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Seagrass in Tanzania.

To get people thinking about seagrass, Seychelles coins new Creole words

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 Apr 2022

In Guyana, saving an Indigenous language from dying out with its last speakers

Alva Solomon 21 Dec 2021

Extinction of Indigenous languages leads to loss of exclusive knowledge about medicinal plants

Sibélia Zanon 20 Sep 2021

The queen sets the tone: Deciphering the dialects of naked mole-rats

Romi Castagnino 8 Feb 2021
White pelicans, Pelecanus onocrotalus, Danube Delta rewilding area, Romania. Photo by Staffan Widstrand / Rewilding Europe.

With shared knowledge, ‘we could build a new world’: Q&A with Lisbet Rausing

Rhett A. Butler 8 Feb 2021

Land and language: Indigenous cultures key to protecting Amazon biodiversity

Miguel Pinheiro 5 Nov 2020

For Ecuador’s Sápara, saving the forest means saving their language

Sarah Sax 2 Jul 2019

Indigenous groups fight for recognition and illumination in Peru

Patrick Le Flufy 26 Mar 2012

Does language extinction matter?

Mongabay.com 16 Feb 2007

Captive chimpanzees ‘talk’ to humans

Mongabay.com 29 Jan 2007

Indigenous Amazonians Display Core Understanding Of Geometry

Harvard University News 23 Jan 2006

Q&A: What are the most spoken languages on earth?

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2005

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