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Climate change drives tribal conflict in Kenya
2016-07-31 19:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: Two tribes embroiled in conflict around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya have had substantial help towards finding a peaceful resolution. The process has helped ease tensions between the Turkana and Dassanech tribes. Fr Andrew Yakulula and his Missionary Community of St Paul Apostle colleagues, who were invited to the region by villagers to foster peace, have intervened to reduce the chances of herders and fishermen from opposing tribes running into each other at contested resource points. Shalom,...
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Conservation efforts can't afford to shy away from high-risk conflict zones
2016-07-11 08:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation: Between 1950 and 2000, 80% of the worlds armed conflicts took place within biodiversity hotspots. These are places that contain unusually high concentrations of animals and plants. The correlation between biodiversity hotspots and conflicts is striking. It has complex beginnings, and gives rise to both opportunities and challenges. There is a high prevalence of conflict in biodiversity hotspots for a variety of reasons. Biodiversity hotspots are often expansive areas of forest in remote places....
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Is Climate Change Making Conflict Worse?
2016-06-27 11:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: Recent evidence points to environmental stress having an adverse impact on weak or unstable countries, pointing to a grim future with droughts, floods and other extreme events expected to increase due to climate change. Right now, the world is looking at Venezuela, which is going through one of the worst economic crises in recent history. Its economy is collapsing before our eyes, and environmental factors aren`t helping. Drought is crippling the country`s hydro-power potential, devastating crops...
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'The more roads you have, the more conflict there will be with wildlife'
2016-06-21 22:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DW: 'The more roads you have, the more conflict there will be with wildlife' Conservationist Jonathan Slaght tells DW about Russia's fascinating Far East, the world's biggest owl and working with logging companies on conservation issues. US conservationist Jonathan Slaght has been fascinated by Russia's Far East ever since his first visit to the region in the 1990s. The Wildlife Conservation Societys (WCS) Russia and North East Asia program coordinator has since become an expert on fish owls,...
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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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