As written by Rob Chaney in The Missoulian. PABLO – The big orange zone on Terry Tanner’s Mission Mountains Tribal Wilderness map drew a lot…
As seen on IPS By Ethan Freedman Women farmers clearing abandoned farmland in the drought-affected Nachol village in Northern Bangladesh. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS WASHINGTON, Jul…
As seen on One World South Asia Sujoy Dhar 05 July 2012 With lives that are closely bound to the forest, these tribal…
As seen on IISD Reporting Services 30 May 2012: Ahead of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD, or Rio+20), the Rights and Resources Initiative…
As seen on Deutsche Welle Autora: Nádia PontesRevisão: Carlos Albuquerque Estudo compara evolução dos direitos dos habitantes da floresta em 27 países que possuem…
As seen on Epoca Negocios May 30, 2012 O RECONHECIMENTO DO DIREITO à TERRA A COMUNIDADES INDíGENAS E RIBEIRINHOS FOI UMA DAS POUCAS DECISõES HISTóRICAS QUE…
As seen on CBS Money Watch HOUQIAO, China — A report says that ensuring forest dwellers' rights over their own land is a crucial step…
As seen on www.indiablooms.comWashington, May 30 (IBNS) New research released by the non-profit group Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) on Wednesday shows that hundreds of…
RRI sponsored a trip to Budhikhamari, Orissa, India for journalists interested in India's tenure reform process earlier this month (May 2012). For details on the…
As seen on ooskanews.com 22 May 2012 – 10:35 By OOSKAnews Correspondent WASHINGTON DC — International environmental group International Rivers, in a report released last…
As posted on Mongabay.com on May 16, 2012 Despite a global trend towards urbanization some 1.2-1.7 billion people worldwide remain primarily dependent on forests for…
As written by Elisabeth Malkin for The New York Times on November 22, 2010IXTLáN de JUáREZ, Mexico — As an unforgiving midday sun bore down…
Regional workshops addressing government forestry classification practices were recently held in the towns of Edea and Kribi, Cameroon. The meetings were organized by Cameroon Ecology,…
An international team of scientists, including experts from Singapore, has proven for the first time that deforestation increases the risk of flood disasters, which kill…
An article published in the Hindu highlights the necessity to balance conservation and livelihoods concerns, so as not to alienate the communities who inhabit the…
The following is an excerpt from an article published in the Laotian newspaper Vientiane Times. The PM said he had once seen a photo of…
China Daily published the following article today, highlighting theresponsibility of Western markets in the loss of forest cover intropical areas. "Western consumption 'causes forest shrinkage'…
Conservation goes back to its roots Ashish Kothari International Herald Tribune 16 November 2006 DawaTsering Sherpa never thought he would see this day. Standing in…
On November 8, 2006 the Civil Society Advisory Group (CSAG) to the International Tropical Timber Organization(ITTO) gave a formal presentation of the Rights and ResourcesInitiative…
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….
September 25th to 27th, founding partners of the RedForestal met in the ICAES center in San José, Costa Rica. The main objective of the workshop was…