As seen on The Hindu When the National Democratic Alliance government amended the land acquisition Act through an ordinance last week, it promised to set…
As seen on Business Standard More than 250 conflicts have arisen over land acquisitioncases between 2013 and 2014 in 165 of India’s 664 districts. This is…
Prominent politicians join in demanding dissolution of Presidential Terai Conservation Committee. A series of demonstrations by thousands of residents kicked off this month in Chure…
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…
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…
Download the Press Release here. Download the Conference Statement here. A gathering of participants from seven countries in Southeast Asia debated paths to ensure that…
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…
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…
With land and forest related disputes reported in at least 25 percent of India’s districts, wave of conflicts around land takeovers raises questions about India’s…
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…
Nature is Speaking, a new campaign from Conservation International, uses celebrity voices to personify natural forces — Penelope Cruz is water, Kevin Spacey is the…
As seen on the New Indian Express BHUBANESWAR: Hundreds of tribals, including Dongoria Kandhas of Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi district, on Saturday lodged a strong…
As seen on Forest Peoples Program Tuesday 4 November 2014, Yangon, Myanmar – National Human Rights Commissions of ASEAN member countries, civil society organisations from…
As seen on Vientiane Times Assurance of the legality of Lao timber is a step closer after negotiations with the European Union (EU) regarding forestry…
A new report reveals that Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world’s 10 largest pulp and paper companies with over US$20 billion in…
As seen on Inter Press Service BALI, Indonesia, Sep 20 2014 (IPS) – When she talks about the forests in her native Kalimantan, the Indonesian part…
Joint Civil Society Statement for the 36th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry “Regional Civil Society Dialogue to Improve Food Security, Agriculture…
As seen on the Bangkok Post In an apparent move to prove that a military regime can do what civilian governments could not, the National…
Public hearings into violations of Indigenous People’s rights are set to begin today in Palu, Sulawesi, kicking off a series of similar hearings around Indonesia….
As seen on the Vientiane Times Rural people are facing challenges resulting from the granting of land concessions, which have limited the forest areas available…
58 percent of Nepal’s land is currently held by the government in the name of conservation, often displacing and leaving the country’s diverse and widespread…
As seen on Vientiane Times Officials have discovered more than 4,732 cubic metres of logs amounting to over 45.6 billion kip (more than US$5.6 million)…
As seen on ASB – Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins: Internal migrants in Indonesia have shifted land arrangements, resulting in both social and ecological…