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Indonesia: Rights for us mean forests for all
2013-06-30 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: Though one of us lives in Central America and the other in Indonesia -- nearly half the Earths circumference away from each other -- we have the same urgent message for the decision makers who are gathered in Indonesia this week to discuss how best to slow climate change. For hundreds of years, we -- the indigenous peoples of the tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America -- have protected the forests that are now of such great interest in the battle against the changing climate. We...
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