Learning and leading change in support of Indigenous-led conservation
With unprecedented pressure being placed on the world’s remaining land and water resources, the people protecting the world’s remaining biodiversity need support.
BHP Foundation partners with organizations in Australia, Canada, South America and other countries around the world that are determined to find new ways of conserving and sustainably managing large-scale, globally significant natural environments.
Central to this work is recognition of and action to support Indigenous peoples and local communities who look after and protect more than 80 per cent of the planet’s remaining biodiversity.
Through the Ampliseed network, BHP Foundation partners came together in May to share perspectives, experience and skills from diverse landscapes and contexts.
Ampliseed is learning and leadership network developed by Pollination Foundation and supported by the BHP Foundation since 2019 to connect partner organizations and other environmental resilience experts.
At the latest exchange hosted by Conservation International, experts and practitioners connected in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots – Alto Mayo in the Peruvian Amazon – to learn how the Awajun Indigenous communities are creating a model for enduring conservation.
Participants exchanged experience in how to bridge Western and Indigenous knowledge and governance models to develop a shared vision and create more resilient and sustainable outcomes.
Watch the video to learn more about the exchange with participants from Fundación Tierra Austral, Indigenous Desert Alliance, Conservation International, the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Nature United, the Rainforest Alliance and the Nature Conservancy with Pollination Foundation and the BHP Foundation team.