This Sunday we celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Every 9 August, the world commemorates the inaugural session of the 1982 Working Group on Indigenous Populations at the United Nations. It is also a special day to highlight and amplify the call for the protection of the rights of the Indigenous Peoples around the world as they continue to suffer from grave social, political, and corporate injustices. Oceania and Asia as a geographic region is a unique territory with five or more biomes of vital planetary importance. It is comprised of rich mountainous and island areas of profound biodiversity and the most extensive cultural diversity. However, its waters, forests, and peoples are gravely threatened by extractive industries and policies driving consumerism and urbanization without balance for the land. There is so much that is still not understood in terms of how interconnected and complex the challenges are in Asia and Oceania and how these should be addressed from a territorial bottom-up approach to ensure that indigenous and local communities are supported, and their rights upheld. The Pacific, one-third of the planet’s surface, is the largest climate determinant on Earth producing much of the oxygen and the climate
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