“Risk comes about when people and ecosystems and infrastructure are exposed to those hazards… when it has underlying weaknesses… so we need to think about what we can do to reduce that risk.”

David Dodman at #ChristchurchConversations @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025

“As Ngāi Tahu we migrated south to Te Waipounamu… We have been adapting all our lives.
I think it’s really inspiring as a young person to think back to our ancestors and how they have succeeded because we are all here today.”

The awesome Thomas Blakie at #AF2025 @adaptationfutures.bsky.social

“We are trying to collect & safeguard knowledge that is there.
In many countries that knowledge is held by few and the way that it was transferred before is hard to do now. Many of our people are moving away from our villages to cities.”

Sefanaia Nawadra at #AF2025 @adaptationfutures.bsky.social

“At SPREP we have developed model legislation that safeguards Indigenous Knowledge & recognises it as something to be protected and respected when it is used.”

Director General of SPREP, Sefanaia Nawadra, closing the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025

Professor Steve Ratuva opening the panel at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025 reminding us of the critical time we are in for adaptation and rollbacks of Indigenous Rights.

“Indigenous peoples have lived through upheavals before… including ice ages and colonisation… our knowledge systems are built for adaptation.”

Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social #AF2025 Indigenous Forum

“We recognise that Indigenous communities are already doing the adaptation work.”

Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D Huson shares a vision for an Indigenous Climate Adaptation Network at the Indigenous Forum of @adaptationfutures.bsky.social

“It’s a living breathing community of relationship.”

#AF2025

‪“We [Indigenous Peoples] are not asking to join the adaptation agenda - we ARE the adaptation agenda.”‬

‪“If being Indigenous is to adapt then adaptation must become Indigenous.”‬

‪Marama Royal at @adaptationfutures.bsky.social Indigenous Forum #AF2025‬

“We were the first responders… that’s what we do as Māori”

Marama Royal speaking of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei response to the Auckland Anniversary Floods and Cyclone Gabrielle & the need for Māori leadership in the emergency management space to be recognised & formalised

#AdaptationFutures2025

Finally! 900 days of Arabic, with a little Japanese, Spanish, and French thrown in.

I completed the Arabic course about a month ago but am actually finding the revision lessons better than the main course!

#LeanArabic #DuoLingo

This is my whenua. My ancestors are buried here, as is my umbilical cord & I hope those of my descendants.

I can’t imagine the pain if I lost access to this sacred place or if my whānau were attacked the way Palestinians are right now.

#Indigenous4Palestine #LandBack ✊🏽

Bombastic side eye to all the climate orgs who cover up, enable and propagate gatekeeping, institutional gaslighting, and otherwise toxic behaviour in our movements and then leave BIPOC and marginalised activists and orgs to clean up the mess.

Tired but happy gal just had her first proper Arabic class after more than a year getting nowhere with DuoLingo. Worth getting up at 5am for and can’t wait for the next session! 💚