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 [...]
"Overall, developing an understanding of the intersections between settler colonialism and conventional conservation generates pathways toward healing Indigenous landscapes and lifeways." Pursuing strategies for support social and ecological resilience and recovery requires cultivating a shared understanding of the full scope of settler colonial legacies, which continue to impede justice efforts in conservation and environmentalism [...]
"Very little attention has been paid to this indigenous ecological, cultural, social, political, and spiritual knowledge systems for solving water issues in the course of climate change, particularly in Kenyan ASALs [arid and semi-arid lands]." Climate change exacerbates three categories of water shocks: too little, too much, and/or too dirty water. The resulting water [...]
"In the remote mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan, women’s disproportionate exposure to climate change impacts, compounded by socio-cultural barriers to empowerment, necessitates an inclusive and gender-sensitive approach to resilience planning." This study focuses on communities in the the Darkut and Sosat valleys in the Ghizer district of Gilgit-Baltistan, and highlights how climate events disproportionately impact the [...]
By Julia A. Klein The entrance to COP30 in Belem, Brazil. Inside COP30: A Mix of Progress and Deep Disappointment At the heart of the Amazon, the world gathered to decide the future of the climate, and fell short. Even in the chaos of 60,000 people and nearly 200 nations, one thing was [...]