The Heritage and Future of Indigenous Rights within Settler-Colonial Commonwealth Nations in the Environmental Emergency

环境紧急情况正在加剧长期存在的全球不平等，对前线土著社区造成不成比例的影响。这是殖民主义造成的生态和社会破坏的延续，留下了种族主义的社会和气候不公正的遗产。环境为文化和遗产提供支持和信息的方式往往被低估。最近承诺使加拿大和新西兰奥蒂亚罗岛的法律与《联合国土著人民权利宣言》(联合国土著人民权利宣言2007)保持一致，这为重新定义和实施土著主导的变革创造了一个独特而有力的机会：确认土著社区保护和维护文化、遗产、治理、领土和当地生态系统的权利。作为一项以行动为基础的研究，森林论坛将解决特定社区面临的复杂挑战，并支持土著社区就不列颠哥伦比亚省加拿大和新西兰奥蒂亚罗亚的生态和文化管理方面的地方优先事项作出决策，以帮助为每个国家的文化遗产和环境管理方面的系统性变化提供信息。

The environmental emergency is exacerbating longstanding global inequalities, disproportionately effecting frontline Indigenous communities. This is a continuation of the ecological and social devastation wrought by colonisation, that left a legacy of racialized social and climate injustice. The way environments sustain and inform cultures and heritage is often undervalued. The recent commitment to align laws in Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP 2007) creates a unique and powerful opportunity to reconceptualise and enact Indigenous-led change: affirming Indigenous communities' rights to protect and maintain culture, heritage, governance, territories, and local ecosystems. As engaged, action-based research, the FLF will tackle complex challenges facing specific communities and support Indigenous community-led decision-making on local priorities around ecological and cultural stewardship in BC Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand to help inform systemic change in cultural heritage and environmental management in each country.