By Riza Annisa Anggraeni Riza Annisa Anggraeni reflects on her experience as a 2024-25 Mountain Sentinels Fellow - especially her time at the International Mountain Conference. Mountain Sentinels 2024-25 Fellow Riza Annisa Anggraeni and Director Julia Klein at IMC I was spellbound by a sight before me that I had never once [...]
2024-50 Mountain Sentinels Fellow Abriti Nidhirma Moktan recently spent four days in Colorado alongside Dominique David-Chavez, Director of the Indigenous Land & Data Stewards Lab. Together, they visited the organization's northern Colorado Indigenous land-based learning site in Livermore along with another Mountain Sentinels associate, Timberley Roane. "Dominique had been inviting me to the land-based [...]
We will continue to update this page with additional resources Dear Mountain Sentinels community, Our hearts are with the people of the Tibet-Nepal border area and downstream who were impacted by the tragic floods that devastated towns on the morning of August 26th. Rising temperatures triggered the collapse of a glacier on Langtang Lirung in [...]
ARP’s Tiffany Pyette provided strong guidance and mentorship to students in Julia Klein’s capstone course this spring, working on projects related to the organization’s mission and ongoing initiatives. By: Linnea Harris During the final week of Colorado State University’s spring semester, students filed into Dr. Julia Klein’s Ecosystem Science and Sustainability 440: Practicing Sustainability [...]
"This stewardship depends on cultural survival, a continuous connection to land and territories, and—in some cases—outside resources and support." "Indigenous and community lands store a third of Earth’s irrecoverable carbon and provide habitat for a majority of its terrestrial mammals. However, few studies have considered the Indigenous or traditional ecological knowledge that sustains these [...]
By Abriti Moktan Originally published by Pennsylvania State University Department of Ecosystem Science and Management "In the sacred landscape—mountain, river, and land—of the eastern Himalayan region, the sacred groves braid the biodiversity and cultural diversity, contributing to the living bridges of the region’s biocultural conservation.." “Jal Jangal Jamin”–translates as water forest land– rhetoric, quipped by [...]
By Tamara Layden “Our stories belong in the community. They do not belong to the university or the government. They are ours–our data–and they belong to the Aboriginal community where the research is being carried out.” Pamela Croft-Warcon (Yuwaalaraay) in Lori Lambert’s book, Research for Indigenous Survival Convergence science research aims to bring together diverse [...]
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 efforts in dealing with wildfires in Peru.” The film is rooted in my doctoral research and tells the story of [...]
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. The summit’s core value revolved around Hatun Tinkuy, meaning “large encounter, getting together for a common interest towards sustainable future [...]
Are you interested in East African mountain ranges? Curious about the intersections of biodiversity, land-use and climate change? Are you invested in the risks and opportunities associated with the anthropogenic impacts affecting the biodiversity and ecosystem services of the mountains? Mountain Sentinel network partners yorK Institute for Tropical Ecosystems (KITE)'s Rob Marchant and AfriMont's Aida [...]