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Peru gas firm moves into indigenous people's reserve
2014-01-27 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Peru's ministry of culture (Mincu) has given its approval for the expansion of the country's biggest gas project in a reserve for indigenous people and the buffer zone of the Manu national park. The expansion will involve drilling 18 wells, conducting seismic tests across hundreds of square kms, and building a 6.5 mile flowline in the supposedly protected Kugapakori-Nahua-Nanti Reserve for indigenous people in "voluntary isolation" and "initial contact." Mincu's approval constitutes a dramatic...
UN Climate Negotiations: Indigenous Resistance from Within
2014-01-12 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NACLA: As climate finance and loss and damage payments dominated the agenda at last November's United Nations climate change negotiations in Warsaw, Poland, indigenous peoples groups fought to be heard. One of the most vocal and visible indigenous groups at the UN climate talks, COICA (The Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon) was founded in 1984 as the umbrella group for more than 350 indigenous organizations in nine different countries. It works to address issues of human rights,...
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Indigenous People & Their Interface With Wildlife: An Interview With Dr. Michael Hutchins
2014-01-11 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The following interview is my 12th in a series with my esteemed colleague Dr. Michael Hutchins. Michael recently joined the American Bird Conservancy, as the organizations National Bird Smart Wind Campaign Coordinator. The distinguished ecologist has agreed to answer my questions about indigenous knowledge and the impact of such informational resources on the management of wildlife populations. Jordan: In many cases, the large scale hunting of megafauna by indigenous peoples has been implicated...
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Indonesian indigenous groups fight climate change with GPS mapping
2014-01-09 03:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IRIN: Indigenous communities in Indonesia are using GPS technology to demarcate the boundaries of their ancestral lands, a move many believe could also help mitigate the negative effects of climate change. "Community mapmaking has been a successful tool to show the government that we are here, and that we want to protect our lands," says Rukka Sombolinggi, a spokeswoman for the Indigenous Peoples' Alliance of the Archipelago (Aman), a Jakarta-based secretariat representing more than 2,000 communities....
Malaysias Indigenous People Intensify Anti-Dam Battle
2013-12-23 19:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The strongest wave of indigenous protests since the 1990s is underway in Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. On International Human Rights Day, December 10, hundreds of people across the state demonstrated against a series of 12 mega-dams planned by the government company Sarawak Energy. Bakun dam on the Balui River, the world`s second largest dam, is complete and began operating in 2011, while the second in the series, Murum dam, is nearing completion. If all the dams are built,...
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