Indigenous peoples of the Ucayali region have secured a victory against oil and gas extraction in Block 200. After long years of struggle against its imposition and in the face of a very poor consultation process with serious violations of Indigenous rights, they succeeded in getting CEPSA Peru to withdraw from the operation. The Indigenous Peoples will remain vigilant and will fight for the cancellation of the oil block.
Pueblos indígenas de la región de Ucayali aseguraron una victoria frente al proyecto extractivo del Lote 200, donde después de largos años de lucha a su imposición y frente a un proceso de consulta muy pobre y con graves violaciones a los derechos indígenas, lograron que la empresa CEPSA Perú decida retirarse de la operación. Los pueblos indígenas permanecerán vigilantes y lucharán por la anulación del Lote petrolero.
The indigenous organisations CODEPISAM and CEPKA participated in a hearing before the Civil Court of Lamas in the case of Lot 103, created without consultation on Kichwa territories. In defence of the lot: Perupetro and the Peruvian subsidiary of the Spanish oil company REPSOL.
Las organizaciones indígenas CODEPISAM y CEPKA participaron en una audiencia ante el Juzgado Civil de Lamas por el caso del Lote 103, creado sin consulta sobre territorios kichwa. En defensa del lote: Perupetro y la subsidiaria peruana de la petrolera española REPSOL.
Senior Asian Development Bank (ADB) officials today respond on the bank’s proposed financing of road projects which will cut through the last remaining intact forest in Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan).
The Kichwa community of Puerto Franco, Peru, announce this week that they are taking the Peruvian Government and the Cordillera Azul National Park to court. They are challenging the State’s refusal to title their traditional lands, the imposition of exclusionary conservation and profit-making from carbon credits sold without their consent in the San Martín region of the Peruvian Amazon.
La comunidad kichwa Puerto Franco anuncia que están demandando al Gobierno peruano y el Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul frente a la negativa del Estado de titular sus tierras tradicionales, la imposición de la conservación excluyente y la generación de ganancias de la venta de créditos de carbono sin su consentimiento en la región de San Martin en la Amazonía peruana.
North Kalimantan is the most recent province to be carved out of the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. The least populous province in Indonesia is home to a diverse mix of ethnic groups, including indigenous Dayak Lundayeh, Kenyah, Punan, Tidung and Agabag.
The Colombian government is adamant that it will resume aerial spraying with glyphosate, negatively impacting indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples without their free, prior and informed consent (FPIC).
El gobierno colombiano insiste en re activar la aspersión aérea con glifosato que afectaría pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes sin su consentimiento previo libre e informado.
Without immediate action we face catastrophic loss of nature and biodiversity and increasing risks of pandemics as a result, as showcased in a major report released by the UN Convention on Biological Diversity last week. A complementary report released at the same UN meeting, the Local Biodiversity Outlooks 2, shows the need for a step change in how we confront these crises.