![]() ![]() I grew up around the Ngong hills outside Nairobi, surrounded by nature and wildlife on our family farm. How has your heritage and upbringing influenced your work? Losing our habitat has implications for our own language and identity. I realize now that some of this language is being lost. I remember my Masaai grandmother telling me about traditional customs, our landscape, and how our environment shapes us. This concept is something I, and my organization, aim to embody. Ubuntu is a South African word meaning “humanity,” but what it means is: “I am because we are.” This describes something bigger-that everyone, including our landscape, is interconnected. Language needs to be separated from just words. What is the connection between indigenous language and conservation? Moll and his team of changemakers believe that protecting our habitat is vital for our identity and survival. We spoke with Moll about his heritage, and the role of language in environment protection. It is something that needs to be cultivated and passed on from one generation to the next, and most importantly, supported with rights such as the right to speak and transmit relevant knowledge in indigenous languages.” “The survival of traditional knowledge systems cannot and should not be taken for granted. ![]() “The traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities is not just valuable to those who depend on it for their daily lives, but to all of the partners working to address and confront modern environmental challenges, from biodiversity loss to deforestation to climate change. Siham Drissi, an expert in international cooperation at UN Environment, added: Their way of life and right to traditional lands, territories and natural resources too often is violated. But they share common problems related to the protection of their rights. Indigenous communities are powerful environmental stewards. ![]() We need more people like Peter mobilizing the creativity, passion and energy of youth-that is how we will find a sustainable future for both people and nature on our planet.” ![]() “But more needs to be done to ensure that their voices are heard and drive policy and decision-making. Yet every two weeks, an indigenous language disappears.ĭoreen Robinson, wildlife expert at the UN Environment Programme, said: “There is clear evidence that the world’s remaining natural areas have fared better when indigenous and local communities are involved in conservation and protection. Indigenous groups speak an overwhelming majority of the world’s estimated 7,000 languages and represent 5,000 different cultures. While indigenous people make up less than 5 per cent of the world's population, they constitute 15 per cent of the world’s poor. This year, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People focuses on language. Twenty-seven-year-old Peter Moll founded Stand Up Shout Out to act on environmental protection. His work unites politicians and community members, to spearhead environmental protection. He founded Stand Up Shout Out, engaging young people in forums such as the 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in Geneva, Switzerland, which he will attend as a member of the Kenyan delegation. With environmental conservation rooted in his heritage, he felt compelled to act. From the semi-nomadic Maasai indigenous community in Kenya, his upbringing was closely tied to the environment.īut then he learned about deforestation, poaching, resource extraction and pollution. When 27-year-old Peter Moll was young, his grandmother told him tales of the landscape and animals. ![]()
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