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Large-scale opposition among Borneo villagers to deforestation
2013-09-10 07:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Nearly two-thirds of villagers surveyed across rainforests in Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo are against large-scale deforestation due to the adverse impacts on livelihoods and the environment, finds a comprehensive new study across 185 communities. The research, conducted over a one-year period by an international team of scientists, is published in this week's issue of the journal PLOS ONE. The study found that people who live near forests place the greatest value on the benefits they afford,...
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United Kingdom: Villagers' fracking revolt leads to arrests
2013-07-26 22:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: The protest against plans by the fracking company Cuadrilla to explore for oil and gas at a site just outside the sleepy village of Balcombe, East Sussex, began on Thursday. Local people, including mothers and children, set up gazebos and bunting by the roadside. Tea and cakes were handed out and there was even a singalong. Activists included Natalie Hynde, the daughter of Chrissie Hynde and Ray Davies of The Kinks. But the mood turned at midday yesterday as a hard core of activists refused...
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Fiji: Villagers learn about climate change
2013-07-15 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fiji Times: WOMEN of Naisaumua Village in Tailevu have learnt how to be resilient towards climate change during an empowerment workshop that was held in the village last week. Climate change has been a topic of discussion for many villages in the country, particularly those that are feeling its impact. Sainimilika Vuataki said the four-day empowerment workshop was educational as women learnt about the impact of climate change on their lives. Mrs Vuataki said most of the time women in the village did...
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Pakistan: With climate change, villagers become strangers in their own land
2013-05-25 22:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Herald Tribune: When Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai first said that a time would come when the fishing community would dwell along the mighty Indus River but still die of hunger, it was merely a couplet. Today fishermen living in one of the hundreds of villages in the Indus Delta have truly understood what the great saint meant to say. Nearly three hundred families living in Kharo Chan village - which in Sindhi language means bitter jetty -- have bitter memories to share. Allah Din, a farmer, said, There was...
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Fiji's villagers move uphill to escape global warming's rising seas
2013-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Fiji's picturesque Natewa Bay must be a hard place to leave, and for none more so than the villagers of Vunidogoloa, who are preparing to abandon their ancestral home in the face of the rising sea. But they have little choice: big waves now overtop a once-protective sea wall, their salt-polluted vegetation is dying. They are to move as a community a mile inland, and uphill, to a new site on the northern island of Vanua Levu. Devout Methodists, they have named Kenani, Fijian for Canaan the promised...
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