The Kenyan government has sent police troops to Embobut forest area (in Elgeyo Marakwet County, Western Kenya) to forcefully evict thousands of the indigenous inhabitants of the Sengwer and Cherangany communities from their ancestral forestlands. The eviction is expected to commence as early as
The Land Governance course challenges forest and nature management professionals to adopt an integrative perspective, to look beyond the forest, and build bridges between the public and the private sector. It focuses on the development of institutional development at landscape level including
By: Sanitsuda Ekachai
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
By: Rina Chandran
Date: October 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian officials have been slow to implement a landmark law giving rights to forests to indigenous people because they view it as a handicap to development projects spurring expansion
By: Alex Kirby
Date: April 26th 2016
Source: Climate Change News
Researchers highlight importance of carbon-sucking forests alongside New York climate deal signing ceremony
The world’s tropical forests are a key part of slowing climate change, and ensuring indigenous peoples have land rights is
By: Brittany Patterson
Date: 21 June 2016
Source: Scientific American
An effort in Ecuador might point the way to a more sustainable future for the rainforest and people
In the lush green rainforest of the Ecuadorean Amazon, members of the Kichwa indigenous group gather well before
Date: 16 December
Source: The Hindu
“If the government genuinely wants to do good by us, all it needs to do is to give us our constitutional rights over our jal-jangal-zameen (water-forest-land) as per the FRA.”
By: Magdalena Mis
Date: 19 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Agriculture is the biggest driver of deforestation globally fuelled by a growing demand for food, yet it is possible to feed the world without cutting forests, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on
By: Gaurav Madan
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Motherboard
Depending on the season, the journey to Rivercess County requires either bumping along dirt paths or navigating endless stretches of mud. In the heart of Liberia the dense tropical forests, some of the last intact in West Africa, are
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Forest fires raging in northeast Brazil are forcing indigenous people out of their traditional territories and threatening uncontacted tribes, an indigenous leader said