Ensia

Opinion: Why traditional knowledge — not external tech — is the key to truly sustainable agriculture

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KQED

Traditional Knowledge Meets Science in Northern California Tribe's Environmental Planning

Here are the morning's top stories for Monday, December 29th, 2025: The Karuk Tribe in Northern California is crafting an ...
Mongabay

Indigenous traditional knowledge revival helps conserve great apes

Deforestation and hunting continue to put Africa’s great apes at risk. National parks and other top down strategies have met with limited success. Many conservationists are trying alternative ...
Jurist

UN intellectual property agency approves first global treaty on intellectual property, genetic resources and traditional knowledge

Member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) approved a groundbreaking new treaty relating to intellectual property, genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge on ...

Naidu calls for a balance between modern science and traditional knowledge

Naidu emphasizes the importance of balancing modern science with traditional knowledge to enrich children's moral values and ...
Grist

For Indigenous communities, protecting traditional knowledge means reimagining how it is preserved

This story is part of Fix’s Mentorship Issue exploring the unique ways climate leaders found their calling, and how new approaches to mentorship are upending old power structures. Check out the full ...
Mongabay

Traditional knowledge guides protection of planetary health in Finland

Undisturbed peatlands act as carbon sinks and support biodiversity. Finland has drained 60% — more than 60,000 km2 (23,000 mi2) — of its peatlands, releasing vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the ...
Science Daily

Traditional medicine: Environment change threatens indigenous know-how

Traditional medicine provides health care for more than half the world's population, but no one has really looked at how the environment affects traditional medicine. Studying 12 ethnic groups from ...
Ensia

Can traditional knowledge keep California from going up in flames?

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Economic and Political Weekly

Protection of Traditional Knowledge

The new National Intellectual Property Rights Policy advocates an aggressive, neo-liberal agenda of commodification of knowledge, and extends this to traditional knowledge as well. However, there is a ...
Managingip.com

Traditional knowledge may receive indefinite protection in the Philippines

The IP Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) has expressed support for a bill that would create a new category of protection for the traditional knowledge of indigenous groups The Traditional Property ...