Custodians of Life- Reviving Culture and Nature in Uganda’s Great Lakes, a new film from The Gaia Foundation, ANARDE, NAPE and AFRICE[1], explores how the Bagungu Indigenous People are reviving their Earth-centred culture and the diversity and health of critical ecosystems. Continue reading
Tag: Gaia Foundation
What is Earth Jurisprudence?
“We are born into and embedded in the ways and cycles of life and their laws.”
Gaia’s Director, Liz Hosken, explains what Earth Jurisprudence is, as part of a week of communications marking the 10th Anniversary of cultural historian and philosopher Thomas Berry, who coined the term.
Global voices in Quito, calling for the Rights of Nature
Within sight of the snow-capped Cotopaxi volcano, in Ecuador’s capital city of Quito, Gaia joined activists, academics, indigenous leaders and students, for an historic International Rights of Nature Symposium, 27th-28th September. We were joined by Method Gundidza, from our South African partner organisation, EarthLore The symposium, hosted by the Global…
African perspectives on Earth Jurisprudence, at the UN General Assembly dialogue on Harmony with Nature
News Flash from the Earth Jurisprudence Network We are delighted to share that news that Method Gundidza, from Zimbabwe, will be speaking at the 8th Interactive Dialogue of the UN General Assembly on Harmony with Nature, this Monday 23rd April. Method joins a group of panelists actively engaged in promoting an Earth-centred and non-anthropocentric…
‘Going back to my Roots’, a personal story by Mashudu Takalani
Mashudu is a young woman of twenty-eight (28) from the Venda culture in Limpopo Province, north eastern South Africa. She works with EarthLore, a Southern African organisation, accompanying communities in their path to revive their indigenous knowledge and practices. Here Mashudu tells the story of her journey so far, revealing…
