Suriname celebrates International Indigenous Peoples’ day with a culinary festival In Suriname, South America, the International Day of Indigenous Peoples (9 August) is traditionally celebrated in…
Briefing: There’s a long, long way to go: the story of FPIC in Cameroon’s Ngoyla Wildlife Reserve WWF, the World Bank and the Government of Cameroon have hailed the Ngoyla Wildlife Reserve in…
Esta mañana en Bonn, Alemania, cinco defensores del medio ambiente y de los derechos humanos se reunieron en el escenario del Foro Mundial de Paisajes para compartir historias de las amenazas a las…
Statement on the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land from indigenous Peoples and local communities In a new report, the IPCC recognises for the first time that to save forests and fight…
Further clashes between eco-guards and Batwa reported on a daily basis in DRC Following recent deadly clashes between eco-guards and Batwa Pygmies in April 2019 that resulted in the death of two…
Les 23 et 24 juillet, sous le couvert de la forêt communautaire Nomedjo à Lomié, la plateforme Gbabandi s'est réunie pour sa deuxième Assemblée Générale. Gbabandi comprend actuellement huit…
On July 23 and 24, under the canopy of the Nomedjo community forest, the Gbabandi Platform came together for its second General Assembly. Gbabandi comprises eight indigenous organisations, and over…
Acting in response to statements from the Brazilian President, an estimated 20,000 illegal miners are reported to have invaded the lands of the indigenous Yanomami peoples in the Amazon basin.
The long-awaited European Commission Communication on deforestation opens the door for regulation of EU commodity supply chains, in order to protect and restore the world’s forests. On the downside,…
Annual Report 2018 Global news in 2018 made hard reading. Forest peoples who we support faced intimidation and murder. Political instability and populist leaders put increasing pressure on land…
