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How Indigenous Practices Can Help Forests Thrive


Forests | Initiatives | WWF - World Wildlife Fund

WWF seeks to close the gap between how much is available for forest conservation and how much is needed. We help create multimillion dollar funds to properly ...

Nine practices from Native American culture that could help the ...

Yet tribal forestry remains severely underfunded and underutilized on public lands. Indigenous Hawaiians are reintroducing ancient food forests ...

How Indigenous burning practices can help curb the biodiversity crisis

Nearly 80 per cent of the research papers we reviewed show a change in species composition as a result of fire stewardship. Land clearing, ...

Communities thriving through development - Earthworm Foundation

With this approach, we support Indigenous peoples and local communities to decide what development looks like in their own communities. By doing so, we aim to ...

Indigenous Burning Practices in Wildfire Management & Native ...

Research into pre-colonial burning practices suggests Native Americans—including the Kalapuya—did burns to improve habitat or collection of ...

Agroforestry: An ancient 'indigenous technology' with wide modern ...

Cordone stated, “Specialists in modern agroforestry can help local communities to ... indigenous peoples' knowledge is not inferior to formal ...

Restored Indigenous Rights Will Lead to Better-Conserved Forests

These Indigenous peoples have traditionally managed almost 4 million hectares of land and still rely heavily on traditional methods for hunting ...

Why We Must Manage Old Growth Forests for the Future

The extensive root systems of older forests help to filter rain, prevent erosion, and reduce the risk of flooding in watersheds across the ...

Forest governance by indigenous and tribal peoples

Supporting their efforts to control, sustainably manage, and benefit from these forests can greatly help to solve the problems of climate change, loss of ...

Indigenous Land Stewardship Keeps Forests Standing

These lands are also estimated to contain 36 percent of the world's remaining intact forests. These facts shouldn't be surprising as Indigenous ...

How Consumers Can Keep Forests Thriving

Deforestation and forest degradation contribute up to 15% of carbon emissions globally, and their climate impacts can be particularly serious in ...

Indigenous-led reforestation reduces future fire-season threats

SRSS is working toward a mixed forest canopy by planting a mixture of coniferous and deciduous tree species in addition to shrubs and other ...

The Story of Our Forests - Forest Center of Northwest Massachusetts

Today, Indigenous Peoples are deprived of access to land, and in turn, restricted from ceremonial and cultural practices due to policies, such as local ...

CULTURAL BURNING HAS LESSONS FOR TODAY'S ... - Medium

Indigenous fire practices offer key insights into how we can address modern challenges such as climate change and forest resilience. Decades of ...

Braiding Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science for Climate ...

However, we can restore practices that contribute to adaptive stewardship and forest resilience. Braiding IK and WS to inform adaptive ...

Can Sustainable Logging Help Save An Indigenous Way Of Life?

When the indigenous people of Bélgica, in the Peruvian Amazon, turned to sustainable logging, they did so to earn income, out of necessity. They ...

Forest Service, Native American Tribes Partner to Promote Forest ...

In December, when the Forest Service announced two major forest plan amendments, it emphasized the crucial role of tribal co-stewardship in managing these lands ...

Innovating tradition to protect ancient forests in Papua New Guinea

... helping bring technological solutions to help these ... indigenous people hold the key to healthy and thriving forest ecosystems.

The Yurok Tribe and USGS Partnership in Culturally Prescribed Fire ...

... practices can be optimized to ... This information helps determine the optimal moisture levels needed for various plant species to thrive.

The Impact of Wildfires on Indigenous Communities

For example, burning off the dead grass after a season can make way for new grass to grow in its place, which will attract animals to the meadow ...