Living with Fire in the Mountains: Quechua Farmers and Adaptive Fire Management in the Peruvian Andes
By Vanessa Luna, Mountain Sentinels Fellow At the 2025 International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) conference in Amherst, I had the opportunity to present a short documentary titled “Farmers and Fire: Local [...]
A Mountain of Change in the Andes
On May 28, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm released a verdict establishing a powerful legal precedent. It opens the door to holding companies that emit greenhouse gasses liable for their contribution to climate change [...]
Andean Keepers of the Indigenous Systems: Celebrating the Ethos of Hatun Tinkuy in Peru
By: Abriti Moktan, Mountain Sentinels Fellow Traducir al español I embarked on a short, power-packed, impromptu trip to Peru to attend the Mountain Sentinels Summit at Huaraz amidst the chaos of finals week in December. [...]
Farmers’ Experiences of Climate Impacts and Adaptation Across African Mountains Subject of Publication and Policy Brief Co-created by Afri-Mont, Mountain Sentinels and MRI.
Planting fruit trees to help diversify livelihoods in Ethopia's Bale Mountains. Photo credit: Rob Marchant In a collaboration extending over five years, the Afri-Mont network, led by Dr. Aida Cuni-Sanchez and colleagues, including [...]
Mountains supporting Mountains: Mutual Aid Resources for Appalachia and Nepal
Climate change is causing catastrophic weather pattern changes to mountain ranges around the world. Recently, both Nepal and the Appalachian Mountains have been victim to exacerbated storms and hurricanes, leading to extraordinary flooding across the [...]
Summiting COP28: Insights from the Mountain Sentinels Delegation
By: Jacob Stewart, Community Director (with contributions from Tual Sawn Khai and Katie Kamelamela) Jacob Stewart, Mountain Sentinels Community Director, and Mountain Sentinels Fellows Tual Sawn Khai and Katie Kamelamela represented Mountain Sentinels at the [...]