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An Indigenous Environmental Activist Is Building a Solar Network in the Heart of Canadas Tar Sands
2016-06-19 18:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Last summer, in a remote Alberta First Nation surrounded by pipelines and increasingly plagued with oil spills and forest fires, workers wearing reflective vests attached 80 giant solar panels to 20-foot poles. Overseeing the operation and coordinating its documentation with a film crew was Greenpeace campaigner Melina Laboucan-Massimo. "It's a big system," the 34-year-old Cree Lubicon woman told VICE from the job site last August. "It will probably be one of the biggest solar installations in...
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Brazilian indigenous land activist killed in conflict with farmers - govt agency
2016-06-16 05:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An indigenous activist was shot dead in southwestern Brazil and at least six others seriously wounded when their camp was attacked by armed farmers, a government agency said. Clodiode Rodrigues de Souza, 26, a member of the Guarani-Kaiowa indigenous group was killed and five other adults and a child were hospitalized in Mato Grosso do Sul state on Tuesday, the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), said. The campaigners had set up a camp in a push to have their ancestral land claims to be formally...
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Indigenous rights and private funding key to slowing deforestation, says Norway minister
2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Efforts to save the world's forests hinge on securing private sector funds and ensuring indigenous communities in tropical forests are more involved in protecting their environment, Norway's environment minister said. Speaking ahead of a high-level conference on forest conservation hosted by Norway, Vidar Helgesen said stronger political leadership is needed to amplify the voices and role of indigenous people in forest conservation. Norway is the biggest donor to the United Nations program...
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Pioneer gas project in Latin America fails indigenous peoples
2016-06-03 02:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Every year a group of experts called the South Peru Panel issues a report on the countrys largest ever energy development which extracts natural gas and natural gas liquids from the Amazon and pipes them all the way across the Andes to Perus Pacific coast. The conclusions of its latest report? Very positive macroeconomic benefits and without precedent in Perus modern economic history, but pathetic, if not disastrous, for the indigenous people living near where the gas is extracted. The...
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Panama's indigenous tribes launch drones to fight deforestation
2016-06-02 06:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indigenous people in Panama are using drones as a new weapon to monitor deforestation on their lands as thousands of hectares disappear every year in one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests, the United Nations said. More than half of Panama is covered with tropical rainforest, home to various indigenous groups who rely on the forests to survive. "The main objective of monitoring with drones is to identify changes in specific points of the forest cover," the U.N. Food and Agriculture...
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