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🌳 FSC-IF | Global & Indigenous-led 🌎 ✊🌿 Supporting Indigenous self-development and self-governance everywhere. 🍃 Part of the @FSC_IC family 🌲

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🌿 Are we moving fast enough to care for forests and land? Join #SystemsChangeLab on Oct 27 with FSC-IF's Minnie Degawan and global experts to discuss progress and action on climate and biodiversity. 🔗 Register: hub.wri.org/events/2026/10/s…
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🌳 Healthy forests thrive with Indigenous leadership! Join FSC-IF at #COP17 on 23 October to explore how Indigenous knowledge, women and youth leadership, and forest stewardship contribute to biodiversity. 🌿 Be part of the dialogue! cbd.int/side-events/7067
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🌿 Women are shaping biodiversity's future! Join FSC-IF & FSC at #COP17Armenia to hear from women leading change through ancestral knowledge, forest stewardship & community-led initiatives. 💚 Amplifying women's voices and leadership! #BiodiversityAction
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At the Africa Regional Forum in Cameroon, Bibata Barry (AFPAT) and Samante Anne (MPIDO) called for accessible forest certification, continuous dialogue, and collective Indigenous representation in decisions about forests and communities. 🌳 #IndigenousWomen #VoicesOfTheLand
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Indigenous women, youth, and representatives gathered with partners in Douala, Cameroon, to share knowledge and strengthen participation in forest governance and FSC certification.🌲 With @RepaleacC45581 we amplify Indigenous voices for the future of forests!🌿 #VoicesOfTheLand
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Indigenous Peoples are the original stewards of our planet — caring for rivers, oceans, and forests with ancestral wisdom. On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, let’s uplift Indigenous rights and leadership for a thriving, biodiverse future. 🌎💚
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FSC Indigenous Foundation retweeted
UN Biodiversity
@UNBiodiversityOct 7
Indigenous peoples and local communities hold knowledge, innovations and practices relevant for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. At #COP17Armenia, Parties will consider matters related to Article 8(j) and implementation of the #KMGBF. 🔗cbd.int/conferences/2026
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Reposting the work of our Indigenous sisters on biodiversity conservation 🌺☘️🌱🌳
Indigenous Women's Biodiversity Network@IwbnglobalOct 7
Indigenous women are powerful guardians of biodiversity. Upholding their rights, knowledge and leadership strengthens communities, protects nature and builds a sustainable future for all. #IndigenousWomen #Biodiversity #IndigenousKnowledge #NatureConservation
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Indigenous women are powerful guardians of biodiversity. Upholding their rights, knowledge and leadership strengthens communities, protects nature and builds a sustainable future for all. #IndigenousWomen #Biodiversity #IndigenousKnowledge #NatureConservation
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Latest News: The COP26 Forest Tenure Pledge exceeded its original $1.7B commitment, reaching $2.35B between 2021–2025. But numbers tell only part of the story. What matters is real change on the ground. 🔗 tenurepledge.org/ftfg-annual…
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“Thriving forests mean healthy communities.” 🌿 At #ClimateWeekNYC, Minnie Degawan called for carbon markets that recognize Indigenous Peoples’ rights, knowledge & stewardship at an event co-organized by @ConservationOrg FSC & UNDP. #CarbonMarkets
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“Forests are more than carbon sinks. Carbon is, in fact, a co-benefit.” For Indigenous Peoples, forests are home, culture, knowledge, and life, not simply carbon. Minnie Degawan shared this perspective at an EDF & Emergent session during #ClimateWeekNYC.
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From recognition to action 🌍 At #UNCCDCOP17, Aehshatou Manu and Kalea Aquino reflected on the strength of Indigenous Peoples coming together and the work still needed to turn participation into real influence. Read their reflections: fscindigenousfoundation.org/…
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“At its core, FPIC is about relationship building and not so much about legalities.” Minnie Degawan shared this message during the FSC Certification Bodies Meeting, highlighting the importance of putting FPIC into practice. #FPIC #IndigenousRights
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A new Mongabay article highlights the work of our Emberá-Wounaan brothers and sisters in Darién and the incredible biodiversity within their territories. 🌿 “It’s our forest, and we already know it.” — Samuel Cheucarama, Puerto Lara Read more: news.mongabay.com/2026/09/in…

In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

When Elsa Quiroz saw the spotted body of a jaguar appear on her son’s computer screen, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I’d only seen them in books,” she said. In late 2025, a camera captured the...

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FSC Indigenous Foundation retweeted
UN Biodiversity
@UNBiodiversitySep 6
The #KunmingDialogue opens on Monday in Kunming, China: three days of informal multistakeholder consultations related to the Global Review of the #KMGBF, which will take place at #COP17Armenia: cbd.int/conferences/kunming-… #BiodiversityAction #ForNature
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✊🏽 “The people, united!” Indigenous Peoples are making their voices heard at #UNCCDCOP17. A collective call for Indigenous Peoples to be recognized as rights holders and to have a meaningful place in decisions affecting their lands and forests they have stewarded for generations.
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At our COP17 side event, Indigenous leaders & allies came to discuss shared priorities: 🌳 Preventing land degradation, advancing Indigenous rights and knowledge, and strengthening cooperation. 🔗bit.ly/3SJ2irE #IndigenousPeoples #Forests
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On the first day of #COP17, Pastoralists, Indigenous Peoples & groups worldwide marched to deliver the Ulaanbaatar Declaration to the COP17 Presidency. 🌿 “Pastoralists are custodians of nature, biodiversity & ecosystems.” 📖 Read & share the Declaration: bit.ly/4hK5u0x
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At #UNCCDCOP17 @NiaTero will launch a policy report on the Synergies of the 3 Rio Conventions. Read the report by scanning the QR code. 👇
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