Global heating is contributing to forest fires, and those fires are stoking further heating: a deadly cycle. What can we learn from India's forest survey?
… | 11th September 2020 | News Conservation Forests Forest Fire Deforestation India International Forest fire in Chir Pine forests near Chitai, Almora District, … Each year millions of hectares of the world's forests are lost by fire, resulting in …
A new paradigm of forest conservation is gaining ground, writes Isaac Rojas: 'financialising' them and the climate and ecological services they provide to global investors. But this is a false solution - and one that excludes the local and indigenous forest communities who can truly be relied upon to sustain their sylvan heritage.
… International | 2nd November 2015 Comment Forests Commons Finance Indigenous Peoples … financialisation of nature . In the case of forests, this means turning them into … that there is no evidence that finacialising forests is a remotely effective strategy for …
India's neoliberal government is attempting the mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for corporate exploitation with mines, dams and plantations, writes Pushpa Achanta. But tribal communities are rising up to resist the takeover, which is not only morally reprehensible but violates India's own laws and international human rights obligations.
… India's Indigenous Peoples organise to protect forests, waters and commons Pushpa Achanta … November 2015 News India Indigenous Peoples Forests Water Energy Law Human Rights Mining … mass seizure of indigenous lands, commons and forests in order to hand them over for …
Financed by the World Bank, the Kenya Forest Service has intensified its illegal campaign of evictions, arson, beatings and arrests of the Sengwer forest people of the Embobut forest, Dean Puckett reports from the Cherangani Hills. And behind the violence lies the lure of hard cash - from the prospect of selling the forest's carbon to international financiers.
… Puckett REDD Monitor | 7th December 2014 News Forests Indigenous Peoples Law Climate Change … a financial value for the carbon stored in forests, offering incentives for developing …
The plight of Kenya's Sengwer people shows that carbon offsets generated by 'sustainable' forest management are empowering a corporate recolonisation of the South backed by the World Bank against its own guidelines, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Indigenous forest peoples are at risk of genocide while corporations let rip.
… | 20th August 2014 News Indigenous Peoples Forests Climate Change Carbon Finance … addition to the indigenous communities, the forests are also inhabited by many thousands … conservation programme, "the forests of Mt Elgon are not being sustainably …
The World Bank's 'Tropical Forest Action Plan' was an abject failure, writes Chris Lang. Now the same mistakes are being repeated under a new acronym. TFAP is out, REDD is in - but it's still all about corporate control of forests, and blaming deforestation on its victims.
… REDD - destroy the forests, seize the profits, blame the victims Chris Lang | 7th August 2014 Comment Forests Development Finance Corporations … but it's still all about corporate control of forests, and blaming deforestation on its …
Conservationists search for Rufous-necked Hornbills in West Bengal, through rich forests threatened by unrest and development.
… Hornbills in West Bengal, through rich forests threatened by unrest and development. … some of the best primary sub-tropical montane forests that we’d ever seen, and met some of … in north-east India, Bhutan and the adjoining forests of western Myanmar. These long-lived, …
Who are the best guardians of forests and other wild places? Governments? Conservation NGOs? Corporations? No, writes Prakash Kashwan, it's the indigenous peoples who have lived in harmony with their environment for millennia. But to be able do so, they must first be accorded rights to their historic lands and resources, both in law and in practice. Among the countries leading the way, Mexico. Among the laggards, Kenya and India.
… To conserve tropical forests and wildlife, protect the rights of … 2017 Comment Indigenous Peoples Conservation Forests Mexico Kenya India Books … Who are the best guardians of forests and other wild places? Governments? …
Global outcry as India’s Supreme Court threatens to evict over a million vulnerable people from forest under the guise of protecting wildlife.
… but also hurt the global struggle to save forests and mitigate climate change. These … is helping neither tigers nor India’s forests. Forest guardians The Nature … sustainable stewardship that India still has forests worth conserving. "To truly protect …
The Gond tribe of Hasdeo Arand, the largest and oldest stretch of forest land in central India, is on the verge of losing its home in the face of coal mining.
… of June, women and children venture into the forests to get their hands on this local … cutter machines, cutting down his tribes own forests: “I used to feel horrible, the …
Villages in Hasdeo Aranya of Chhattisgarh, India, oppose illegal land acquisition and the allotment of coal blocks without consent.
… Hasdeo Aranya protests to save the forests Let India Breathe | 25th October 2019 … Minister for the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) Shri Jairam Ramesh granted …
The eviction of Kenya's Sengwer forest people in a World Bank financed project was a failure of the Bank's duty to protect indigenous people, according to an internal report. The Bank's directors are to decide on how to respond today - but if they follow their own management's advice, the evictions will continue.
… News Kenya Finance Indigenous Peoples Africa Forests sengwer-fires-cut.jpg The eviction of … ancestral communities leaves the indigenous forests open to exploitation and destruction; … conservation practices, protects their forests" , said the Forest Peoples Programme. …
While the world gears up for Jungle Book fever, something sinister is afoot in the forests of India, writes Tom Linton. No, not Shere Khan, but zealous officials illegally evicting indigenous communities from their ancestral forests in the name of 'conservation' - and to make way for tiger tourism. And it's happening across India putting millions of people under threat.
… Indigenous Peoples India Natural World Tigers Forests si-mowgli-poster-cut.jpg While the … fever, something sinister is afoot in the forests of India, writes Tom Linton. No, not … indigenous communities from their ancestral forests in the name of 'conservation' - and to …
A 7-year old boy has been shot by park guards in Kaziranga national park, India, visited in April by Prince William and Kate, which operates a strict 'shoot first' policy. The incident highlights the government's wider efforts to evict tribal peoples from their forests in the name of conservation.
… efforts to evict tribal peoples from their forests in the name of conservation. A seven … the real criminals! Former Environment and Forests minister Prakash Javadeka from … peoples' existing rights to live in their forests, and would have led to more tribes …
Fragmentation is one of the biggest threats that our wild habitats face today. But new research can help mitigate its effects and revive degraded landscapes.
… Sartaj Ghuman | 9th September 2020 | News Forests India Thought Leaders Research … is surrounded by relatively undisturbed forests of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, … Tiger Reserve and Vazhachal Reserved Forests. Habitats The authors chose 131 trees …
A tribal community within India's Similipal tiger reserve is facing eviction after forest department officials tricked and coerced villagers into signing a document in which they promised to leave. Complaints to the state's Human Rights Commission have been ignored.
… October 2014 News India Indigenous Peoples Forests royal-bengal-tiger-cut.jpg A tribal … their right to live in and from the forests, and to manage and protect them. But … Director Stephen Corry said: "Many of the forests where tigers survive in India have …
The lockdown from one pandemic is being used in India to pave the way for the next, with a controversial plan to clear extremely valuable forests.
… plan to clear extremely valuable forests. The Dibang valley is very remote, … broad-leaved forest and subtropical rain forests in an area of more than 1,160 … January 2017, the Ministry for Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) Expert …
India’s Dongria Kondh tribe have rejected plans by mining giant Vedanta Resources for an open-pit bauxite mine in their sacred Niyamgiri Hills. Although the decision is not yet final, the case has been hailed as an unprecedented triumph for tribal rights ...
Students, workers and civil rights activists gathered in their hundreds today in Delhi to protest at the mining company Vedanta, and the Indian government's support of highly destructive mining projects in forests and on indigenous peoples' lands.
… 2014 News Mining India Indigenous Peoples Forests Pollution Corporations … of highly destructive mining projects in forests and on indigenous peoples' lands. … of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests investigated the bauxite mining …
A map developed by the Autonomous University of Barcelona’s EJAtlas unveils the high-level of social injustice that communities are facing in many of India’s protected areas.
… followed such policies and turned many of its forests into PAs in the name of conservation. … of the local people inhabiting the protected forests. For many local communities, the land … manage the forest resources including within forests protected area, and grants democratic …
The Rampal coal power plant in Bangladesh, near the world's greatest mangrove forest, is a deeply misconceived project that must be abandoned, writes Johan Frijns in this Open Letter to the Exim Bank of India - which is planning to finance its construction. It would severely damage the precious local environment and wildlife, while adding to global climate change and sea level rise.
Exim Bank of India - stop support for the Rampal Coal Power plant! Johan Frijns Banktrack | 26th May 2016 Comment Climate Change Fossil Fuels Coal Bangladesh India Natural World Water Oceans …
Talking with hunters in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh.
… for every two square kilometres for community forests in Eastern Arunachal Pradesh – to say … “But these mountains have a world full of forests on them, and we hunt only on our own … all. That is your way of life; these are your forests; who are we outsiders to tell you how …
Indigenous forest dwellers in India's iconic Kanha Tiger Reserve have suffered another round of illegal forced evictions at the hands of the country's Tiger Conservation Authority - a move that is threatening the future of the tigers themselves.
… who face a desperate future without their forests . Across India, many more face a … to stay in, live from, and protect their forests as enshrined in both Indian and …