“Today, August 9th, honors the International Day of the World’s
Indigenous Peoples. We celebrate this day to raise awareness of the needs of
Indigenous peoples worldwide, in recognition of the first meeting of the UN
Working Group on Indigenous Populations that was held in Geneva 37 years ago,
in 1982.
We are living in a time of climate crisis. As a groundbreaking
report by the UN recently noted, “the health of ecosystems on which humans
and all other species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever.”
Much of the answer to solving this climate crisis lies in the
wisdom and knowledge of Indigenous peoples who have long fought at the
front lines of environmental threats. Indigenous communities able to draw on
traditional wisdom to find solutions that have the potential to help restore
our planet. Unfortunately, due to their dependence upon the earth, they are
also among the first to face the direct consequences of
climate change.”
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