5 July 2021
The San can be considered as one of the earliest inhabitants of Southern Africa. Much like in the rest of Southern Africa, the San of Botswana have consistently been marginalized, negated, and relegated to the margins of society.
3 July 2021
Land grabs facilitated by multinational corporations, foreign investors and local governments in a pursuit for agribusiness have been escalating during the last decade. Huge acquisitions of farmland have led to violent displacements of rural populations. Although reports of the practice are not as
23 June 2021
The European Investment Bank has large investments in Nepal, with four projects in its energy sector, but has done little to stop rights violations.
22 June 2021
Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | The Batwa, a small indigenous forest-dwelling community found in Southwestern Uganda, are set to benefit from a new research project that seeks to understand the emotional effects of environmental change experienced by the world’s indigenous groups.
11 June 2021
Biodiversity is plummeting, but restoring rivers could quickly reverse this disastrous trend.
11 June 2021
As drought and climate change make fires worse, officials are returning to Native nations’ time-tested techniques. Returning the land would be better.
4 June 2021
La biosfera del Río Plátano comienza a lo largo de la costa noreste de Honduras y se extiende al sur hacia el interior de las densas selvas tropicales. El río Plátano, nombrado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO en 1982, es uno de los ecosistemas más impresionantes del planeta.
17 May 2021
The threats facing Indigenous people opposing industrial operations on their lands — discrimination, harassment and assassination — all disproportionately affect women. And the coronavirus pandemic has done little to reduce the danger, say Indigenous and faith leaders.
15 May 2021
Early this year the world commemorated the International Day of Forests, with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) joining Uganda to reiterate their commitment to restoring forests and degraded lands, as well as calling for action to reduce deforestation.
Background
The call for forest
11 May 2021
A letter signed by Indigenous leaders and environmental defenders from the Amazon, West Africa, Southeast Asia and elsewhere blasts BlackRock for failing to hold companies in its investment portfolio accountable for deforestation and land grabs.
“While BlackRock makes pledges to ask portfolio
10 May 2021
On April 26, 2021, the Decree amending several provisions of Mexico’s General Law of Sustainable Forestry Development was published in the Federal Official Gazette (DOF). The Decree is effective as of April 27.
In relevant part, the Decree’s amendments include the following:
Changes to land use of
3 May 2021
(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has pledged to address gaps in the implementation of a power project in Nepal, handing a rare victory to indigenous groups and local communities who had raised concerns about being uprooted from their land.
A complaint by Nepali