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Dec 2, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Sonam Lama Hyolmo |Latoya Abulu
Nearly 100 Indigenous representatives agreed on a first-ever document to define what a just energy transition is from an Indigenous perspective, with eleven principles to make the transition fair and equitable. Another report highlights approaches for fair co-ownership models and negotiations between Indigenous communities and corporations in instances where communities agree to projects on their lands.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Sonam Lama Hyolmo |Solomon Yimer
In the face of climate change, pastoral and agropastoral communities in eastern Ethiopia remain at the receiving end of worsening droughts and climate shocks that have taken a toll on animal rearing and traditional livelihoods. For generations, pastoralists and agropastoralists across the country have used traditional knowledge and weather forecasting for preparedness and drought conditions.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Sonam Lama Hyolmo
As COP29 runs Nov. 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Indigenous leaders look ahead to show their strong participation, although many leaders are setting their sights on this conference to prepare better for the next COP. With a package of new funds introduced this year, Indigenous leaders whom Mongabay spoke with plan to push negotiations for improved access to direct funds to fight the harsh impacts of climate change.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Latoya Abulu |Aimee Gabay |Sonam Lama Hyolmo
A new commentary piece in Nature argues that the much-cited claim that Indigenous peoples protect 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity is not only baseless, but wrong. Although scientists and Indigenous advocates agree the statistic is under-researched, not all agree with the authors’ conclusions, especially as they did not provide evidence that suggests the statistic is wrong nor provide alternative ways of estimating biodiversity conservation on Indigenous lands.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Sonam Lama Hyolmo
In disaster-prone Vanuatu, Indigenous ni-Vanuatu people traditionally rely on plants and animal species as indicators that predict extreme weather events and help them prepare. But climate change is affecting weather patterns, and species’ behavior may impact the accuracy of this knowledge and predictions, elders say.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
accountabilitycounsel.org | Sonam Lama Hyolmo
By Sonam Lama Hyolmo, MongabayIn 2004, nomadic herders in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert faced a daunting prospect. One of the world’s largest copper-gold mines, Oyu Tolgoi, was settling in, and herder communities were being forced to resettle without consultation. For many of them, everything fell apart that year when they faced the prospect of losing access to water and lush pasturelands.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Sonam Lama Hyolmo
In 2017, nomadic herders in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert secured an agreement obliging one of the world’s largest copper-gold mines, Oyu Tolgoi, to make good on a list of 60 commitments, including compensation and improved access to land and water. Today, compliance researchers and herders say two-thirds of these commitments are complete and or in progress, but complain of slow progress with the remainder, including the all-important issue of access to clean water.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Sonam Lama Hyolmo |Latoya Abulu
The list of alleged crimes and lies is long: accusations of forging local signatures, signing children’s names on contracts, creating false reports, bulldozing through farmlands under the cover of night and trapping sacred animals. While speaking with Mongabay, Karma Bhutia had dozens of legal documents running through his hands, spilling over his desk, enough to fill a book, all pointing to Sangrila Urja Pvt Ltd, a Nepali hydropower company.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
news.mongabay.com | Sonam Lama Hyolmo |Latoya Abulu
Tucked between mountains sacred to Indigenous peoples in eastern Nepal, a conflict is brewing between Sangrila Urja Pvt. Ltd., a hydropower company, and yak herders who say the company violated the law by lying in government reports. The tug-of-war between the hydropower company and the Bhote Singsa communities is taking place in the Lungbasamba landscape, a biocultural heritage home to endangered flora and fauna and that communities have preserved for generations.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
india.mongabay.com | Sonam Lama Hyolmo
A recent study documented the wild edible plant species that four ethnic communities in the Kashmiri Himalayas traditionally depend on for food, medicinal use and to earn a living. While researchers highlight the benefits of this practice for food security, climate resilience and cultural preservation. Activists and researchers stress the importance of foraging and cultivating these plants to counteract the loss of traditional knowledge due to economic development and climate change impacts.
