What Does CBD COP17 Mean for the Recognition of Territories of Life?
Outcomes of CBD COP17: The Programme of Work on Protected Areas and Article 8(j) Read more ▸
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Still in the Air: Haze, the red bowl, and a political ecology of remembering
Belonging to the political we does not place us outside it as neutral judges. We inherit its histories, its grievances, and its obligations. Solidarity can be necessary because nobody survives political marginalization alone. But the fact that a call comes from one’s own people does not tell us everything about what answering it would mean. Read more ▸
Holding Difference: Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and the Future of Article 8(j) of the Convention on Biological Diversity
This commentary is organized into two parts. Part I distills five considerations for negotiators developing the modus operandi of the permanent Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) (SB8J) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Part II sets out the institutional history and reasoning from which those considerations follow. Read more ▸
What Travels With a Sequence? Provenance and Governance in the Next Phase of Digital Sequence Information
The digital sequence information (DSI) Multilateral Mechanism allows monetary benefit-sharing without tracing every sequence to every downstream use. But that does not make provenance, knowledge relationships, or Indigenous and community governance irrelevant. The next phase of DSI implementation raises a different question: What should remain connected to biological information as it moves through global data infrastructures? Read more ▸
The Role of Intermediaries in Enabling Direct Funding for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
Reflections From the Practice of Rainforest Foundation US Read more ▸
Sustaining Provider-Country Confidence in the Multilateral Mechanism for Digital Sequence Information on Genetic Resources
Allocation, provenance, and certificate recognition shape provider-country confidence in the digital sequence information (DSI) Multilateral Mechanism Read more ▸
Recognition is Only the Beginning: Indigenous and Traditional Territories After Target 3 of the Global Biodiversity Framework
As countries prepare to translate international biodiversity goals into national policy, the recognition of Indigenous and Traditional Territories must preserve the distinction between territorial governance and conservation classification Read more ▸
Etoubili and boalôo: Community biocultural mapping reveals historical occupation and enables defense of African rainforests
Words from Serge Ekazama Koto, Massaha’s paraecologist and spokesperson. Read more ▸
Bastar’s Indigenous communities under threat
Adivasi communities resisting escalated militarization and mining industries in central India. Read more ▸
Climate and biodiversity: call to action to support frontline Indigenous communities and uphold their rights
We express our collective gratitude and honor for the resilience of Indigenous Peoples everywhere — from those defending their territories under siege to those rebuilding communities in exile. Read more ▸
Orans
Orans are sacred groves—community-conserved woodland areas around temples or shrines dedicated to lokdevta (folk deities), saints, and local heroes in Rajasthan, India. Read more ▸
A message from the President of the ICCA Consortium’s Council
Dear friends, in 2025 and beyond, the ICCA Consortium will continue to overcome challenges to working more closely with our member territories, partners, and allies to deepen our strategic issues mentioned above and our own as a global movement for the defense and promotion of the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Read more ▸
Global Biodiversity Framework Fund: reflections and recommendations for advancing direct and equitable funding for Indigenous and community-led conservation
This article highlights and builds on key points and recommendations shared in a statement by Giovanni B. Reyes during the Ministerial Dialogue and Pledging Session for the GBFF on 28 October 2024 during the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16) in Cali, Colombia). Read more ▸
Global Biodiversity Framework: will the resources ever be mobilized to achieve the 2030 targets?
Resource mobilization has always been the most sensitive and contentious agenda item on which to reach a consensus. Read more ▸
Respect and protect the environmental human rights defenders in Africa
African leaders and conservation organizations must fulfill their responsibility to take a stand and prioritize the protection of environmental human rights defenders, including those from Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Read more ▸
Weaving networks as Indigenous women of the sea: everyday political action and resistance from the territorial level
Indigenous women that live in coastal Chile are coming together to defend the sea, protect biodiversity, and exercise their rights. Read more ▸
The ICCA Consortium and Indigenous Peoples’ territories of life
The Consortium as a collective and its members in their capacities have been among the critical actors in facilitating the changed understanding: support and recognition to the Indigenous Peoples and local communities, their worldviews, bio-cultural governance, and knowledge systems can help us arrive at transformative pathways to address the deepening global ecological and climate crises. Read more ▸
FIDEPE celebrates the first Africa Protected and Conserved Areas Day in Cameroon
In Bafoussam, Cameroon, several activities were organized to celebrate this Day under the theme of “Harmony between man and nature: community conservation, an opportunity for biodiversity”. Read more ▸
Southeast Asia: Challenges and Ways Forward
Documenting ICCAs passes on traditional knowledge and history, and enables the world to see that ICCA custodians have concrete, nature-based solutions to help reach global conservation targets. Read more ▸
Ha’alupan Bai: Locally Managed Marine Areas of the Suluk People
By Neville Yapp with Land Empowerment Animals People, Persatuan Komuniti Kampung Mumiang and Forever Sabah Note: This article is from the recently published report… Read more “Ha’alupan Bai: Locally Managed Marine Areas of the Suluk People” ▸
