News & Press

19th December 2016 News

Gaia features in Langscape magazine – Voices of the Earth

The Earthlings Are Invading! Radical Language and Dialogue at the United Nations by Joseph Lambert, The Gaia Foundation. ‘There is an urgent need for society to replace the current anthropocentric… Read More

5th October 2016 News

Coalition of environmental and human rights organizations calls on the Pope to protect environmental defenders

Gaia joins environmental defenders from around the world to ask the pope to take action. VATICAN, 5 OCTOBER 2016 – Out of concern for the increasing violence against environmental defenders,… Read More

29th September 2016 News

Beyond Anthropocentrism: UN General Assembly acknowledges Earth Jurisprudence

Right now the world’s governments are gathered at the United Nations’ ongoing 71st General Assembly in New York, where the growing, climate-change fueled refugee crisis is top of the agenda…. Read More

14th September 2016 News

WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS APPROVES HISTORIC MEASURE TO PROTECT INDIGENOUS SACRED LANDS

An article by Hannibal Rhoades, originally published in Intercontinental Cry. In a landmark move that adds wind to the sails of indigenous struggles to protect sacred lands everywhere, the International… Read More

14th September 2016 News

Victory! Historic Measure to Protect Indigenous Sacred Natural Sites and Territories passed in Hawaii

We are delighted to share the news that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has passed a landmark resolution (Motion 26) urging governments and businesses to respect… Read More

13th September 2016 News

World Conservation Congress votes to protect indigenous sacred lands

Originally posted in the Ecologist. An article by Hannibal Rhoades for The Gaia Foundation. As the global assault on indigenous lands intensifies, the world’s largest conservation group, the IUCN, has just… Read More

12th September 2016 News

Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth’s wilderness in 25 years – study

Originally posted in the Guardian. Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth’s remaining wilderness in the last 25 years and there may be none left within a century if trends continue,… Read More

8th September 2016 News

Sacred Natural Sites Should Be ‘No Go Zones’ for Developers

Originally published on Ecowatch. A first round of motions was passed Tuesday by the 1,300 government and civil society members of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)… Read More

6th September 2016 News

Gaia at the World Conservation Congress in Hawai’i

Here at the World Conservation Congress in Hawai’i, members of the Gaia Team are working with a twenty-strong delegation of indigenous custodians to protect the world’s oldest protected areas- sacred natural sites. Sacred… Read More

10th August 2016 News

STATEMENT OF INDIGENOUS KAHUʻĀINA GUARDIANS OF SACRED LANDS

Originally posted by Standing on Sacred Ground. Aloha Kākou. Aloha ʻĀina : Love and respect for lands and nature. As indigenous guardians of the sacred lands, oceans, waters and air… Read More

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