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Brazil: Parks, indigenous territories are effectively reducing Amazon deforestation
2013-03-12 00:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Strict conservation areas and indigenous reserves are more effective at reducing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon relative to "sustainble-use" areas set up for non-indigenous resource extraction, reports a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study, which involved researchers from the University of Michigan, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil, compared rates of forest loss between...
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1,200 riot police attack peaceful indigenous protesters in Colombia
2013-02-26 02:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Colombia Informa: After two weeks of peaceful protesting against oil exploitation in Arauca, on February 12 that departments social organizations began a strike announced a few days earlier as a response to the repeated broken promises by the national government and transnational companies. The last attempt at dialogue took place on Monday, February 11, between the Commissions spokespeople (composed of a delegation of indigenous people, peasants, youth, women, workers and community members) and representatives...
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Ecuadors president vows to push large-scale mining despite indigenous protest
2013-02-24 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Ecuador`s re-elected President Rafael Correa said Saturday he will push large-scale mining projects during his next four years in office, despite opposition from some indigenous groups. "The Ecuadoran people have voted to responsibly take advantage of non-renewable resources," said in a weekly address on his administration`s activities. Correa, a socialist, said his goal was to use the country`s mining and oil wealth to eliminate poverty and said he was committed to "the Amazonian people and...
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Indigenous resistance forces Malaysia to scale back twelve dam megaproject
2013-02-09 23:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: A Malaysian state minister Friday said the government would not push ahead with building a dozen new dams on Borneo island, acknowledging they have caused outrage from local tribes and environmentalists. The proposals sparked fears that the dams would destroy pristine rainforests, endanger wildlife, and displace natives in Sarawak, a Malaysian state crossed by powerful rivers with rich jungle habitats. "It is not a firm plan to build 12 dams. I don't think we will need that. We will only need...
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Helping Borneo's indigenous people fight for their forests
2013-01-28 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In the 1980's and 1990's more timber was removed from the rainforests Borneo than from all of Africa and South America combined. This tragic loss of habitat, with its attendant loss of wildlife and indigenous cultures, has gone largely unrecognized in the United States. Joe Lamb, a Berkeley-based writer, activist, and arborist, has worked to change that. In 1991 Lamb founded The Borneo Project to draw attention to the forgotten rainforest and the indigenous peoples who have been fighting to keep...
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