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Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect Amazon
2013-12-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads have spread their tentacles and ranchers have expanded their grazing, all is brown. Beginning in the early 1980s, these photos from space lost more and more green, so that by 2004 the destruction seemed unstoppable. Brazil's deforestation rate had reached an alarming 27,000 square kilometers (nearly 17,000 square miles) per year. But stop it did-not everywhere, but at the borders of what appears from space...
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Indigenous groups win right to pursue Chevron assets in Canada in Amazon pollution case
2013-12-20 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indigenous plaintiffs in a long-running legal dispute against Chevron won the right to pursue the oil giant's assets in Canada as part of a $9.5 billion judgement by an Ecuadorean court over damages in the Amazon, reports Amazon Watch. On Tuesday Ontario's Court of Appeal ruled that 47 Ecuadorean plaintiffs can proceed with an effort to seize Chevron's Canadian assets. The decision reversed an earlier ruling that the oil company didn't have any assets in Canada. In the ruling, the three judge...
Indonesia urged to implement decision recognizing indigenous rights to land
2013-12-10 22:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indigenous rights groups are circulating a petition asking the Indonesian government to immediately implement a court ruling that would take management of million of hectares of customary forest out of the hands of the Ministry of Forestry and turn it over to traditional communities. The petition was posted on Change.org by Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), a group whose request for review of the country's 1999 forestry law prompted the Constitutional Courts decision on the...
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Ecuador's government shuts down indigenous rights organization over oil battle
2013-12-10 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Last Wednesday, the government of Ecuador shutdown the indigenous rights NGO, Fundación Pachamama, in Quito over the group's opposition to oil drilling in indigenous areas. More than a dozen government officials showed up at Pachamama's office with a resolution by the Ministry of Environment that officially dissolved the organization, the first such moved by the government which in June passed an Executive Decree that tightened governmental oversight of the country's NGOs. The Ecuadorean government,...
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Indigenous Canadian anti-fracking protesters refuse to back down
2013-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Anti-fracking demonstrators set tires ablaze to block a New Brunswick highway Monday in a fiery response to a judges decision to extend an injunction limiting their protests against a Texas-based shale gas exploration company. In a courtroom in Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, Judge Paulette Garnett ruled to continue through Dec. 17 the injunction obtained by SWN Resources Canada against a coalition of protesters led by Mikmaq indigenous people from the Elsipogtog First Nation. The...
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