Happy indigenous peoples day

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Mongabay Series: Amazon Agribusiness

Brazil’s Bolsonaro presses anti-indigenous agenda; resistance surges

Lucas Ferraz, Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretary, is confident that final approval of the Mercosur-EU trade deal is imminent. Image courtesy of FGV.

However, despite continuing expressions of concern by some members of the European Parliament, it seems unlikely the EU/Mercosur deal will be halted. Lucas Ferraz, Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretary, told Bloomberg news: “We have never been so close. We’ve advanced more in four months than in 20 years.”

During a recent press conference with his Argentine counterpart in Buenos Aires, Bolsonaro, who is a keen advocate of the agreement, enthused: “We are all going to win with this — Argentina, Brazil and the other countries of this bloc.” Barring eleventh-hour hitches, the finalized deal is expected to be announced during a summit of the G20 group of leading economies in Osaka before the end of June.

On 26 June the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, responded to the concerns of the NGOs and the scientists, saying: “Like you, I am worried about the actions taken by the Brazilian president [in relation to deforestation] and, if possible, I will have a clear discussion with him about it at the G20 meeting.” But she was not prepared to halt the trade talks: “I don’t think the non-conclusion of the agreement with Mercosul will mean that a hectare less forest will be felled in Brazil. On the contrary.”

Brazilian police stand at the ready in late May during one of the biggest indigenous protests ever seen in Brasilla. Image by Karla Mendes / Mongabay.
Growing indigenous outrage
While it seems very unlikely the talks will be stopped, thechorus of protests has underlined international concern over Bolsonaro’s draconian socioenvironmental policies and put increasing pressure for transnational companies to take action. Brazil’s indigenous organizations are speaking out ever more loudly abroad, saying that they have little alternative, as Bolsonaro has closed down all national channels of communication.

 

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not wealth driven
likely plain old life driven


Indigenous Iban community defends rainforests, but awaits lands rights recognition
BY ASEANTY PAHLEVI, RHETT A. BUTLER ON 1 JUL

Indigenous Iban community defends rainforests, but awaits lands rights recognition

 

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if theyre not indigenous who is

In Nigeria, hunters turn into guardians of the rarest gorilla on Earth

In Nigeria, hunters turn into guardians of the rarest gorilla on Earth

 

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CULTURAL INSIGNIFICANCE
- I SAID

TE HOE/TANE
PLACE AN INDIGENOUS IN LIEU/WHLE THE WHITE ANHCOR HAS HER WEEK OFF


AND
THE WHITE nz pm HAS A BREAK IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS,SUPPOSEDLY IGNORING THE IHUMATO INDIGENOUS MAORI/ME NZ,protestas
ie bullshit


WHILE

the indigenous yes true/deputy pm says fuck all
yes true also

WE
HAVE ALL BEEN ABUASED
WHITE COMPENSATION REQUIRED/DUH

IE
STOP STEALING OUR CHILDREN AS WELL
THATS ALWAYS A GOOD ONE/PULLING AT HEART STRINGS
WVEN IF
BORROWED
IE STOLEN

FROM
THE INDIGENOUS aUSTRALUIAN
IE
THE ABORIGINE

SOUND LIKE USA/CANADA

ps
only 3/4s pissed
no response is fine
ie
atypical
ie
show no colors ha

 

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brilliant
ethno botanist
modern day Margaret Mead

must watch video

For decades, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner has roamed Canada’s west coast, recording how First Nations elders dug roots, picked berries, and prepared ancient foods. Photo by UVic Photo Services
In the Land of Lost Gardens
Tireless in her quest, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner works with indigenous elders to preserve plant knowledge dating back to the First People in the New World.


For decades, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner has roamed Canada’s west coast, recording how First Nations elders dug roots, picked berries, and prepared ancient foods. Photo by UVic Photo Services
For decades, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner has roamed Canada’s west coast, recording how First Nations elders dug roots, picked berries, and prepared ancient foods. Photo by UVic Photo Services
In the Land of Lost Gardens

Tireless in her quest, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner works with indigenous elders to preserve plant knowledge dating back to the First People in the New World.
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The neatness, the orderliness, the sheer scientific preciseness of the death lying at our feet is impressive. It is a sunny spring day near the mouth of the Big Qualicum River on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island; Nancy Turner is hard at work. With long, straight, graying hair tucked behind her ears, brow slightly furrowed, the 69-year-old ethnobotanist arranges hundreds of newly cut plants, 20 to a bunch, into two neat green lines along a gravel lane. Turner straightens, satisfied. The greenery arrayed below is death camas. Its teardrop-shaped bulb contains enough poison to kill a child, maybe even a small adult.

For centuries, indigenous people here carefully cultivated meadows like the one where we are standing. Among the grasses, they tended a host of edible plants—from field strawberries and chocolate lilies to one of the staples of Northwest coast life, a starchy root vegetable called common camas. These wild-looking gardens yielded food in abundance, but a century and a half ago, government officials began pressuring the local First Nations to adopt European agriculture. Reluctantly, they complied, grazing cattle and growing hay in their gardens, until weeds invaded the meadows, and knowledge of their valuable plants began fading.

Today, some want to reclaim their traditional foods. A few days ago, elders from Qualicum First Nation asked Turner for advice on restoring one of these lost gardens. She was happy to oblige. This afternoon, she and two old friends, Kwaxsistalla (Clan Chief Adam Dick) and Kim Recalma-Clutesi, have combed the meadow, searching for the remnants of the edible plants that once thrived here and halting the spread of a lethal intruder, death camas. After flowering, death camas looks almost identical to the edible variety; harvesters could easily make a fatal error. The fruiting stalks at our feet contain more than 55,000 death camas seeds—thousands of averted possibilities for further dispersing the toxic plant.

Bunches of newly cut death camas lie on a gravel lane that intersects a once-thriving meadow garden on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The Kwakwaka’wakw people once cultivated and harvested an abundance of food from this meadow, until the Canadian government pressured them to adopt European agriculture. Photo by Heather Pringle

For Turner, it is an afternoon well spent, the kind of afternoon that she has prepared for nearly all her adult life. For more than 40 years now, driven by a kind of steady, unwavering zeal, the ethnobotanist has worked closely with coastal First Nations to preserve their traditional knowledge of native plants. Journeying in small planes and boats, by horseback and in her trusty old Volvo, Turner, a professor emerita at the University of Victoria, has logged hundreds of thousands of kilometers on this quiet quest, sitting down with elders in remote kitchens and recording their ancient learning. She has helped them dig roots, pick berries, prepare ancient foods; laughed with their grandchildren; attended their celebrations; made lifelong friends. Many have come to see her as one of them, even a sister.


In the Land of Lost Gardens | Hakai Magazine

 

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countries politicians can be so nasty to there own people including those of other countries
diabolical

Amazon indigenous groups feel deserted by Brazil’s public health service
by Thais Borges and Sue Branford on 5 August 2019

Disappearing indigenous rural healthcare

• Until recently, hundreds of Cuban doctors staffed many remote indigenous health facilities in the Brazilian Amazon and around the nation, an initiative funded by the More Doctors program set up by President Dilma Rousseff in 2013.
• But far-right President Jair Bolsonaro radically restructured the program, and Cuba — calling Bolsonaro’s demands unreasonable — pulled its doctors out.
• That withdrawal heavily impacted indigenous groups. Of the 372 doctors working within indigenous communities, 301 were Cuban. The Ministry of Health says 354 vacancies have since been filled by Brazilian doctors, but indigenous communities say many new doctors are unwilling to stay long in the remote posts.
• Bolsonaro has hindered rural health care in other ways: 13,000 indigenous health workers have remained unpaid since February or April, depending on the region, after the Brazilian Minister of Health stopped providing resources to the 8 NGOs contracted to provide health services to 34 Special Sanitary Indigenous Districts.

Amazon indigenous groups feel deserted by Brazil’s public health service

 

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thinking of
the silly indigenous canac rsadical female who came over here to NZdetermined to espout

'leave our canadian geese alone you kiwis'


nothing to do with us encouraging there stopover for food
and
our farmers were more than entitled to protect there crops, and eat a few of the pests huh duh


as naughty/unthinking,as our fiery for no reason indigenous Maori radicals of the time

 

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not so happy truth
but
admire immenslyt the BrazilianAmazonian Indigenous


in case
you were not overly concerned or never knew/heard of
ie
not interested

NEW ZEALAND mentioned on its 5pm news

that 530 odd indigenous, took there lives by suicide last year
thats not covering the whites or others
soooo, just as bad in all areas

social problems huh
all in the same boat

a current govt spokesperson immeadiately responded

'how dare you release information without it comming from an official govt source'

i think it was decent he did release it
who knows how it could have been sweetened

dont ever think i am intent on rubbishing the USA/UK ONLY

govts,not citizens

and
klike everything important/of global interestit was not mentioned the next night,onto other events
the unimportance of huh

 

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The Fight for Mauna Kea in Hawaii is Part of the Global Fight for Indigenous People
Native Hawaiians have been fighting against outside influences for sovereignty of their land, preservation of their culture, and respect for their identity since sugar planters and businessmen forced the abdication of Queen Liliuokalani in 1893. In many ways, the continued resistance to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in Hawaii is more than…

 

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Indigenous-managed lands found to harbor more biodiversity than protected areas

Indigenous-managed lands found to harbor more biodiversity than protected areas

 

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Indigenous Leaders Fight To Save America’s Largest National Forest
September 10, 2019
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The Trump administration wants to open millions of acres of Alaskan forest for mining, logging, and development. Osprey Orielle Lake of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network explains how activists are trying to make sure that doesn't happen

Indigenous Leaders Fight To Save America's Largest National Forest

Indigenous Leaders Fight To Save America’s Largest National Forest
The Trump administration wants to open millions of acres of Alaskan forest for mining, logging, and development. Osprey Orielle Lake of Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network explains how activists are trying to make sure that doesn’t happen





Indigenous Leaders Fight To Save America's Largest National Forest

 

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NZ

INDIGENOUS equals COMPENSATION

WW

with many/perhaps

more tomorrow
- i said, today

 

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I couldn’t be more proud. I know the the families of these people as well!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-amazing-race-winners-johnson-mokakis-1.5278898

 

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universal,no doubting

Why Indigenous Hunting Is Essential to Forest Sustainability

no need for plastic wrapping huh


Why Indigenous Hunting Is Essential to Forest Sustainability

 

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Only 8 people in this indigenous tribe still speak their native language. The Amazon fires may wipe it out completely.

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As fires tear through the Amazon, Brazil’s indigenous Manoki worry for their ancestral homeland — and for the survival of their language.


The language, also called Manoki, was already near extinction thanks to missionaries forbidding the Manoki to speak it. Of the 400 remaining Manoki people in Brazil, just eight speak the tribe’s native language, according to member Giovani Tapura.


With fires encroaching on their territories, the fear is indigenous groups will be forced into cities, effectively killing their communities and language. And they say the fires are only compounding problems created by Brazilian leadership.


“There are no government incentives to help revive our language, and the policies for indigenous people the government is suggesting will decimate our culture — the most valuable thing we have,” Tapura told VICE News.


President Jair Bolsonaro has stated that indigenous peoplesshould be assimilated into Brazilian society by opening up their lands to large-scale agriculture and mining. Deforestation also primes the land for the devastating fires seen this summer.


Between January and August of this year, there was an 88% increase in fires from last year on indigenous territories in Brazil. Those fires threaten the existence of the Manoki culture — the type of community that’s critical to preserving the Amazon.


“Indigenous people of Brazil represent the only effective force for conservation active in [the Amazon] at the present time,” said Robert Walker, professor at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida.

 

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proof positive
the indigenous of our world,have a totally different perspective on life, and whats impportant till;, compared to as we all know, a wealth driven existence


With an Indigenous perspective, Anchorage seeks to adapt to climate change even if Alaska doesn’t


Covering Climate Now

September 19, 2019 · 12:00 PM EDT

By Gregory Scruggs

Spectators line 4th Avenue just after the ceremonial starting line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to begin the near 1,000-mile (1,600-km) journey through Alaska’s frigid wilderness in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, March 5, 2016.

Credit:
Nathaniel Wilder/ReutersThree of the last five Iditarod sled dog races have been forced to move or alter their ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage due to lack of snow. This frustrating experience for an Alaskan cultural institution is just one example of the ways in which Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, is already experiencing the effects of climate change.

“We’re dealing with more freeze-thaw events, more rain-on-snow events, a longer fire season,” Mayor Eth

With an Indigenous perspective, Anchorage seeks to adapt to climate change even if Alaska doesn’t

 

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What indigenous leaders from Brazil thought of Jair Bolsonaro’s U.N. address

“Everything he talked about at the U.N. is a reflection of the policies that he's implementing against indigenous people, against our lands, against our rights.”

 

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a happening in NEW ZEALAND
good to see they showed remorse,so fair outcome,unfortunate as it was,human or humans srror

Dairy farm fined $42k for converting indigenous vegetation to pasture
Evan Harding15:49, Oct 14 2019

Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor speaks about the impact of an anti winter grazing campaign.

Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor speaks about the impact of an anti winter grazing campaign.

A large Central Otago dairy farm operation with a track record for community involvement has been fined $42,000 after converting 12.2 hectares of indigenous vegetation into pasture for intensive dairy grazing.

Devon Dairy Farms, which operates a large farm with about 4000 dairy cows at Hawea Flat, was sentenced on Monday after converting the 12.2 hectares of indigenous vegetation, which included short tussock grassland and cushion field plants, into pasture.

Judge Brian Dwyer, in the Environment Court in Invercargill, said in 2015 the 12.2 hectares on the property was identified as a potential "significant natural area" as it contained a number of indigenous plant species.

But between May 2015 and November 2016 the 12.2 hectares was converted by Devon Dairy Farms from the indigenous vegetation into pasture land, he said.


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Just over 12 hectares of indigenous vegetation was converted into pasture for intensive dairy grazing (file photo).
The clearance of the indigenous vegetation was contrary to provisions of the district plan and no resource consent was obtained.


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It was not possible to reinstate the land to its original condition, the judge said.

"This offending involved the clearance of 12.2 hectares which was a habitat for vulnerable indigenous vegetation."

Its protection was a matter of importance and the offending was serious, the judge said.

"The defendant was aware the land contained indigenous vegetation but was determined to use the land as a feed lot for 700 pregnant cows which could not be held elsewhere on the farm."

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
It was not possible to reinstate the land to its original condition, the judge said.
The judge, however, said Devon Dairy Farms was a first-time offender and had a track record of community involvement.

This included providing public access through its property to the Clutha and Hawea rivers; and it had entered into an agreement with the Queenstown Lakes District Council to provide access through its property to new sewage ponds which would save Queenstown Lakes ratepayers about $6 million.

Also of "considerable significance" was that, following the offending, Devon Dairy Farms instructed an ecologist to identify mitigation measures it might undertake.

The ecologist identified another 34 hectares on the farm which was a habitat for a range of indigenous plant species worthy of protection.

A director of Devon Dairy Farms subsequently entered into an agreement with QE11 Trust for the registration of a covenant over the land, achieving its protection in perpetuity, the judge said.

The cost of doing this was about $80,000.

These actions constituted real remorse, the judge said.

Michael Walker, lawyer for Devon Dairy Farms, when outlining the good the company had done in the community, said it had previously been described by a Ministry for Primary Industries investigator as one of the best managed and structured farms he had seen.

"The point i am trying to make is they are genuinely remorseful, they are an extremely positive example of modern day dairy farming and [have] made an enormous commitment to the community."

In sentencing, Judge Dwyer fined Devon Dairy Farms $42,000, ordered the company to pay solicitor costs and to reimburse the Queenstown Lakes District Council more than $23,000 in investigation and related costs.


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he Student Who Saved the Rainforest
The corporate giant Menara Group planned on turning Indonesia’s indigenous Aru Islands into a sugar cane plant. The project would have destroyed rainforests, generated CO2 and disrupted inhabitants’ sources of income. College student Collin Leppuy appealed to a church minister from a nearby coastal city. In a span of eight months, the two spearheaded a grassroots campaign that generated enough local, national and global pressure to halt Menara’s catastrophic plans.

What did Menara do next? It obtained land rights in a nearby province, where its scheme to create one of the country’s largest oil palm plantations seems destined to succeed.


Greasy Palms | OZY


1 year ago you put the thread out there ML
THANKS

THANKS also LF
at least one enjoys
smile

i love this thread, so real,gives a voice for the indigenous

 

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Ditto. I love that we as Indigenous people have a voice here!