Community Mapping Empowers Indigenous Land Protection in Malaysia
Following the successful Community Mapping and Land Use Workshop held from 18th to 20th February 2025 at the PACOS Training Centre, participating communities have now developed their own land use and conservation zone maps. This marks a key milestone in their journey with the Transformative…
Transformative Pathways Marks AIPP’s Largest Biodiversity Day Celebration
In a powerful expression of solidarity and shared purpose, Transformative Pathways partners from Thailand, the Philippines, and Kenya proudly joined regional Pathways partner - the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) in celebration of the 2025 International Day for Biological Diversity, commemorating the adoption of the…
The Ordination of the Forest and Water
When Faith Meets Understanding of Conservation Through the Pgakenyaw Way The ordination of the forest (Buat Paa) and the ordination of the water (Buat Naam) are not merely rituals involving wrapping trees in saffron robes or performing ceremonies with rivers. Instead, they are profound and…
Constructing Autonomy – Stories of Indigenous Governance in Peru
A video about indigenous autonomous governance in Peru, looking in detail at the Wampis and Awajun Autonomous Territorial Governments. Many indigenous peoples in the Americas are implementing their own governance systems. Among them are the Wampis and Awajún, who control and manage large territories in…
Indigenous Voices in the Philippines: Youth Storytelling Through Film
In the heart of the Philippines, indigenous youth are reclaiming their narratives through film. The Indigenous Voices training initiative led by LifeMosaic aims to equip young indigenous leaders with storytelling and filmmaking skills to amplify their communities’ voices and efforts in biodiversity conservation and cultural…
Revitalising Indigenous Food Systems of the Payew people of Besao, Mt. Province
Blog by Florence Daguitan Up to the 1980’s, food production of the Payew people has been sufficient and diverse. They even exported some of their surplus banana and rice. Their food comes mainly from their cultivated farms: the baangan and payew. Baangan are located within…
Tohmle Statement
16.12.24
Tohmle Statement
This statement was developed at the 4th Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples of Asia (IKPA) Conference on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Biodiversity, and Climate Change, held on October 1-4, 2024, in Pokhara, Nepal Asia is a region of high biological and cultural diversity, where Indigenous Peoples, play…
Community-based monitoring of ancestral land and resources in an urban setting
The experience of the Ibaloy community of Muyot, Happy Hallow, Baguio City The community of Muyot in Barangay Happy Hallow, Baguio City, has been home to the indigenous Ibaloys for generations. The original inhabitants and their descendants cared for the land, forests, and pasturelands for…
Sharing knowledge on biodiversity: Meeting of the Yanesha and Shipibo peoples
On 26 November 2024, a meeting on traditional knowledge on biodiversity took place between the Yanesha and Shipibo peoples in the community of Unión de la Selva, territory of the Yanesha people in the region of Pasco, Peru.Unión de la Selva is a community that…