As seen on the Washington Post RIO DE JANEIRO — The critical role that vast tropical forests like Brazil’s Amazon play in suppressing climate change is…
As seen on Huffington Post LIMA, Perú (AP) — Eso no ocurre en Perú porque la titulación casi se ha detenido. Los últimos 14 años…
As seen on El Financiero CARMELITA, UN EJEMPLO SUSTENTABLE Una antigua pista de aterrizaje, en el corazón de la Reserva de la Biósfera Maya, anuncia…
As seen on E&E ClimateWire Elizabeth Harball and Niina Heikkinen, E&E reporters Six Latin American nations, with support from nongovernmental organizations, yesterday formally pledged to…
As seen on The Phnom Penh Post Nearly 100 per cent of Cambodia’s land concessions involve property already in use, inhabited by locals who are in…
As seen on Inter Press Service LIMA, Dec 6 2014 (IPS) – The clamor of indigenous peoples for recognition of their ancestral lands resounded among…
BOGOR, Indonesia—Financing and land tenure have snagged a global mechanism aimed at curbing carbon emissions through avoided tropical deforestation, according to a leading expert. The…
As seen on Con Nuestro Perú El informe: El Ambiente Mortal de Perú elaborado por Global Witness cuestiona el nivel de compromiso del país a la…
As seen on The Guardian Peru is home to the second largest block of Amazon rainforest after Brazil and has promising forest protection schemes (including REDD+) in…
As seen on Farm Land Grab (To endorse this statement, please write to Luca Raineri: [email protected]) Rights to water and land, a common struggle Dakar…
As seen on WRI Climate negotiators are currently at COP 20 in Lima to lay the foundation for a comprehensive climate agreement in Paris in…
BOGOR, Indonesia—From the Amazon forests of Peru and Brazil, to the Congo Basin and Tanzania, to Vietnam and Indonesian Borneo, more than 300 initiatives have…
The government of Colombia issued a New Decree that establishes administrative measures to protect Indigenous Peoples’ ownership of their ancestral territories, until titling process is…
Asuncion. 28 November 2014 – The Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, provided her preliminary observations and recommendations at a press…
As seen on Thompson Reuters Foundation KUMBA, Cameroon (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As the world’s fifth-largest cocoa producer, Cameroon should be reaping the benefits of…
As seen on The New York Times In September, four indigenous activists who stood up to unscrupulous loggers in a remote region of Peru’s rain…
As seen on Yahoo! News India Kolkata, Nov 27 (IANS) At least 25 percent of India’s districts are affected by some form of land conflict…
As seen on Reuters NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Civil unrest in India is expected to worsen after a 30 percent rise in two…
Friends of Wild Salmon and northern community organizations strongly support the First Nations and residents of Burnaby who are saying no to Kinder Morgan’s project…
As seen on Forbes In Indonesia, where forests are being destroyed at the highest rates in the world, an untapped solution exists for balancing conservation…
As seen on Newsweek Pucallpa is the end of the road – the last town before the Amazon becomes impenetrable overland. From here, logs floated…
As seen on Redd Monitor Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford, Ian Somerhalder. These are the big names that…
As seen on Thomson Reuters Foundation In 1864, one hundred and fifty years ago, idyllic Yosemite Valley in California was set aside by the US as…
As seen on Mongabay. Liz Kimbrough, mongabay.com correspondent Throughout the tropics, staggering amounts of land have been designated for natural resource extraction—as much as 40…