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Wisdom from the heart of the world, with Ati Viviam Villafaña
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
Media Release: New film explores cultural and ecological revival in Uganda’s Great Lakes region
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
Uganda: Reweaving the basket of life
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 stands in solidarity with Amah Mutsun’s campaign to protect Place of the Big Head
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
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
New Film: Reconnecting with the Sacred in Bale, Ethiopia
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
NAPE supports community resistance to oil extraction in Uganda as new report’s messages spread
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
New Report – Mining and its Impacts on Water, Food Sovereignty and Sacred Natural Sites in Uganda
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
Benin’s Historic Sacred Forest Law Translated into English
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
New film shares Sacred Voices
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
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