Sixty years after they were forcibly removed to Gugulethu by the apartheid regime in terms of the Group Areas Act some families are returning to Simon’s Town, while others haave accepted compensation.
In December, Botswana’s Court of Appeal denied a Bushmen family the right to bury their elder, Pitseng Gaoberekwe, on his ancestral land in the Kalahari Desert, from which the community has been evicted to make way for the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR). Gaoberekwe died in December 2021 but remains unburied after the Botswana government denied the family access to the diamond-rich land.
The government of Tanzania is further escalating the pressure on the Maasai to forcve them out of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area by seizing their cattle. Once captured, the cattle are auctioned off and exported from the area, unless the owners manage to get it back by paying a ransom to the authorities.
Farmers say oil giant’s tree-planting scheme has barred them from their fields and threatens livelihoods
An Orang Asli Seletar tribe in Johor, whose ancestral land was taken and sold to developers, will be relocated on new land to be gazetted for their settlement.
Los desalojos de indígenas y población rural están a la orden del día en el país donde los herederos de la dictadura aún conservan intactas sus tierras robadas
From 7-19 December, officials from across the world are meeting in Montreal for COP15, the Convention on Biological Diversity. At the heart of their plans to save the planet lies the 30% initiative, a commitment to create even more national parks and animal reserves - a mainstream approach relying on "Fortress Conservation".
Deputy Minister of Lands, Deus Gumba .“There has been an outcry that foreigners are taking over our land. The current land law has been amended with an aim of protecting the land from foreign citizens’ ownership”.
The Indonesian government has for the first time relinquished state forest into the custody of Indigenous communities in the eastern region of Papua
Over the last four decades, Nepal’s communities have carried out an extraordinary reforestation campaign. And the results are clearly visible.
In November 2018, leaders from nine communities from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) whose land rights and livelihood were affected by the PHC-Feronia large-scale palm oil plantation took a historic step and filed a complaint. They were the first communities to request mediation and to date their issues remain unresolved.