Recognizing Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous peoples proven to sustain biodiversity and address climate change: Now it’s time to recognize and support this leadership People around the world increasingly see the urgent need to tackle the twin emergencies of climate change and biodiversity loss. We can make progress on both these fronts if the world also recognizes the leadership of […]
Indigenous-led conservation. A way forward.
“We have been on our land for over 700 generations and have learned important lessons around sustainability and natural resource management.” Hereditary Heiltsuk Chief Frank Brown, an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University, recently shared with Canada’s National Observer.”Indigenous peoples, counting as only 5% of the world’s population, own or manage up to 25% of […]
Let’s Invest in What’s Working!
We at Nature For Justice aim to be the organization that local communities and partners look to for support as they invest in projects to ensure that social justice prevails through restoring and improving their lands. We also seek to increase the capacities of local, national, and international partnerships on a global scale. One of […]
N4J Interview Series Part 1: Steven Nitah
Steven Nitah is a former of Chief of the Łutsël K’e Dene First Nation and CEO of the Denesoline Corporation before transitioning to the position of the LKDFN Negotiator in the Akaitcho Land Claims Process. Under his watch as Chief the Ni Hatni Dene Guardians program began. As lead negotiator, Nitah and his team successfully […]
