Category: Conservation

  • Storylines and Spirit Hotspots

    Families or clans adopt or become responsible for certain areas, plants, animals, objects, scapes, names, stories, events. By Adopting a Hotspot, we are declaring globally that a network of individuals or groups are friends and therefore custodians of certain hotspots. Conservation work is not only for Melanesian individuals and groups in isolation, but it becomes…

  • Indigenous peoples defend Earth’s biodiversity—but they’re in danger

    Comprising less than 5% of the world’s population, indigenous people protect 80% of global biodiversity. Their role is under discussion by world leaders this week. ORIENTE REGION, ECUADOR, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ Pushed forward by a chugging long-tail motor, an old dugout canoe carries us down the languorous Conambo River, a tributary of the Amazon, at the western…