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350 Myanmar farmers facing court over land grabs
Date: 23 February 2017
Source: Gulf Times
Some 350 farmers from Myanmar's Mandalay region are facing court cases related to land-grabbing, most of them brought since Aung San Suu Kyi's government took power a year ago, lawyers and activists said Thursday.
Honduras ‘deadliest country’ to defend environmental rights
Date: 23 February 2017
Source: The Irish Times
Honduras is the deadliest country on Earth to be a defender of environmental rights with conflict over mining, hydropower and agribusiness leading to the deaths of many people from indigenous groups and rural communities, the Global Witness charity has said.
FEATURE-Illegal settlers threaten Zimbabwe's timber industry
By: Andrew Mambondiyani
Date: 21 February 2017
Source: Reuters
From the mountaintop at Skyline in the Chimanimani district of eastern Zimbabwe, a mosaic of scorched trees and timber can be seen stretching for miles on end.
Lit by a wave of illegal settlers, the fires regularly rage through the pine and eucalyptus plantations of Manicaland province, destroying vast swathes of timber at enormous cost.
COMMENTARY: Who will benefit from Jokowi's land reform?
By: Adisti Sukma Sawitri
Date: 21 February 2017
Source: The Jakarta Post
The government has made a bold move with its plan to grant people wider access to land under its agrarian reform.
Chamber of Mines Calls For Collaboration To Fight Illegal Miners
Date: 19 February 2017
Source:News Ghana
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr John Peter Amewu has reiterated government’s commitment to address holistically the menace of illegal mining.
Speaking during a courtesy call on him by members of the Ghana Chamber of Mines, Mr Amewu called for collaboration with the Chamber to take the fight to the illegal miners.
Government Ditches Hydropower Dam for More Coal Power
By:KHUON NARIM AND ZSOMBOR PETER
Date: 20 February 2017
Source: The Cambodia Daily
The government has indefinitely put off plans for a hydropower dam in Koh Kong province’s Areng valley in favor of expanding an existing coal-fired power plant, though conservationists worry that a planned transmission line through the ecologically sensitive valley could still inflict heavy damage.