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Indigenous leaders leave Guatemala prison 15 months after being detained for 2023 protests

Amnesty International on Wednesday reported that Indigenous leaders Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán were released from Guatemalan prison and continue their criminal cases under house arrest, more than 15 months after they were detained over their role in protests that followed the country’s disputed 2023 election period. Pacheco and Chaclán were arrested on April 23, 2025. Both had served as ancestral authorities of the 48 Cantons of Totonicapán, a Maya K’iche’ Indigenous organization that helped lead nationwide demonstrations in October 2023. Protesters opposed efforts by prosecutors to challenge the election results and interfere with the transfer of power to President Bernardo Arévalo. Prosecutors later accused Pacheco and Chaclán of crimes carrying combined sentences of more than 30 years. Amnesty designated them prisoners of conscience in May 2026, saying they had been detained for exercising their rights to peaceful assembly and expression and raising concerns about delays and irregularities in the proceedings. Those rights are protected under Articles 33 and 35 of Guatemala’s Constitution, which cover peaceful assembly and freedom of expression. Guatemala is also bound by the American Convention on Human Rights, where Articles 13 and 15 protect freedom of thought, expression, and peaceful assembly. Additionally, Articles 19 and 21...

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Few hotels, emergency support services for B.C. fire evacuees, says OKIB member | CBC News

Approximately 30 Okanagan Indian Band members and around 200 non-band members have lost their homes to wildfire over August long weekend, according to the band's chief. Evacuees say they faced issues ...

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Roselle: The indigenous crop helping Odisha's tribal communities adapt to climate change

Every year on August 9, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples recognises the knowledge, cultures and traditions that Indigenous communities have preserved for generations. At a time when climate change threatens food systems across the world, many of these traditional practices are gaining renewed relevance. Among them are Indigenous food crops that have quietly sustained communities in some of India’s most fragile landscapes. Odisha, home to 64 tribal communities including 13 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) possesses one of India’s richest traditions of food biodiversity. For centuries, Indigenous communities have cultivated and gathered a remarkable diversity of millets, pulses, tubers, leafy greens, mushrooms, fruits and medicinal plants, adapting their farming practices to forests, hills and rainfed landscapes. These foods represent generations of ecological knowledge, cultural identity and resilience. One such crop is Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa). With its tangy green leaves and bright red fleshy flower cups, Roselle locally known as Bhenda Dal has long been cultivated by tribal communities in Odisha’s Malkangiri district. Though largely absent from mainstream agricultural discussions, the plant continues to nourish households, support livelihoods and withstand increasingly unpredictable weather. Roselle was documented under the Forgotten Foods Programme, implemented by Watershed Support Services and Activities...

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A New Longest-Living Fish? Sturgeon Could Top 400 Years - Far Longer Than Scientists Believed, But Something Indigenous Communities Had Long Understood

“Scientists have long recognized that lake sturgeon are among North America’s longest-lived freshwater fish,” said Scott Colborne, assistant professor in Michigan State University’s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, in a release emailed to IFLScience. “But the new study suggests they may live far longer than previously appreciated. “These fish are a living connection to history.” How do you age a fish? That estimate of 150 years was based off of a 1963 study, but some questioned whether that number was typical for lake sturgeon or instead represented the extreme end of the scale. As such, it was generally assumed most sturgeon never reached that age. The estimate was reached using fin-spine cross-section aging. It involves reading the layers of bone in the leading spine of their pectoral fin. While it’s a direct method, it doesn’t necessarily provide an accurate reading because resorption can lead to missing growth rings in the bone. A new study sought to gain a more dynamic insight by using growth rate increments determined from capture-mark-recapture data. Essentially, catching fish, taking their measurements, and then catching them again. Over and over. Big data, bigger results This data was then fed into a model that could predict growth...

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Delvene Cockatoo-Collins wins National Indigenous Fashion award for textiles harvested on Country

The Quandamooka artist was one of seven commended for garments that serve as living archives of kinship and memory