Several ICCA Consortium Members and Honorary members contributed to this engaging side event at the 5th session of the UN Environment Assembly. Read more ▸
This new briefing paper seeks to clarify the intersections among the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and the land and resource rights, collective governance, and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Read more ▸
A new briefing presents what is urgently needed to effectively adopt a human rights-based approach across the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Read more ▸
Parties in the upcoming negotiations must align the goals and targets of the post-2020 framework with the self-determined values, visions, and leadership of the Indigenous Peoples and local communities to ensure a healthy and sustainable planet for all. Read more ▸
Hawaiʻi Governor signs community-driven “Year of the Limu” proclamation, acknowledges critical role of seaweed in Hawaiʻi’s culture and environment. Read more ▸
Indigenous youth digital storytelling project undertaken by members of the Asia Indigenous Youth Platform, with support from UNESCO and Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, culminates in live premiere of five beautiful videos. Read more ▸
An exchange workshop on community conserved areas in China’s Key Ecological Areas and the ICCA China Working Group’s annual meeting was held from 28-29 December 2021 in Chengdu, Sichuan. Read more ▸
The Maasai community of Ngorongoro are living in fear of dispossession from their ancestral lands and territories, loss of livelihood and security of their defenders. A group of human rights defenders, including some ICCA Consortium Members, issued a statement to condemn any possible evictions and other violations of human rights in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Read more ▸
Nagaland Community Conserved Areas Forum’s (NCCAF, ICCA Consortium Member) Nuklu Phom won the prestigious award in 2021. Read more ▸
A decade after its establishment, the Working Group has made major strides in advocating for Indigenous conservation in one of the most culturally and biologically diverse countries in the world. Read more ▸
The State of Rajasthan continues to apply its failed tiger conservation model in Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary, to the detriment of Indigenous and pastoralist communities. Read more ▸
Dario spent nearly three decades supporting the Indigenous Batak in the Philippines’ island of Palawan. Read more ▸
A new report supported by the ICCA Consortium explores common governance of natural resources and the meaning of community in the Portuguese context. Read more ▸
The professional fisherman and President of Snowchange (ICCA Consortium Member) received the 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize for bringing together Indigenous and local wisdom and knowledge with western science to address global climate issues. Read more ▸
In northeast Gabon, the Kota community of Massaha has sustained their customary lands and sacred forest for generations. They are now seeking formal government recognition and protection against the imminent threat of logging. Read more ▸
The community has been protecting and nurturing their sacred forest for generations but it is now at risk of destruction, despite the Gabonese government’s commitment to the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People. The ICCA Consortium stands in solidarity with the community of Massaha as they call on their government to halt the logging and legally recognize it under existing legislation. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium Members and Honorary members from Indigenous nations, grassroots organizations and activist-researcher backgrounds have a strong presence during an interdisciplinary global conference. Read more ▸
ICCA Consortium exchange held in conjunction with the 2021 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples shines a spotlight on experiences and perspectives from Turtle Island/North America, the Arctic, and East and Southeast Asia. Read more ▸
As part of the African Earth Jurisprudence Collective’s ‘Decolonising stories’ animation series, Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner Dennis Tabaro describes how the Indigenous Bagungu People in Buliisa, Uganda, are restoring their sacred natural sites, respect for elders and clan governance systems in the shadow of oil extraction. Read more ▸
Solidarity Statement on International Human Rights Defenders Day and International Human Rights Day 2021. Read more ▸
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