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Cut rosewood logs sit in a large pile. These logs, the exact species of which are unknown, are in Madagascar, one of the hot spots of global rosewood trade. Maky via Wikimedia Commons

Wounaan Indigenous people have opposed illegal rosewood logging and centuries of exploitation with wisdom and beauty

Julie (Julia) Velásquez Runk, Wake Forest University; Smithsonian Institution; University of Michigan; Chenier Carpio Opua, Indigenous Knowledge, and Doris Cheucarama Membache, Indigenous Knowledge

We highlight ways to celebrate Wounaan wisdom, joy, beauty and resistance while discussing centuries of taking from Indigenous communities.
Fred Ngusilo, left, a member of the Ogiek community, works with a relative to sift through the ruins of their grandfather’s house in the Mau forest, destroyed by Kenyan police. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

Efforts to combat climate change often exclude Indigenous people – and they may not have any recourse

Buket Altınçelep, UMass Boston

Efforts to protect land and environmental resources, including fighting climate change, often end up displacing people who have lived in those places for generations.
The pied kingfisher helps the Nuer to find parts of the river where there’s an abundance of fish. Henrik Karlsson/Getty Images

Nuer people have a sacred connection to birds – it can guide conservation in Ethiopia and South Sudan

Abebayehu Aticho, Jimma University; Abebe Beyene, Jimma University; Andrew Gosler, University of Oxford; Desalegn Chala, University of Oslo; Nils Christian Stenseth, University of Oslo, and Shimelis Aynalem Zelelew, Bahir Dar University

Birds play a wide range of unique cultural roles for the Nuer people, who have three interchangeable names for them.

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