Welcome to Terralingua! For over two decades, we’ve been working to promote understanding, appreciation, and support of biocultural diversity, the diversity of life in nature and culture. We believe that the world’s biodiversity, cultural diversity, and linguistic diversity are interlinked and interdependent and that sustaining biocultural diversity is essential for a healthy, just, and resilient future of life on earth.

Our Mission

We have worked to sustain the biocultural diversity of life — the world’s most precious heritage of biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity — through an innovative program of research, education, policy-relevant work, and on-the-ground action.

These days, our work has primarily been educational in nature, with Langscape Magazine, our flagship publication, the primary vehicle for publishing stories from Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers from around the world. We host the largest digital repository of stories about biocultural diversity. We invite you to enjoy these stories on our website!

Our Vision

A just, equitable, sustainable world in which the biocultural diversity of life is valued, protected, and perpetuated for generations to come.

Our Goal

To bring about a profound shift in human values through a deeper understanding and appreciation of the vital importance of biocultural diversity for the survival of all life on earth, so that individual and collective action is taken to care for it and sustain it in this rapidly changing world.

Our Strategy

Terralingua develops and deploys its expertise and insights on issues relating to biocultural diversity in international fora, through publications, public education, fieldwork and policy development, and by enrolling and informing a membership base.