Tribal leaders plan the region’s ancient redwoods, endangered species such as the red-footed frog and the Little South River for generations. They also plan to use the land for educational purposes and build a classic village and country house near Pico Blanco, a separate mountain summit in the diversity of St. Lucia that is at the center of the history of the Esselen tribe.
“We are the first guardians of the earth. We are back now,” Tom Little Bear Nason, president of the Monterey County Esselen tribe, told the Santa Cruz Sentinel recently. “We will keep it and pass it on to our young men and grandchildren and beyond.
Julio saw additional progress in indigenous rights in the United States. Earlier this month, a Supreme Court ruling said that a portion of eastern Oklahoma remains an Aboriginal reserve, a ruling preventing the Oklahoma state government from prosecuting crimes involving natives in the new area.
A new UNICEF found that one in 3 international youth has a lead point in their blood that threatens their learning and behavioral development. Most of the young people affected by lead exposure are in Asia, Africa, Central and South America and Eastern Europe, where young people may be exposed due to poor recycling infrastructure for lead acid batteries or lead-contaminated food or water.
Florida, which has the current number of coronavirus cases in the country, is terminating its COVID-19 verification sites in anticipation of Tropical Storm Isaias. The typhoon is expected to arrive in Florida through Friday night, with forecast models divided according to its strength as it reaches the peninsula.
A record number of chimneys are burning the Brazilian Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland and UNESCO World Heritage Site. While the Pantanal reports on chimneys, this year the wetland is dry. The chimney season regularly is not successful in its heyday until September, and there have already been twice as much chimneys at the time last year, threatening the site’s remarkable biodiversity.