Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Indigenous peoples around the world are essentially dependent on the environment and natural resources for their everyday survival as a result of their livelihood strategies.In India, various indigenous peoples live close to the vicinity of forests and have managed and conserved the biodiversity of their localities for a long time.In this study, the conservation of biodiversity and natural resource by the indigenous communities through their traditional belief systems, animism, and conservation of sacred groves have been analysed and a way forward has been suggested. ARTICLE IntroductionT he global indigenous population of approximately 300 million people is composed of about 5,000 distinct indigenous cultures and languages worldwide, living in every climate from the Arctic Circle to the tropical rain forests.Despite making up only 4% of the world's population, indigenous peoples account for 95% of its cultural diversity.Nearly every major biome on earth, including the polar regions and deserts, tropical and temperate zones, forests and savannahs, hilly regions, tundras, marshes, and small islands, are home to indigenous people.Indigenous Peoples are present in around 75 of the 184 countries in the globe 1,2 .Indigenous Peoples also called tribal, aboriginal, autochthonous peoples, national minorities, or first peoples; are best defined by using several criteria.The most widely accepted characterizations of indigenous peoples are derived from the International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions 107 and 169 3,4 , and from the United Nations Economic and Social
Source: Science and Culture
Institution: Central University of Odisha
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4386963288