Indigenous Peoples and Their Role in Biodiversity Protection

#Biodiversity #TraditionalKnowledge #SocialJustice #ClimateChange #IndigenousPeoples Indigenous Peoples protect 80% of the world’s biodiversity despite occupying only a fraction of the lands. Their traditional knowledge and sustainable practices are essential for conservation. However, they face challenges such as recognition of their rights and external pressures. Supporting these communities is crucial for…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/indigenous-peoples-and-their-role-in-biodiversity-protection/

#TruthBeforeReconcilliation #ColonizersLieAndSteal

#Bill14 & #Bill15 are #undemocratic bills that #BCNDP is shoving through. This #BCgovernment, under greasy #JohnHorgan groomed super sellout, former civil liberties lawyer guy, #DavidEby - is breaking its own law under the Declaration of the Rights of #IndigenousPeoples.

This type of #neoliberalism is right in line with #BillC5 from #GovernmentOfCanada under #MarkCarney federal Liberals(Conservatives, basically). They take actions which are against the publics' interests. They serve corporations over people & environment. They are always greenwashing & whitewashing, while helping with ecocidal corporate plundering & endangering our liveable futures.

These corrupted, corporate lobbyist pandering governments don't really give a damn about #IndigenousCommunities - they still want to exploit lands & steal resources without prior consultation or consent.

‘The Dubai of South America’: how the promise of riches from lithium mining turned to dust in Bolivia https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/03/lithium-mining-bolivia-salt-flats-indigenous-environment-ecosystem #Conservationandindigenouspeople #Globaldevelopment #Indigenouspeoples #Renewableenergy #Accesstowater #Conservation #Greeneconomy #Environment #Employment #Worldnews #Americas #Business #Bolivia #Mining #Mining #Energy

The Conversation: ‘Those paintings belong to us’: how an Indigenous-led project is harnessing technology to protect Kakadu’s rock art. “Kakadu National Park has become one of Australia’s most prized cultural landscapes since it was added to the World Heritage List in 1981. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people travel to the region, usually during the dry season, to witness the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/02/the-conversation-those-paintings-belong-to-us-how-an-indigenous-led-project-is-harnessing-technology-to-protect-kakadus-rock-art/

Are 'ordinary mums and dads' making 'bad apples' ?
Caught up in tight-knit webs of hate

“There was a range of grievances on display about perceived immigration rates on Sunday, but it was clear for many that the return to an imagined white Australia was a central theme...It’s not that white supremacy, which was present clearly yesterday, is something that the neo-Nazis in some evil, secretive fashion introduced into the political mainstream. It is something that has always been present in parts of the mainstream." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/02/how-neo-nazis-used-the-shield-of-ordinary-mums-and-dads-at-australia-anti-immigration-rallies-to-sell-white-supremacy-ntwnfb

"The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it has been enabled by the mainstream." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/01/understanding-anti-immigration-march-protest-australian-mainstream-society-ntwnfb
#HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #mainstream #ImaginedCommunity #decline #ressentiment #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #EnablingSystems #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #RottenAppleTheory

"Indigenous leaders have called for Sunday's attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty to be investigated as a hate crime."

"Counterterrorism police will help investigate the attack, according to the Victorian government. About 40 men dressed in black, some armed with flagpoles and sticks and led by known Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, violently attacked Camp Sovereignty following Sunday's anti-immigration March for Australia rally. "
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-02/iat-camp-sovereignty-follow/105722830
#HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #ressentiment

Exploring the #Aboriginal rock shelters once used by the Gweagal tribe for over 60,000 years. The Gweagal controlled sacred white clay pits in the area that were used for body paint and medicine.

Bat-wielding gangs and a sense of decline

"Camp Sovereignty organisers said four people were injured in the incident, which they said was unprovoked. The Victorian government has condemned an attack on a First Nations protest camp in Melbourne by far-right demonstrators following an anti-immigration rally.They came armed with poles to attack a group of predominantly women at a peace camp,"
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-01/camp-sovereignty-clash-melbourne-rally/105719018

"A group of men, including some members of neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Network, attacked the standing First Nations protest site, Camp Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain on Sunday evening, Four people required medical attention and two were taken to hospital with severe head injuries, one with a deep gash to their head, the camp said...They alleged the men yelled slogans such as “white power” and “white man’s land”, as well as sexist and racist slurs."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/01/neo-nazis-attack-camp-sovereignty-indigenous-site-melbourne-anti-immigration-protest-police-injured-sydney-ntwnfb

"Schlagertruppen" (bat-wielding gangs)
or "fighting troops". Examples include right-wing Freikorps and later, Sturmabteilung (SA), which engaged in political violence and were instrumental in the rise of Nazism.
#HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #Ethnonationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement

Tribes Condemn Trump for Backing Out of Columbia River Deal for Salmon Recovery

https://murica.website/2025/08/tribes-condemn-trump-for-backing-out-of-columbia-river-deal-for-salmon-recovery/

Miccosukee Tribe Won a Battle Against Alligator Alcatraz, But the War Isn’t Over

https://murica.website/2025/08/miccosukee-tribe-won-a-battle-against-alligator-alcatraz-but-the-war-isnt-over/

Bill 97 faces backlash
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #Mohawk #Kahnawake #MCK #IndigenousRights #Quebec #Canada #Bill97 #AFNQL #Politics #Environment #TreatyRights #LandBack #Forests #EnvironmentalJustice #Colonialism #IndigenousSovereignty
https://the-14.com/bill-97-faces-backlash/

UPI: Paraguay’s bilingual archive to safeguard Indigenous language heritage. “Paraguay unveiled one of the region’s most ambitious cultural preservation projects with the launch of Proyecto Guaraní-Revista Ysyry, a digital archive and bilingual anthology that safeguards more than 14,000 poems, songs and writings in Guaraní, Spanish and Jopará.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/27/upi-paraguays-bilingual-archive-to-safeguard-indigenous-language-heritage/

We always knew it would end up this way.

“In the corporate world, the trend is stark. Mentions of “DEI” in S&P 500 corporate filings have dropped 70 per cent since 2022, replaced by softer terms like “belonging” and “inclusive culture.”” #DEI #Corporate #BlackMastodon #Canada #RacializedPeople #IndigenousPeoples #2SLGBTQI+ #Representstion #diversity #equity #includion

https://theconversation.com/rebranding-equity-as-belonging-wont-advance-justice-its-dei-rollback-in-disguise-261730

ABC News (Australia): Calls to protect Indigenous intellectual property from AI ‘cultural theft’. “AI supercomputers can scrape the internet to interpret tens of thousands of years of First Nations cultures in just a few seconds. The ‘paintings’ in this ‘gallery’ were generated by the ABC by entering prompts into ChatGPT and Midjourney. Should that be considered a marvel of the artificial […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/24/abc-news-calls-to-protect-indigenous-intellectual-property-from-ai-cultural-theft/

Thank you family of Little Rock, AR #arkansas #US ! Uhm ... you rock!

#rewatch #palestine #stream #normanfinkelstein

#faith #nativeamericans #indigenouspeoples

Video credit: NewMillenniumChurch Little Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8KXQBsyCDY

In North America, the oldest reliably identified human remains are 13,000 years old. They were found on one of California's Channel Islands. Humans had settlements on the islands that date back thousands of years. After Spanish colonization, many were removed by force and were made to work as virtual slaves in the mission system.
#channelislands
#californiahistory
#indigenouspeoples
#Chumash
https://secretlosangeles.com/channel-islands-california-oldest-human-remains-north-america/

From sanctuary to shipping lane: LNG Canada tankers threaten BC’s whale haven
#IndigenousPeoples #BC #Canada #GitgaatNation #IndigenousStewardship #IndigenousRights #LNGCanada #BCWhales #DouglasChannel #HumpbackWhales #FinWhales #MarineLife #Oil #Gas
https://the-14.com/from-sanctuary-to-shipping-lane-lng-canada-tankers-threaten-bcs-whale-haven/

First Nations call for co-governance in coastal economic development
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #VancouverIsland #BC #Canada #Business #CoGovernance #IndigenousRights #Economy #Environment #SunshineCoast #Reconciliation #SustainableDevelopment
https://the-14.com/first-nations-call-for-co-governance-in-coastal-economic-development/

A history of the Mohawk Skywalkers, indigenous workers who walk the high iron.
“Virtually every skyscraper … has been built by Mohawk and other Iroquois ironworkers, including the new Time Warner building…Rockefeller Center, Empire State building, Chrysler, all these skyscrapers, virtually all the bridges.”
#indigenouspeoples
https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/mohawk-skywalkers-indigenous-us-history?r=uhcp6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email