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Bioneers Newsletter 11.6.25 — A River, a Whale, and a Revolution in Justice

Indigenous Nations are reshaping laws to honor nature as kin — from the Klamath to the Pacific.

Indigeneity
Shifting the Tides of Justice: Advancing the Rights of Fish and Aquatic Mammals
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A transformative movement is emerging at the intersection of Tribal Sovereignty and the Rights of Nature, as Indigenous Nations lead efforts to recognize the inherent rights of fish, aquatic mammals, and the ecosystems they inhabit. This panel explores how Tribal Nations are adopting Rights of Nature policies in a centuries-long effort to protect marine life…

Food and Farming
Cheese Trekking: How Microbes, Landscapes, Livestock, and Human Cultures Shape Terroir

Trevor Warmedahl, traveled around the world apprenticing with traditional, pastoral cheese makers. His discovery of terroir–a flavor that expresses the landscape, the animals and the process–came as an almost spiritual revelation while working in the Alta Langhe hills in Italy where they make a regional cheese called Tuma.

Food and Farming
A Global Journey to Learn From Traditional Cheese Makers

Trevor Warmedahl’s global quest to learn from cultures with diverse traditions of natural cheesemaking opened his senses to the concept of deep terroir–how people’s foodways, animal husbandry, and local ecology are distilled into cheeses whose flavors are so utterly distinctive that they could only be made in that specific place.

Eco-Nomics
Threads of Resistance: The Women Reviving Peru’s Native Colored Cotton

In northern Peru, a group of women defied poverty, bureaucracy, and monoculture to bring their ancestors’ vibrant native cotton back to life.

Indigeneity
Book Giveaway: The Water Remembers by Amy Bowers Cordalis

Enter below by December 7, 2025, at midnight PT for a chance to win a copy of this phenomenal book! For the Yurok people of Northern California, the Klamath River is life. It carries salmon, culture, law, and story. It is kin. In her newly released memoir, The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to…

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Food and Farming
Where Have All the Farmworkers Gone?

Farmworkers are essential workers who can be ripped away from their families with no notice in ICE deportation raids. The fear of being deported is resulting in serious farm losses because people are too frightened to come to work and earn the wages they desperately need.

Ecological Medicine
Inside the Wild Pharmacy: How Chimpanzees Use Medicinal Plants and Why It Matters for Us

When researcher Elodie Freymann set out to study how chimpanzees use the forest as a medicine cabinet, she uncovered surprising connections between animal and human health — and why protecting these shared resources is critical for our future.

Eco-Nomics
AI and the Ecocidal Hubris of Silicon Valley: A 4-Part Series

This four-part series pulls back the curtain on AI’s hidden costs—exposing how Silicon Valley’s unchecked ambitions threaten democracy, the environment, and our collective future.

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