Clear improvements can be seen in the final text, but much still remains to be done before future FLEGT licenced timber can guarantee that indigenous peoples’ rights are fully protected.
For the Wampis Nation in the Peruvian Amazon, protecting their territory and living well go hand in hand with reclaiming and strengthening their own ancestral knowledge, wisdom, practices and customs.
Para la Nación Wampís de la Amazonía peruana, defender el territorio y vivir bien van de la mano con recuperar y fortalecer el conocimiento, sabiduría, prácticas y costumbres ancestrales.
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Resguardo Indígena Colonial Cañamomo Lomaprieta.
Comunicado a la opinión pública.
Con indignación, repudio y dolor informamos y denunciamos ante el Gobierno Nacional e internacional y la opinión pública que:
“Indigenous peoples and local communities embody humanity’s creative intelligence and wisdom in our care and love for Mother Earth.
On 20 August 2018, Peru’s highest court, the Constitutional Tribunal (TC) ag
El 20 de agosto de 2018, el tribunal superior del Perú, el Tribunal Constitucional (TC), se comprometió a resolver la demanda
From the Arctic North, to the Pacific Island South, to the Tropical Forests of Latin America, Local Biodiversity Outlooks online highlights how indigenous peoples and local communities are rising to the challenge to counter the effects of some of the most pressin
"Currently, we, the indigenous people, traditional villagers and forest people, and the places where we are living are under pressure and face sustained injustice and social tension due to large-scale “development’ activities conducted by plantation and commercial logging companies."
Three interlinked environmental catastrophes are facing the world, and a fourth crisis highlights where the solution lies:
Lawyers representing the community from the Peruvian human rights organisation, the Institute of Legal Defence (IDL), have highlighted 4 groundbreaking aspects of the decision which could lead to major reforms affecting indigenous land rights and forest protection in the Peruvian Amazon.
A member of one of Cameroon’s Baka Communities in the Ngoyla Mintom area, talks about being driven out of his ancestral forests, and the issues his people face on a daily basis through lack of land rights and lack of access to food, medicine and education.
Un membre d'une des communautés baka du Cameroun dans la région de Ngoyla Mintom, parle d'être chassé de ses forêts ancestrales et des problèmes auxquels son peuple est confronté quotidiennement, à cause du manque de droits fonciers et du manque d'accès à la nourriture, médecine et éducation.
Un miembro de una de las comunidades Baka de la zona de Ngoyla Mintom de Camerún, habla de ser expulsado de su bosque ancestral y de los problemas a los que se enfrenta su pueblo a diario a por la falta de derechos territoriales y la falta de acceso a alimentos, medicinas y educación.
Communities in the Bajo Huallaga area of the Peruvian Amazon declared an “environmental and territorial emergency” on 16 September this year following serious and ongoing impacts on their natural resources, territories and inhabitants caused by land grabs and deforestation of their lands by loggers and palm oil companies.
Les communautés de la région de Bajo Huallaga dans l’Amazonie péruvienne ont déclaré « l’urgence environnementale et territoriale » le 16 septembre de cette année, suite aux effets graves et continus sur leurs ressources naturelles, territoires et habitants des accaparements de terres et de la déforestation de leurs terres par des entreprises exploitant le bois et le palmier à huile.
Comunidades en Bajo Huallaga, en la Amazonía peruana, han declarado una “emergencia ambiental y territorial” el 16 de septiembre de este año, con motivo de graves y reiterados impactos hacia sus recursos naturales, sus territorios y sus poblaciones debido al acaparamiento y deforestación de sus tierras por madereros y empresas de palma aceitera.
Urgent action is needed to halt the takeover of indigenous peoples’ lands for megaprojects in forested provinces like Kalimantan and Papua in Indonesia. The destruction of forests and rivers is undermining local indigenous livelihoods, and destroying ancestral lands. Between 40 and 70 million people in rural Indonesia depend on access to lands and resources, including water for drinking and sanitation, protected by customary laws.
