The first regional assembly of ICCA Consortium Members in East Austronesia and the Pacific Islands helped make significant progress in the movement for the Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ territories of life in the region as the Members built consensus on common strategic direction and plans. The three-day assembly was held via Zoom from May 26 to 28, 2022. Read more ▸
We are pleased to announce a new regional coordination team for East Austronesia and the Pacific Islands, and a new African regional focal point for international policy. Read more ▸
NIPS |
Network for Indigenous Peoples Solomons |
A new article co-authored by Chief Edwin Ogar from Nigeria, and ICCA Consortium’s Honorary Member Gretta Pecl and Council Member Tero Mustonen urge that if we are to preserve global biodiversity and restore habitats, Indigenous knowledge and western science must work in partnership. Read more ▸
Norfolk Island Council of Elders |
Local ICCA |
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 ▸
Regional representative for East Austronesia and the Pacific islands
Treasurer (Executive Committee)
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” ▸
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