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Citizen Science Delivers Big Wins for Biodiversity with More on the Horizon

01/09/2025 Authors Prof. Austin Mast, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, amast@fsu.edu, Board Member of the Citizen Science Global Partnership Charles Darwin (1809–1882) corresponded with over 2,000 individuals in service to his groundbreaking work. Today, we continue to combine information-sharing networks with scientific methodologies in revolutionary ways, now at lightning speeds. Our networks might involve [...] Read More

Citizen Science Has Changed the World, A Personal Blog by Martin Brocklehurst

21/08/2025 Author Martin Brocklehurst, Chair of the Citizen Science Global Partnership and Project Partner, the EU Citizen Science Horizon Research Project AURORA – Tackling Climate Change. People from outside institutional research groups, including Indigenous Peoples, have always had a part to play in scientific research. What is different today is that we have the technical ability [...] Read More

Implementing Target 15 of the KM-GBF: Challenges and Opportunities for Indigenous Rights, Biodiversity, and the Energy Transition

17/10/2024 Authors Bryan Bixcul (Maya Tz'utujil), SIRGE Coalition Benjamin Hitchcock Auciello, Earthworks In late 2022, many Indigenous leaders were in Montreal, Canada, to witness the adoption of what is arguably one of the most consequential international environmental agreements since the Paris agreement. On December 19, 2022, the presidency of the 15th Conference of the Parties to [...] Read More

Just Transition: exploring the intersection of mining, water, biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples

17/10/2024 Authors Galina Angarova,  SIRGE Coalition Yblin Roman Escobar, SIRGE Coalition Noreen Quadir, SIRGE Coalition In many Indigenous worldviews, the world is perceived as an interconnected web of life, where the strength of the whole is contingent upon the well-being of its parts, and the health of one part depends on the health of another. This [...] Read More

Undermining Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: The Ongoing Struggle for Recognition in UN Environmental Agreements

15/07/2024 From left: Bryan Bixcul - Cultural Survival/SIRGE Coalition; Jan Morrill - Earthworks/SIRGE Coalition; Prem Singh Tharu - Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP); Edson Krenak - Cultural Survival/SIRGE Coalition and Yblin Román Escobar - SIRGE Coalition Authors & affiliation Bryan Bixcul - Cultural Survival/SIRGE Coalition Jan Morrill - Earthworks/SIRGE Coalition Prem Singh Tharu - Asia Indigenous [...] Read More