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Indigenous Leaders Targeted in Battle to Protect Forests
2014-04-10 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies. Indigenous representatives and environmental activists from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas met over the weekend here to commemorate those leading community fights against extractive industries. The conference, called Chico Vive, honoured Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber-tapper killed in 1988 for fighting to save the Amazon."Right now in our territory...
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Arctic Indigenous Knowledge Gains Strength in Latest IPCC Climate Report
2014-04-03 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Pulling back the curtains to my window this morning, overlooking the small arctic town of Kautokeino in northern Norway, the landscape looks charmingly picturesque. Colorful wooden houses are tucked under a thick layer of snow, a white tundra plateau extends off into the horizon. Daylight, now making an appearance in this part of the world for more than 15 hours of the day, already broke several hours ago. The sky sheds the last strands of dawn`s orange and purple hues. But this year was a bad...
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Australia: Great Barrier Reef and Indigenous heritage laws face 'one-stop shop' threat
2014-03-28 09:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The government may delegate oversight for the dumping of material in the Great Barrier Reef marine park and potentially bypass Indigenous heritage laws in order to speed up environmental approvals. In a submission to a parliamentary inquiry into green tape, the Department of the Environment said it was looking at current legislation that may complicate plans to create one-stop shops for approvals. The government is in the process of delegating environmental approvals to the states and territories...
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Indigenous people witness climate change in the Congo Rainforest
2014-03-20 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indigenous communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are observing climate change even though they have no knowledge of the science, according to a unique collaboration between the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and local communities. The environmental changes witnessed by the locals in the Congo Rainforest include increased temperature, less rainfall and alterations to the seasons, much as expected under global climate change. "Indigenous peoples in the Congo Basin rainforests face...
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Peru: Gas company to drill in Manu National Park buffer zone, imperiling indigenous people
2014-02-04 13:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Peruvian government has approved plans for gas company Pluspetrol to move deeper into a supposedly protected reserve for indigenous peoples and the buffer zone of the Manu National Park in the Amazon rainforest. The approval follows the government rescinding a highly critical report on the potential impacts of the operations by the Culture Ministry (MINCU), the resignation of the Culture Minister and other Ministry personnel, and repeated criticism from Peruvian and international civil society....
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