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 …

Locally based, regionally manifested, and globally relevant: Indigenous and local knowledge, values, and practices for nature

ES Brondízio, Y Aumeeruddy-Thomas… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The knowledge, values, and practices of Indigenous peoples and local communities offer
ways to understand and better address social-environmental problems. The article reviews …

Contributions of human cultures to biodiversity and ecosystem conservation

C Levis, BM Flores, JV Campos-Silva… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem
degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide. Mainstream conservation …

Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically

JS Sze, LR Carrasco, D Childs, DP Edwards - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
Area-based protection is the cornerstone of international conservation policy. The
contribution of Indigenous Lands (ILs)—areas traditionally owned, managed, used or …

Governing for transformative change across the biodiversity–climate–society nexus

U Pascual, PD McElwee, SE Diamond, HT Ngo… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Transformative governance is key to addressing the global environmental crisis. We explore
how transformative governance of complex biodiversity–climate–society interactions can be …

Biocultural vulnerability exposes threats of culturally important species

V Reyes-García, R Cámara-Leret, BS Halpern… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
There are growing calls for conservation frameworks that, rather than breaking the relations
between people and other parts of nature, capture place-based relationships that have …

Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research

B Orlove, P Sherpa, N Dawson, I Adelekan, W Alangui… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely
technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and …

Is it just conservation? A typology of Indigenous peoples' and local communities' roles in conserving biodiversity

NM Dawson, B Coolsaet, A Bhardwaj, F Booker… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
As conservation initiatives expand in response to biodiversity loss, there remains limited
understanding about what forms of governance and roles for different actors produce the …

[HTML][HTML] Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation

D Lenzi, P Balvanera, P Arias-Arévalo, U Eser… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Aiming at just and sustainable futures for biodiversity conservation requires clarity
concerning how justice relates to the diverse values of nature. By drawing upon and …

[HTML][HTML] Indigenous Peoples' lands are threatened by industrial development; conversion risk assessment reveals need to support Indigenous stewardship

CM Kennedy, B Fariss, JR Oakleaf, ST Garnett… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Indigenous Peoples are custodians of many of the world's least-exploited natural areas.
These places of local and global socio-ecological importance face significant threats from …