RESILIENCE in a time of UNCERTAINTYIndigenous people and Climate change
26-27 November 2015, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
As the world comes to Paris for COP21, UNESCO and the French National Museum of Natural History are organizing an international conference on indigenous peoples and climate change..

Reinforcing Transmission of Mayangna Knowledge and Language in the BOSAWAS Biosphere Reserve 
Managua, Nicaragua, 24-28 January 2012
The LINKS programme, with support from the Royal Embassy of Norway to Nicaragua, launched the classroom pilot of a set of classroom materials which will incorporate the contents of the UNESCO book, “Mayangna Knowledge of the Interdependence of People and Nature: Fish and Turtles” into the curriculum of Mayangna schools...

Safeguarding the Transmission of Local & Indigenous Knowledge of Nature
Experts meeting on the occasion of the EXPO 2005 Aichi
Aichi Prefectural University, Nagoya, Japan 14-15 April 2005
In an increasingly global world, the homogenisation of social and ecological systems is a growing concern. With 90% of world languages expected to disappear this century and biodiversity loss estimated at 100 times greater than natural rates, urgent measures are required to maintain the world's cultures and environments...