Tebtebba and CHIRAPAQ: Indigenous Peoples demand participation in national forest monitoring systems
Press release from Tebtebba and CHIRAPAQ Indigenous Peoples point out that the inhabitants of the forest are better qualified than anyone else to understand what…
As seen on Down to Earth. Globally, forest governance is undergoing reforms to benefit from community forestry MEXICO AND India are worlds apart, both in…
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…
During a discussion session at the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum in Lima, Peru, RRI, the World Resources Institute, and the Governance, Environment and Markets Initiative…
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 Inter Press Service LIMA, Dec 6 2014 (IPS) – The clamor of indigenous peoples for recognition of their ancestral lands resounded among…
The global forest crisis is worsening as infringements of the rights of indigenous peoples and forest-dependent communities are rising, according to a detailed assessment of…
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…
New report by Forest Peoples Programme finds that the Peruvian government is failing to address the real causes of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon while…
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 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 Newsweek Pucallpa is the end of the road – the last town before the Amazon becomes impenetrable overland. From here, logs floated…
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…
“Gracias al apoyo de la Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (AIDESEP), la Coordinadora de las organizaciones indígenas de la cuenca amazónica (COICA),…
Descargue el Dialogo Estados y Propuestas Indígenas sobre COP20 aquí. La Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC) es uno de los principales…
With several billboards, radio programs in different cities and a documentary in Lima about Edwin Chota, a new campaign, “Indigenous Action for Humanity”, was launched…
The Rights and Resources Initiative supported four indigenous Maya Q’eqchi’ communities in Belize fighting illegal oil exploration on their ancestral lands in Sarstoon-Temash National Park:…
Four networks of institutions in Peru – Colectivo Territorios Seguros para las Comunidades del Perú, la Plataforma de Ordenamiento Territorial, Red Muqui and la Plataforma…
Este decreto representa un hito histórico hacia la consolidación de los territorios indígenas como entidades estatales. Con la expedición de este decreto, el Gobierno adopta…
As seen on Peruvian Times The widows of three of four indigenous men who were killed by illegal loggers in the eastern Ucayali region, were in Lima…