This award-winning film portrays Canada’s indigenous Inuit community and its dependence on eider down, in the face of dwindling eider duck populations as a result of man-made development.

The Tundra Book provides a rare and poetic glimpse into a man determined to preserve his people’s ancient culture, beliefs, and traditions.

This film examines the effects of mass monoculture farming and traces Idaho potatoes back to the Peruvian highlands.

This award-winning documentary sheds new and positive insight on the importance of indigenous knowledge for conservation and how indigenous commerce could save the mighty Amazon rainforest.

The aim of this paper is to encourage conservation and prevent further deterioration around the traditional villages of Tlajomulco, Mexico by making more widely known the rich cultural landscape and the know-how of the inhabitants that has contributed to its conservation.

This paper documents features of the traditional systems of shamilat van or forest commons in the Siwalik forests of the Punjab and analyses their contribution to the agro-ecosystems of both local agriculturalists and pastoralists and the reciprocal system of rights, rules, and responsibilities devised by the users to ensure the survival of the forests.

Wild Earth 9, no. 3 celebrates Aldo Leopold’s legacy. Also in this issue are reports on the Loomis Forest Wildlands, the Southern Rockies and the Grand Canyon ecoregion, and indigenous knowledge and conservation policy in Papua New Guinea.