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Ecuador indigenous leader found dead days before Lima protest
2014-12-07 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The body of an indigenous leader who was opposed to a major mining project in Ecuador has been found bound and buried, days before he planned to take his campaign to climate talks in Lima. The killing highlights the violence and harassment facing environmental activists in Ecuador, following the confiscation earlier this week of a bus carrying climate campaigners who planned to denounce president Rafael Correa at the United Nations conference. The victim, José Isidro Tendetza Antún, a former vice-president...
How an indigenous community in Ecuador stood up big oil and won
2014-12-05 18:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Standing before a packed audience of 2,000 spectators, Patricia Gualinga Montalvo calmly addressed the crowd, sharing the story of her people. The Sarayaku, a Kichwa indigenous people numbering 1,200 from the Ecuadorian Amazon, won a historic court case in 2012. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that the government of Ecuador must publicly apologize, consult with, and recompense the Sarayaku for allowing oil exploration by Argentine Compaia General de Combustibles on their territory...
Amazon indigenous land loss threatens climate, says study
2014-12-04 04:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Scientists say destroying indigenous areas of the Amazon rainforest will have an irreversible impact on the atmosphere of the planet. A new study said indigenous lands were "protected natural areas" accounting for 55% of the carbon stored in the Amazon basin. It said this land was at risk because governments had failed to recognise or enforce indigenous land rights. The report was released on the first day of UN climate talks in Peru. The study said nearly 20% of the Amazon forests are...
Queensland Indigenous group appeals to UN over mining traditional land
2014-12-04 03:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Mithaka people of south-west Queensland have appealed to the United Nations to investigate the state government for opening up their traditional land to mining. They accuse the Newman government of violating international law by failing to consult them over the removal of wild rivers protection laws in favour of shale oil exploration. A submission to the UN special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples on Thursday also says the dangers posed by chemical fracking threaten the...
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Ignoring indigenous rights Amazon fuels global warming study
2014-12-03 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: More than half the carbon in the Amazon region could be released into the atmosphere unless indigenous land rights are protected, a new study said on Tuesday, as a UN climate conference got under way in Peru. Indigenous territories and protected natural areas across nine South American countries account for more than half the carbon stored in the Amazon, the study published in the journal Carbon Management reported. If this land is exploited for logging, mining or commercial farming, much of...
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