SHEroic Journeys: Vietnamese Women's Eco-Trekking Tales for Climate Action

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Our project is working directly with ethnic minority and indigenous women in the Hoang Lien National Park are in Northern Vietnam. As one of the most bio-diverse communities in Vietnam, HLNP is facing numerous challenges due to climate change, making conserving these natural assets increasingly difficult. These challenges are further complicated by intensive agriculture alongside large tourism developments that are also threatening the livelihoods and traditional ways of living amongst the ethnically diverse HLNP communities, and particularly, the women. 

Our research explores how, through adopting women-led, eco-trekking practices as a sustainable livelihood, the women can become agents for change in preserving both the natural environment and their indigenous rights and practices. Using participatory action research, and innovative forms of knowledge exchange, the project will co-create new understandings of how through sharing traditional and indigenous knowledges and creative storytelling, eco-trekking practices can be viewed as an important form of in/direct climate action.