Indigenous communities are one who live with nature and love their peace. They are deeply rooted with knowledge and sustainable practices that could help modern world to level sustainability, tradition, and protection etc. These community are often neglected and they have been sideline from their rights. But they have always been living in the peace of the world and they are regarded as guardians of The Earth. At least a quarter of world's land area is own and management are used by or occupied by these indigenous people.
Indigenous people treat land, river, forest etc as there god and they work and protect them as their own child. They play a crucial role in biodiversity conservation or natural resource management or climate resilience. One such indigenous communities by women in Odisha have created dream abs which documented dwindling resources and advocating for restrogation and highlighting their role in climate action. Indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest mainly the Congo basin and other region are actively resisting deforestation protecting their ancestral lands and promoting sustainable resource management.
Aadi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh have religious belief that restrict the hunting of certain animals and the felling of certain trees and contributing to biodiversity conservation. There are many other tribes in eastern in Western Ghat and other parts of India and in world that focus on whether prediction methods, crop cultivation, organic practices, protecting mountains, managing cultural preservation etc. But there efforts go unnoticed and a not valued and some of the people or officials try to dislocate them and finish there way of living and enjoyment. The UN permanent forum on indigenous issues and expert mechanism on rights of indigenous people are important policy instruments were indigenous people to voice their concern and advocate for policy change within the UN. The UN declaration on the rights of engineers people requires that free, prior and inform consent of indigenous people be obtained in the matter of fundamental importance for their rights and survival and dignity and will be.
In a global perspective 10% Island owned by indigenous people and local communities. Where as land with some degree of government recognition of management rights on 8% of land. And according to you and EP at least a quarter of the world and area that is 25% is owned by them. Where has in India particularly they while beer of estimate of 1.2% of land which is legally owned by indigenous communities where as 8% is managed by indigenous community but not with formal legal ownership. Brazilian government officially recognise 6 new indigenous territories that is a evening to curd Amazon deforestation and empower native Stewardship. Approximately 1.5 million acres land is granted special protection by president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In COP28 [climate change conference] in UAE, in 2023 indigenous leaders demanded that they want the greater participation and they also said, "you can't save the planet without those who have protected it for centuries" to yet indigenous voices are still not represented in global climate negotiation but when we protect be indigenous rights, we also protect nature. Protecting these land is not a work of a trust or a charity but it is a smart climate policy to protect the planet and help the planet in crisis. There wisdom and support can be the matter of change for the planet.
Indigenous people sustain nature because they know we are part of a nature. Their traditional knowledge can help to come back food insecurity or climate change and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss.
Issues of climate change and protecting our Earth's resources should not like just on the shoulders of native people it should rest on all of our shoulders.
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