Three foreign breeds now account for 95% of them; to preserve its own kinds, China has a national gene bank (basically a giant freezer of pig semen) and a network of indigenous-pig menageries.
In Africa, the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee helps a network of 150 indigenous groups devise local and regional responses to climate change.
Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) is a mountainous region within which a network of agencies, organizations, indigenous groups, and communities is promoting and implementing a vision designed to anticipate and enable climate adaptation.
Since 2007, UNICEF has worked with the regional government and the organization of indigenous communities in Peru's Loreto region (known by its Spanish acronym, ORPIO) to create a network of civil registries for indigenous people in the most remote parts of the region, where the proportion of unregistered people is an estimated 26 per cent.
Such initiatives are the forerunner of a statewide and ultimately national network of Indigenous workers with an interest in cancer, particularly if effort is put into maintaining ongoing interest, connection and support.
As a member of the Democratic Network of Indigenous Pueblos, he is allowed to visit farmworkers but, he says, is restricted in what he may talk about.
Over the years, Gearheard has built a network of connections by working with indigenous organizations to identify people in Greenland and Alaska who are interested in working with scientists.
Spanish missionaries in La Florida had established a network of missions to convert the indigenous inhabitants to Roman Catholicism.
"I've just been doing what I've always been doing," says Sen. "But it's great that there's actually a network of films being produced and [Indigenous] film-makers who are being developed, and that these stories are getting out in the mainstream consciousness".
Vivian is slowly building up a network of support, reaching out over social media to other Indigenous mothers who have also lost their daughters.
Increasingly these cluster around the concept of the 'networked NGO' – a network of multi-party stakeholders or partners from civil society, government departments, indigenous communities, even the media, mostly located within the country where the development work is taking place.
