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Indigenous communities demand forest rights, blame land grabs for failure to curb deforestation

25th Mar 2014
Indigenous and forest-dependent peoples from Asia, Africa and Latin America have called for increased recognition of customary land rights in order to curb deforestation and ensure the survival of their communities. (Diana Parker / Mongabay)

African govts give away continent’s natural heritage, acre by acre

21st Mar 2014
African governments are in the spotlight for their role in the continent’s land grabs which has seen millions of acres end up in the hands of private investors. This trend has been identified by some land experts and economists as a “dangerous” grab of the basis upon which the continent’s people depend for survival. (Mbaria / The East African)

Good news: Guarani return to their ancestral land as rancher leaves

21st Mar 2014
A Guarani community in Brazil has managed to return to a small part of its ancestral land, forcing out the rancher who had taken over their land and blockaded their houses. (Survival)

Indigenous group defends water, land against dam threat

16th Feb 2014
The Cora community refuses to accept the artificial reservoir in the San Pedro Mezquital River because it would inundate or endanger 18 sacred sites and would place conditions on their traditional cultural practices. (Agustin del Castillo / CIP Americas Program)

It’s slash and burn for Russia’s Indigenous

23rd Jan 2014
Russia’s indigenous people stand up for their land rights in a quarrel with oil companies and raise issues of environmental and economic justice. Could this move other Russians to rethink the real costs of a resource-based economy? (350.org / Global Voices)

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