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Indigenous Peoples’ Perceptions of Their Food System in the Context of Climate Change: A Case Study of Shawi Men in the Peruvian Amazon
(MDPI, 2022)
Biodiversity and ecosystem conservation in the Amazon play a critical role in climate-change mitigation. However, institutional responses have had conflicted and complex relations with Indigenous peoples. There is a growing ...
Mammographic density among indigenous women in forested areas in the state of Amapa, Brazil: a cross-sectional study
(Associacao Paulista Medicina, 2017)
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: There is no register of breast cancer cases among indigenous populations in Brazil. The objective here was to evaluate the association of clinical and demographic characteristics with mammographic ...
Nuya kankantawa (we are feeling healthy): Understandings of health and wellbeing among Shawi of the Peruvian Amazon
(Elsevier, 2021)
Promoting and supporting Indigenous health includes ensuring health services reflect local concepts of health. There is, therefore, a need to better understand context-specific Indigenous understandings of health in order ...
Hunters and hunting across indigenous and colonist communities at the forest-agriculture interface: An ethnozoological study from the Peruvian Amazon
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2018-08)
Background: Wildlife has been traditionally used by forest communities as a source of protein, and the Peruvian Amazon is no exception. The articulation of colonist and indigenous communities to urban centers and markets ...
Wildlife diversity and relative abundance among a variety of adjacent protected areas in the northern Talamanca Mountains of Costa Rica
(MDPI AG, 2020-04-01)
Protected areas are intended to achieve the long-term conservation of nature, but not all such areas are equal in their effectiveness because of their varying regulation of human activities. In Costa Rica, we assessed ...
Indigenous property rights and land use: Evidence from Chile
(2023)
Several governments have implemented policies aimed at securing traditional land access for indigenous communities. While such initiatives are often presented as mutually beneficial for climate policy and indigenous ...
Flying sounds: Mapuche ethno-ornithology from South American temperate forests
(2018)
Ethno-ornithology explores the relationship between birds and people. In Chile, there are few ethno-ornithological works that have explored the etymology of bird names. We conducted an extensive literature review of Mapuche ...