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Indigenous carbon farming project still burning bright despite market uncertainty
2015-02-27 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: One of the Northern Territory's longest running carbon farming projects is gearing up for another season, but for the first time it is not working with a fixed price on carbon. Since 2011, the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC) has generated over 80,000 carbon credits from its Fish River Station through a savanna burning carbon farming project, which reduces the frequency of late season wildfires. The project has previously sold credits to Caltex for more than $500,000. The acting manager...
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Australia: How Indigenous dance can change way we understand climate change
2015-02-26 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Goolarabooloo people have their own name for James Price Point: Walmadany. Its a spectacular bit of country in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, with soil the colour of burnt orange, and sapphire blue waters. But Walmadany is also a site of contention, and Woodside Petroleums plans for a $45bn gas hub on the site were met by mass protests. While those plans were eventually abandoned in 2013, talk of drilling for liquified natural gas wont go away. This is not the first time...
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Why the Lima Climate Talks Sucked for Women and Indigenous People
2014-12-19 20:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As a credentialed observer inside the COP20 in Lima last week, I was bored to tears. Endless speeches. Panel discussions in dark rooms. Men in expensive suits. My colleague Nnimmo Bassey, a leading Nigerian environmental justice activist and winner of the Right Livelihood Award, blogged, Negotiation arenas remain places for fiddling while Rome burns. Observers watched the opening ceremony on a big screen from the back of the hall. All the speakers, including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said...
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Peru Criticized Disregarding Rights of Indigenous in Amazon
2014-12-09 11:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Peruvian Times: Indigenous organizations and international human rights activists say Peru is failing to protect the rights of indigenous people in its Amazon rainforest, putting at risk the individuals and the carbon stored in their lands. The report, produced by Perus national indigenous group, Aidesep ,and the UK-based Forest Peoples Programme, said the Peruvian government has ignored the real drivers of deforestation in its vast Amazonian region, home to some of the most biologically diverse spots on earth....
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Indigenous Peoples Are the Owners of the Land Say Activists
2014-12-07 00:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The clamor of indigenous peoples for recognition of their ancestral lands resounded among the delegates of 195 countries at the climate summit taking place in the Peruvian capital. "I want my land"that's where I live and eat, and it's where my saintly grandparents lie," Diana Ros shouted with rage. The 21-year-old Ashninka woman is the daughter of Jorge Ros, an indigenous leader who was killed in September for defending the forests of his community, Alto Tamaya Saweto, in Peru's Ucayali...
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