In late February representatives from the tribes of Manipur met during a consultation “On Tribals' Land” Forests & Natural Resources.” Participants expressed their concerns over…
Read the full report from NFFPFW on the Forest Peoples Programme website here.
The ActIn late 2006″ India enacted the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest-Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act. This was the culmination of decades of…
Conflict between forest-dwelling tribals and the forest department continues” most recently in a series of violent conflicts in the Sabarkantha district of Gujarat in western…
A new report launched in Monrovia today” proposes formalizing customary Liberian land ownership by registering it as private property. This would signal the launch of…
RRI Partner Forest Peoples Programme(FPP) reports about the difficulties faced by forest dwellers in India.Their situation was supposed to improve after the adoption of a…
Monday” April 23 two side-events at the UN Forum on Forestshighlighted the importance of community forestry and small-scale forestenterprise for sustainable development and local well-being….
Forest plantations” highlighted in the September 2006 edition of arborvitae” the IUCN/WWF Forest Conservation Newsletter. Including: Forest Plantations: the good” the bad and the ugly….
External reviews find most logging in Papua New Guinea illegal” unsustainable” and providing little benefit to the state and forest community. A new report on…