Challenges
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"Indigenous languages often contain intricate systems of traditional ecological knowledge, encompassing valuable insights and practices related to environmental stewardship, sustainable resource management, and biodiversity conservation. Indigenous communities have developed profound understandings of their ecosystems over centuries, embedded in their languages. The loss of indigenous languages can result in the erosion of traditional ecological knowledge, jeopardising sustainable practices and the protection of fragile ecosystems." Isaac Christopher, L. (2023). A Right to Protect Indigenous Languages: A Threat Against Extinction.
Thus the aim is to create an Enabling environment in which through the use of Indigenous languages, indigenous communities directly contribute to biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and mitigation, ecosystems management, land restoration, improving the marine and coastal environment, reducing natural hazards, preventing pollution, and managing water resources.