Welcome to Terralingua — Your Hub for Biocultural Diversity.

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Did you know? Biocultural diversity is the diversity of life in nature and culture. It’s a living network made up of the millions of species of plants and animals and the thousands of human cultures and languages that have evolved on earth. And you are a part of it!

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Think of it as biodiversity, cultural diversity, and linguistic diversity all bound together — interconnected and interdependent. That “inextricable link” has arisen over time through coevolution and through the myriad ways in which people around the globe have interacted with the natural environment.

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We at Terralingua came together around the idea of “biocultural diversity” 25 years ago. In fact, we coined that term! We recognized that diversity in both nature and culture is vital for the thriving of life on earth, and since then we’ve been promoting understanding, appreciation, and support of biocultural diversity worldwide.

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If you, like us, believe that sustaining biocultural diversity is essential for a healthy, just, and resilient future of life on earth, you’ve come to the right place! We’re your hub for learning more about biocultural diversity, then read stories, find resources, watch videos and listen to podcasts, and more.

Featured Updates

Langscape Magazine — New Call for Stories

Send us an Expression of Interest for Langscape Magazine Vol. 12! For this issue of Langscape, we ask some thought-provoking questions on the theme of “From Rights to Responsibilities: Toward a Biocultural Resurgence.” Learn more.

Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle — New Call for Stories

Send a story to the Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle! Young Indigenous people are invited to submit a story about ways they’re (re)connecting with their ancestral languages, cultures, traditional knowledge, and lands. Learn more.

Read Stories from our Current Issue

Read a new story every week about how the Indigenous principles of Reverence, Respect, and Reciprocity can help build a just, equitable, sustainable world in which biocultural diversity can thrive. Read our current issue.

Buy our Special Anniversary Issue of Langscape Magazine

For our 25th anniversary, we assembled some of the most memorable and colorful stories we’ve ever published, chosen by our team and our readers. Enjoy them in a new, inspiring context and with a stunning design. Buy now.

Langscape Magazine

Unique stories celebrating the bounty of diversity in nature and culture. Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices and viewpoints. Stunning pictures, videos, and art. Discover Langscape Magazine, our flagship publication — thought-provoking, inspiring, and always ad-free.

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My Homeland

A Khasi youth expresses love and pride for his native land and culture. WORDS AND IMAGE Carmel Fedrick Malngiang Khasiland — The name of my homeland, Located somewhere on earth. Famous For its beauty, rain songs, and war Rich in culture and Unique in history. The aroma of love pervades the air, The

Redisconnection

A statement of resolve and determination to reconnect to heritage. WORDS AND ART Cheyenne Muscovich I’m regrowing my tongue Yet still it is cut The field gets watered but the water is dirty It was used to wash the guilt of others’ pasts I’m regrowing my body It is stunted from the

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My Homeland

A Khasi youth expresses love and pride for his native land and culture. WORDS AND IMAGE Carmel Fedrick Malngiang Khasiland — The name of my homeland, Located somewhere on earth. Famous For its beauty, rain songs, and war Rich in culture and Unique in history. The aroma of love pervades the air, The

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Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle

Explore inspiring, first-person stories from Indigenous youth worldwide — and share your own! Our Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle (IYSC) provides a global platform for Indigenous youths to share their unique perspectives online and/or in print via Langscape Magazine, Terralingua’s flagship publication.

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News & Views

Send A Story for Our Next Issue of Langscape Magazine

We’re inviting Expressions of Interest on the theme of “Rights to Responsibilities: Toward a Biocultural Resurgence” for Langscape Magazine, to be published in 2023 For this issue, we ask some thought-provoking questions: Can we have rights without responsibilities? Is today’s predominant focus on rights distracting us from paying attention to the other side of the

Send Your Story to the Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle

We’re calling for stories from young Indigenous people from around the world. If you’re a young Indigenous person up to 35 years old, we invite you to join the Indigenous Youth Storytellers Circle! Your story can be about any of the following four areas, or any combination of them. We are interested in hearing how

Celebrate & Support Biocultural Diversity this May

This month, the UN celebrates Cultural Diversity Day (May 21) and Biological Diversity Day (May 22). We at Terralingua would like to take that a step further and recommend that Cultural Diversity Day and Biodiversity Day would be better combined into Biocultural Diversity Day! Cultural diversity and biological diversity are inextricably interlinked; both give vitality