centering rematriation and Indigenous water research sovereignty

K Leonard, D David-Chavez, D Smiles, L Jennings… - 2023 - water-alternatives.org
The recent Land Back movement has catalysed global solidarity towards addressing the
oppression and dispossession of Indigenous Peoples' Lands and territories. Largely absent …

Blending I ndigenous and western science: Quantifying cultural burning impacts in K aruk A boriginal T erritory

SM Greenler, FK Lake, W Tripp… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The combined effects of Indigenous fire stewardship and lightning ignitions shaped
historical fire regimes, landscape patterns, and available resources in many ecosystems …

Biological invasions on Indigenous peoples' lands

H Seebens, A Niamir, F Essl, ST Garnett… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Biological invasions are a growing challenge in a highly interconnected and globalized
world, leading to the loss of native biodiversity. Indigenous peoples' lands (IPLs) play a vital …

The right to burn: barriers and opportunities for Indigenous-led fire stewardship in Canada

KM Hoffman, AC Christianson, S Dickson-Hoyle… - Facets, 2022 - facetsjournal.com
Indigenous fire stewardship enhances ecosystem diversity, assists with the management of
complex resources, and reduces wildfire risk by lessening fuel loads. Although Indigenous …

Social justice for traditional knowledge holders will help conserve Europe's nature

Z Molnár, Á Fernández-Llamazares, C Schunko… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiversity of European cultural landscapes is threatened by land abandonment and
intensification. While the conservation benefits of traditional management practices have …