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June 21, 2022

Barron's

Crunch Talks Kick Off On Global Pact To Protect Nature

Negotiators from almost 200 countries will begin crunch biodiversity talks in Nairobi during the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2), working towards a much-delayed global pact to protect nature from the damage wrought by human activities.

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June 8, 2022

Idaho Mountain Express

Sun Valley Forum Highlights Indigenous Knowledge, Stewardship

Michael Painter, Nia Tero’s Managing Director of Programs, warns against living in an “alternative reality” and makes a case for supporting Indigenous knowledge in the fight for environmental justice.

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May 28, 2022

South Seattle Emerald

Seedcast: You Don't Leave Anything Behind

"No matter how often you move or shift course, you don’t leave anything behind. Honoring our past and our ancestors is an Indigenous thing to do. Connecting all that past to the future is as well." - Michael Painter, Nia Tero's Managing Director of Programs

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April 28, 2022

South Seattle Emerald

Seedcast: Art, Revolution, and Native Futurity

"I use linocut and mixed-media techniques to develop my own ways of telling stories in the complex layers that they exist in, as well as to demonstrate the ways that we are connected to the Land and to each other...I aim to create pieces that embody Indigenous life, joy, resilience, and relationship to Land." - Eileen Jimenez, Nia Tero Pacific Northwest Art Fellow.

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April 20, 2022

Mongabay

Podcast: Convention on Biological Diversity: progress, hope and hard work ahead

In this episode of the Mongabay Newscast, the conference of the parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity is discussed, and what it will take to create a robust post-2020 global biodiversity framework. Nia Tero Managing Director, Policy, Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, who is also a member of the Indigenous Caucus at the Convention on Biological Diversity, is interviewed.

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April 7, 2022

Thomson Reuters Foundation News

OPINION: Efforts to heal the world need us Indigenous Peoples - now

New IPCC climate report urges Indigenous participation in restoring denuded land, and flags our ability to stop the deforestation fueling climate change and biodiversity loss.

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