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Sacred Natural Sites

Earlier this month, our friend Ati Viviam Villafaña, an Arhuaca youth environmental activist, gave this talk sharing the cosmovisions of the Arhuaco People of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta,… Read More

31st March 2020. Kampala | London – In the midst of climate emergency and a global coronavirus pandemic caused by ecological destruction, a Ugandan Indigenous community is demonstrating the vital… Read More

After three years of intensive intergenerational dialogues, this November indigenous communities living along the shores of Uganda’s Lake Albert came together to map their future; a future of abundant food,… Read More

  Gaia has written a letter of concern in solidarity with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s campaign to prevent quarrying in their most sacred site, Juristac, meaning Place of the Big… Read More

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

We are pleased to share a new short film, Reconnecting with the Sacred: Community-led revival of Nature and Culture in Bale, Ethiopia, produced by our partner MELCA. The film explores MELCA’s… Read More

New Report, New Consciousness This July, in partnership with Gaia, the National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) released a landmark reportchallenging the Ugandan Government’s plans to allow large-scale oil extraction in… Read More

A New Report Calls for No Go Areas for Mining and Extractive Activities as Threats to Water, Food Sovereignty, and Sacred Natural Sites and Territories Increase Across Africa. A new… Read More

GRABE-Benin and The Gaia Foundation are pleased to share a much awaited English translation of the 2012 Beninese law recognising sacred forests and their custodian communities. This significant precedent for the legal… Read More

A new film released today brings together the voices of eight traditional Sacred Natural Sites Custodians from across Africa. Sacred Voices presents their messages to the world, drawn together through a series… Read More