Ama Divers, Where the Sea Whistle Echoes, Japan

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(2009, 12min, UNU)
Ama, the legendary women divers of Japan have been practicing sustainable fishing for hundreds of years, but climate change coupled with overfishing, is bringing them face to face with an uncertain future.

(2009, 8:09min, UNU)
Shepherd Dootkasy and his wife Anarkul share their family’s observations and traditional adaptation to the changing climate in highland pastures of Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan Mountains.

(2009, 5min, UNU)
In low lying Bangladesh, some of the world’s most vulnerable peoples are innovatively adapting to changing climate.

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(2009, 10:07min, UNU)
The glaciers of the Pamir Mountains, which provide over 50% of Central Asian water resources, are rapidly melting at a rate similar to Greenland’s continental glaciers. Three generations of Pamiri women share the impacts of the melt and decreasing water levels

In December 2008, the low-lying Carterets Islands were badly damaged by king tides and violent storm surges. Nicholas Hakata, a local youth leader and community representative, explains that he and his family have been surviving on mainly fish and coconuts, and battling the swamp mosquitoes that have brought malaria.
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Deep in the old growth forests of Borneo, the Setulang Dayak village guards its forest with might. To date, the village's traditional law of Tana Olen (forbidden forest), withstands increasing pressure from encroaching logging industries.… Read more

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“When that whole ocean comes and rises up, where are we going to go?” ponders Inherkowinginambana, a Kunjen elder from Kowanyama, a coastal Aboriginal community in tropical Queensland, Australia. Like other coastal peoples, Australian Aboriginals living traditionally on gulf coastal plains are particularly susceptible to even the most minor changes in sea level and monsoon flooding.

The fire abatement scheme of Western Arnhemland is a carbon offset community programme, gaining a lot of international attention.