Description

This article describes the ways that healthy communities and healthy ecosystems work together to preserve the diversities of culture, which positively feedbacks to promote biodiversity and healthier ecosystems and communtiies. It draws on Indigenous Peoples' association of their own laws with those of the natural world (Natural Laws) upon which all aspects of life and existence depend. Natural Laws come from the Creator and the Land through ancestral stories and are considered sacred. The authors discuss how, since colonization, these natural laws have been forcibly replaced with modern-day laws that do not take into account the sacred relationship between the Earth and all inhabitants, and the implications of this for planetary health and wider environmental movements around the globe.

Link to Resource

Indigenous Natural and First Law in Planetary Health.