This conversation helps us to identify current and emerging opportunities for indigenous peoples and local communities to contribute to climate change mitigation, including opportunities for application of traditional knowledge and practices.
This conversation helps us to identify current and emerging opportunities for indigenous peoples and local communities to contribute to climate change mitigation, including opportunities for application of traditional knowledge and practices.
Panelists:
Linda Seekoei (South Africa): Linda Seekoei is a vibrant outspoken indigenous woman on a mission. She is on a mission to promote and restore the Khoisan heritage, history and language. She does this through her movement called "Khoi Kulture" on various social media platforms. Through these platforms she shares her poetry, vlogs and posts all inspired by the Khoisan people and their culture. Activism, modelling, singing and writing are among her passions and she uses these talents to further the "Khoi Kulture" movement. Having said that, she is a lover of art and occasionally she is the art itself.
Heizal Patricia Nagginda (Uganda): Heizal Patricia Nagginda is a lawyer, climate educator and environmentalist from Uganda. She is the founder of Climate Operation, a youth led organisation whose mission is to make climate education more relatable, less scientific and fun for young people.Heizal is passionate about creating more inclusive and collaborative spaces where young people regardless of their position in the climate space can have free discussions and collaborate together on relevant climate innovations for their future.
Aghmad Gamieldien (South African): Aghmad Gamieldien is the Founder and Director of Mzanzi Organics and a Miyawaki Forest Maker with SUGi. He is passionate about establishing urban forests using indigenous trees and shrubs. He mimics Afromontane forests found on the Table Mountain range in the form of pockets forests in and around Cape Town. Mzanzi Organics is a social enterprise focusing on small scale pocket farming in and around Cape Town. Aghmad has led the establishment of the Khoi First Nations Forest at the Oude Molen Eco-Village. Khoi First Nations Forest is a collaboration with the Goringhaikona Khoi tribe. This forest is a local landmark, and serves the broader community by educating visitors on indigenous tree species, biodiversity, and the benefits of rewilding urban spaces in South Africa.
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