Biodiversity
Strengthen local forest rights for best climate solutions
Ranjan K Panda India needs to proactively include indigenous communities and forest dwellers in its efforts to restore and expand forest cover to sequester […]
Tag: indigenous
Biodiversity
“Guardians of the Amazon” seize illegal loggers to protect uncontacted tribe
Members of an Amazon tribe patrolling their rainforest reserve to protect uncontacted relatives from illegal loggers have seized a notorious logging gang, burned their truck, and […]
Biodiversity
Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities
Yvette Sierra Praeli Peru has passed a controversial law that makes highway construction in border areas and maintaining trucking roads in the Ucayali Region […]
Climate
There is a need for a stronger tribal voice at COP 23
Survival International is calling for greater recognition from world leaders for tribal peoples’ crucial role in protecting the environment, ahead of the COP 23 conference in Bonn, […]
Aid
Climate finance failing on forest protection
Lou Del Bello Climate finance, while efficient in sectors such as renewable energy, is not effective in protecting increasingly threatened forests or the rights of […]