A billion animals burned to death, Australia’s East Coast on fire, Australia’s PM, Scott Morrison on vacation in Hawaii… Could this have been averted? Victor Steffensen, indigenous Australian and Snowchange regional coordinator for Australia thinks so. Article by Tero Mustonen, ICCA Consortium Council Member and Snowchange representative. Read more ▸
A new collection of interactive case studies from the Yes to Life, No to Mining Network, of which the ICCA Consortium is part, shares the stories of communities resisting mining, restoring damaged ecosystems, and protecting and developing alternatives to extractivism. Read more ▸
This summary of regional reports, written by indigenous researchers and experts, with the guidance of the Indigenous Peoples Major Group Global Coordinating Committee, stresses the importance of securing the collective land rights of indigenous peoples, an imperative to achieving sustainable development for all. Read more ▸
Emma Lee, ICCA Consortium Honorary Member, is the first Indigenous person to win the prestigious Foundation Graduate Award, from the University of Tasmania. She is a key architect, together with other Aboriginal Tasmanian leaders, of a 2016 whole-of-government strategy to improve conditions in the relationships between Indigenous and other Tasmanians. Read more ▸
In this study, spatial distribution models of indigenous agroecosystems in Hawai‘i were developed to identify their potential past distribution, productive and carrying capacities, and future potential under current land-use and mild-to-severe future climate scenarios. The research highlights the food-producing potential of indigenous agriculture even under land-use and climate changes, and the value of their restoration into the future. Read more ▸
Alifereti Tawake |
Council Member with special responsibility for Austronesia (comprising Taiwan, Hawaii, the Pacific islands) |
Mapping Indigenous land management for threatened species conservation: An Australian case-study Anna R. Renwick, Catherine J. Robinson, Stephen T. Garnett, Ian Leiper, Hugh P.… Read more “Mapping Indigenous land management for threatened species conservation: An Australian case-study” ▸
By: Emma Lee and Fiona Hamilton, Board Directors for melythina tiakana warrana Aboriginal Corporation. Our peoples, Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples, have suffered global injustice as… Read more “Tasmania – After a long journey, World Heritage Area delivers Indigenous rights” ▸
In January 2014, the Australian Earth Laws Alliance brought the Great Barrier Reef Case to the International Rights of Nature Tribunal. This interview with… Read more “Gudju Gudju about the Great Barrier Reef” ▸
Paruku Indigenous Protected Area, Australia
Tarevalata ‘Kastom’ Conserved Area, Chivoko, Lauru Island, Solomon Islands
ICCAs issues are being revitalized in the South Pacific in a unique global phenomenon and one of the untapped riches of the Pacific has… Read more “Melanesia and Polynesia” ▸
Uncle Claude Beeron, Girramay elder, Director of Girringun Corporation at the World Parks Congress, November 2014.
His speech during the closure ceremony of the World Park Congress Sydney 2014.
In addition to a pre-Congress gathering in the Blue Mountains (“Communities Conserving Nature and Culture”) and a post-Congress field visit and capacity exchange on… Read more “ICCA-relevant results at the World Parks Congress (WPC), Sydney, Australia, November 2014” ▸
A post-WPC-event: “Assessing, evaluating and planning to enhance the governance of protected area systems and individual sites” field-visit and capacity exchange event on governance… Read more “Assessing, evaluating and planning to enhance the governance of protected area systems and individual sites” ▸
A young Traditional Owner of the Great Barrier Reef (Australia) described his attachment to the largest living being on Earth, which his people is… Read more “Young Traditional Owner of Great Barrier Reef at WPC” ▸
Together with the IUCN, UNDP GEF SGP, GIZ (the German International Development Agency), and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the… Read more “Stream 6: Enhancing Diversity and Quality of Governance (WPC)” ▸
Representatives of indigenous peoples and local communities who have a strong bond with nature and wish to express their willingness to keep it alive… Read more “A Pre-WPC event: Gathering of Communities conserving nature and culture, 7th to the 11th of November 2014, Katoomba, Blue Mountains, Australia” ▸
A small yet strategic group comprising 10 delegates from countries such as Iran, Philippines, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan – Province of China, Zimbabwe and Australia… Read more “ICCA Consortium at World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference Darwin, Australia 26 – 30 May, 2013” ▸
