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Biocultural Diversity

Championing the diversity of nature, cultures, and languages around the world

Biocultural diversity is the diversity of life in all its forms: diversity in nature, cultures, and languages. It’s the expression of the bountiful potential of life on earth — a global web of interdependence between people and the natural world. At Terralingua, we’ve spent nearly 3 decades researching and championing this vital link. Discover insights, stories, and resources that illuminate and celebrate the diversity that sustains us all.

PHOTO CREDITS: What is BCD © Cristina Panicali | Stories About BCD © Sindha Joghee | BCD Toolkit © Shalini Ingle | About Us © Nigel Crawhall | Support Our Work © Brendo Boyose | Publications & Media © William Thomas

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Dive into a collection of stories that celebrate the bounty of diversity in nature and culture. Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices and viewpoints. Stunning pictures, videos, and art. Discover our flagship publication — thought-provoking, inspiring, and always ad-free.

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When you buy Langscape Magazine, you accomplish two valuable things. You are supporting a unique platform for courageous and diverse storytelling by Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors from all over the world. And you’re regaling yourself with a gem: a beautifully designed, full-color, ad-free magazine filled with biocultural stories — a whole 160 pages of it!

Latest Langscape Stories

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What We Need Is Buen Vivir

For farmers in Costa Rica, quality of life, well-being, and…
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Life in Territories

Tea and coffee plantations in southern India encroach on Indigenous…
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Whispers of the Forest

An ancient healing practice persists and thrives in the forests…
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Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle

Explore inspiring, first-person stories by Indigenous youth worldwide. Our Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle (IYSC) provides a global platform for Indigenous youths to share their unique perspectives about connecting with their ancestral languages, cultures, and lands.

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The Latest from Terralingua and Beyond

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clay sculpture, by Natasha Smoke Santiago

International Mother Earth Day: Biocultural Diversity Contains the Seeds of Climate Change Resilience

Indigenous and other place-based communities are finding in their own biocultural heritage the resilience to counter climate change. This micaceous clay sculpture, by Natasha Smoke Santiago (Akwesasne Mohawk), holds heirloom corn. At a Great Lakes intertribal…
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Participatory Video: Indigenous Communities Are Using a Modern Tool to Revitalize Ancestral Ways

Participatory video helps restore Indigenous communities’ links to — and pride in — their ancestral languages, traditions, and knowledge. Tingatinga and Magella (left to…
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streets of Napoli, Italy

The Napoli Way: An Interview with Dario Ciccarelli, Urban Biocultural Diversity Activist

A city of resilient "tribes" offers a lesson on how to preserve urban biocultural diversity. Stephen Houston (L) soaking in the atmosphere of busy…
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International Mother Language Day

Our Mother Tongue is a River We Can Return to Again and Again A Rarámuri woman with child in the Sierra Tarahumara. Photo: David…
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