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Biocultural rights, the foundation of a responsible human relationship with Nature?

, 2021
The category of biocultural rights is part of a profound and ancient movement towards the indigenization or vernacularization of legal categories, to which other social sciences, particularly anthropology, have greatly contributed. This movement has also been influenced by critiques of law reduced to its economic dimension, leading to a process of ...
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Spiritual ecologies in transition: Bonbibi and the reconfiguration of people–nature relations in the Bangladeshi Sundarbans

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 8, Page 2866-2880, August 2026.
Abstract Local religious traditions serve as informal environmental institutions, characterized by socially embedded norms that guide behaviour without formal enforcement and influence human–environment interactions. This study investigates the role of Bonbibi worship as a system of moral regulation in the Bangladeshi Sundarbans and examines the ...
Mohammad Raqibul Hasan Siddique, Mahmood Hossain   +1 more
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Responsibility Waan (crow): Holding safety, welcome, and representation in spirit

Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 3, August 2026.
Abstract This article reimagines geographical research through an Indigenous, Country‐centred methodology. Drawing on my doctoral research into Indigenous approaches to weed management along River (Shoalhaven River, New South Wales, Australia), I explore how living methodologies, grounded in relational ethics, spiritual responsibility, and more‐than ...
Crystal Arnold
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Revisiting the Definition and Recognition of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities for Biodiversity Conservation

Ecology and Evolution
Globally, there is no single universally agreed‐upon definition of Indigenous Peoples, yet specific criteria are typically used to define whether someone is Indigenous or not, namely self‐identification, historical continuity, linkage to ancestral land ...
Ronju Ahammad, Kamaljit Sangha, Jay Evans, Oscar Metcalfe   +3 more
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Integrating traditional practices, livelihoods, and conservation with Indigenous‐led furbearer camera trapping

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract Contemporary conservation goals have a greater chance of success when practitioners collaborate with Indigenous communities. The importance of such collaborations has spurred calls by Western and Indigenous researchers to engage in equitable coproduction of ecological research that integrates multiple ways of knowing.
Kathleen A. Carroll, Fabian Grey, Nicholas Anderson, Nelson Anderson, Jason T. Fisher   +4 more
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Indigenous traditional knowledge in health and biodiversity stewardship of the Tenetehara Tembé in the Brazilian Amazon

Discover Public Health
Background Indigenous knowledge systems are deeply entangled with territorial stewardship and everyday health practices in the Amazon, yet this evidence is scattered across disciplines and often poorly indexed. Methods We conducted a scoping review.
Juliane Larissa Barbosa Santos, José Augusto Carvalho de Araújo   +1 more
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Plantation-Driven Watershed Degradation and Intergenerational Erosion of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh: A Multi-Ethnic Comparative Study

Journal of Sustainable Environment
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh harbours at least 13 indigenous communities whose livelihoods, cultural identities, and ecological knowledge systems are intimately embedded in a forested hill landscape now undergoing rapid transformation.
Ruth Shraboni Joydhor
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Spatial inference of ancestor locations suggests northern refugia for canopy‐forming kelps in the Pacific Northwest

New Phytologist, Volume 251, Issue 4, Page 2248-2265, August 2026.
Population genetic structure in the Pacific Northwest for (a–c) Nereocystis and (d–f) Macrocystis. Summary Pockets of the formerly glaciated Pacific coastline of North America likely remained ice‐free throughout the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). These areas may have served as refugia for terrestrial species, but less is known about their role in the ...
Jordan B. Bemmels, Kristy J. Kroeker, Stephen R. Palumbi, Rachael A. Bay, Kristen M. Gruenthal, Sandra C. Lindstrom, Matthew M. Osmond, Gregory L. Owens   +7 more
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Criticism of nature conservation and the need for its resignification in the light of biocultural rights

, 2023
El presente artículo de revisión recoge algunas de las principales críticas a la conservación de la naturaleza y contribuye aldebate sobre su resignifi cación a la luz de los derechos bioculturales con el propósito de enriquecer su marco conceptual y operativo expresados en la fi gura de las áreas protegidas.
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Contested Rights of Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples in Conflicts over Biocultural Diversity: The case of Karen communities in Thung Yai, a World Heritage Site in Thailand

Modern Asian Studies, 2015
AbstractThe conceptualization of interrelations between biological and cultural diversity since the 1980s indicates a biocultural turn in discourses and policies regarding nature conservation, sustainable development, and indigenous peoples. These interrelations frequently manifest as conflicts between local communities who derive their livelihoods and
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