Environmental Defenders Remain Among World’s Most Targeted Activists
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The Extinction of Languages Is an Environmental Issue
This story was originally published by The Revelator. Subscribe to their newsletter. More than 2,000 Indigenous languages are at risk of disappearing this century —…
Sweden’s Mining Industry is Threatening the Indigenous Sami People’s Way of Life
Georgia de Leeuw, Resercher, Lund University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. “There is so…
The Makah Tribe Is Calling Back the Whales
Celebrating the Tribe’s victory in their decades-long struggle to legally resume hunting gray whales. A single road provides access to the town of Neah Bay,…
Costa Rica’s Supreme Court stops hydroelectric project for failing to consult indigenous people
On November 1, 2016, the Constitutional Chamber of Costa Rica’s Supreme Court provided some good news to a Terraba (Teribe) Indigenous territory when it stopped…