{"id":1763,"date":"2009-11-30T23:57:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T07:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2009-11-30T23:57:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T07:57:52","slug":"terralingua-unity-in-biocultural-diversity-m4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/11\/30\/terralingua-unity-in-biocultural-diversity-m4-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Terralingua: Unity in Biocultural Diversity (M4-2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/html\/home.html\">http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/html\/home.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the website for Terralingua, an organization devoted to the \u201cintegrated protection, maintenance and restoration of the biocultural diversity of life \u2013 the world\u2019s invaluable heritage of biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity \u2013 through an innovative program of research, education, policy-relevant work, and on-the-ground action\u201d (para. 1).<\/p>\n<p>On the site, you will find links to the organization\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/about\/Statement.html\">statement of purpose<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/about\/History.html\">administration<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/about\/History.html\">history<\/a>, as well as a listing of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/projects\/projects.htm\">initiatives<\/a> that they are carrying out.\u00a0 Terralingua\u2019s work relates to indigenous cultures in that part of their mission is to promote linguistic diversity among humankind\u2014indigenous and non-indigenous alike.\u00a0 Because indigenous languages and cultures are the ones that are endangered, much focus is placed on these languages.\u00a0 In addition, one of their focuses is in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and language loss, and the effects on biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>This information would be a great starting point for someone looking for information on research initiatives involving indigenous people worldwide.\u00a0 Though not all updated, the following sections will be of use to the researcher:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/activities\/intro.html\">Activities<\/a> (Outlines some of the specific projects undertaken by Terralingua)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/publications\/intro.html\">Publications<\/a> (Articles and print material published by Terralingua)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/basics\/intro.html\">Resources<\/a> (FAQ\u2019s, Introductory information about biodiversity and TEK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.terralingua.org\/html\/home.html This is the website for Terralingua, an organization devoted to the \u201cintegrated protection, maintenance and restoration of the biocultural diversity of life \u2013 the world\u2019s invaluable heritage of biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity \u2013 through an innovative program of research, education, policy-relevant work, and on-the-ground action\u201d (para. 1). On the site, you will find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":900,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1098,6703,6704],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-4","tag-biodiversity","tag-terralingua","tag-traditional-ecological-knowledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}