2026-09-27 16:37 UTC
#Forests need sustainable management and strengthening Indigenous rights and resources.
“She realized that, you know, the people were also a very important part of the complex forest relationships,” Erica Gies says. “Which is much more of a reciprocity kind of mentality. If you take, you also give back. There is a responsibility to care for the system. Because if you don’t, and if you overexploit it, it would be really easy to starve, right?”
Podcast: https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026/04/reciprocity-not-extraction-centering-an-indigenous-approach-to-forestry/ 🧵
#community #conservation #climate #indigenous
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@maugendre@mas.to 2026-10-10 16:54
'The current fuel load in some Australian forests is not “natural”. It is a product of colonisation, which loaded Australian landscapes with fuel [because] frontier violence and massacres between the 1830s and 1860s removed [people] and disrupted a millennia-long relationship of care.' https://theconversation.com/colonisation-not-climate-change-first-primed-these-forests-to-burn-292997 #community #conservation #climateChange #indigenous #wildfires #Australia #eucalyptus #carbon