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mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Nov 13, 2008
Promoting capacity for self-governance rather than using conventional systems governing intellectual property rights may be a more effective way to safeguard traditional knowledge of indigenous groups, argues a new …
Also tagged: human rights, law, canada, environment, brazil, green, kenya, biodiversity, medicinal plants, environmental law, indigenous people, ethnobotany, tribal groups, forest people
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Nov 13, 2008
Promoting capacity for self-governance rather than using conventional systems governing intellectual property rights may be a more effective way to safeguard traditional knowledge of indigenous groups, argues a new …
Also tagged: human rights, law, canada, environment, brazil, green, kenya, biodiversity, medicinal plants, environmental law, indigenous people, ethnobotany, tribal groups, forest people
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Oct 22, 2008
Illegal logging in the Peruvian Amazon is driving uncontacted tribes into Brazil where they are in conflict over food and resources with other uncontacted groups, according to a Reuters interview with a leading expert …
Also tagged: human rights, environment, amazon, brazil, logging, perù, oil, forests, green, latin america, south america, conservation, mining, deforestation, illegal logging, rainforests, indigenous people, tribal groups, forest people, threats to the amazon, amazon mining, threats to the rainforests
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Oct 16, 2008
Mechanisms that use forest conservation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are doomed to fail unless they are "based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples and forest communities," warn environmentalists and …
Also tagged: human rights, environment, forests, green, conservation, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon offsets, deforestation, carbon trading, poverty alleviation, rainforests, carbon sequestration, indigenous people, climate change politics, redd, tribal groups, saving rainforests, avoided deforestation, carbon conservation, carbon finance, forest people, conservation finance, global warming mitigation, rainforest conservation
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Oct 5, 2008
'Children of the Amazon', a new documentary by Denise Zmekhol, looks at the cultural transformation of the Surui and Negarote tribes following the development and improvement of a highway that penetrates deep into the …
Also tagged: reviews, environment, amazon, brazil, forests, forestry, deforestation, rainforests, indigenous people, tribal groups, rainforest agriculture, amazon people
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Oct 5, 2008
Indigenous forest dwellers in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have rejected a proposal to turn 80,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of the land into an oil palm plantation, reports the Malaysian Star.
Also tagged: environment, asia, forests, malaysia, borneo, forestry, palm oil, rainforests, indigenous people, tribal groups, happy upbeat environmental, rainforest agriculture
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Sep 9, 2008
The Malaysian government is attempting to quell indigenous opposition to logging in the rainforests of Borneo by deposing community leaders and replacing them with timber company stakeholders, reports an environmental …
Also tagged: environment, asia, logging, forests, malaysia, borneo, forestry, mining, palm oil, deforestation, dams, rainforests, indigenous people, tribal groups
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Aug 31, 2008
Peru's Congress rejected two decrees by President Alan García that made it easier for foreign developers to buy Amazon rainforest land. The repeal came just two days after lawmakers struck a deal with indigenous rights …
Also tagged: environment, amazon, perù, forests, latin america, south america, forestry, mining, deforestation, rainforests, indigenous people, tribal groups, amazon people, threats to the rainforest, threats to the amazon, amazon mining, evironmental law
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Aug 21, 2008
Lawmakers in Brazil are debating whether to allow mining companies to partner with indigenous groups to exploit mineral deposits deep in the Amazon rainforest, reports Bloomberg.
Also tagged: pollution, environment, amazon, brazil, forests, latin america, south america, forestry, mining, deforestation, environmental law, rainforests, indigenous people, gold mining, tribal groups, amazon people, threats to the rainforest, threats to the amazon
mongabay.com » Mongabay.com news - Aug 21, 2008
In Peru indigenous rights groups and congressional leaders are pairing up against President Alan Garcia to revoke a controversial land law passed last week, reports Reuters.
Also tagged: environment, amazon, perù, forests, latin america, south america, forestry, mining, deforestation, rainforests, indigenous people, tribal groups, amazon people, threats to the rainforest, threats to the amazon, amazon mining, evironmental law