Indigenous people

Issue date:

June, 2011

Draft Framework for Sharing Approaches for Better Multi-stakeholder Participation Practices

Many countries are beginning to engage stakeholders in domestic REDD+ decision-making processes, often with support from bilateral, multilateral and non-governmental initiatives.

Issue date:

16 June 2011

Understanding forest-dependency for REDD+

Issue date:

31 May 2011

Community forestry plan unveiled

The Forestry Administration yesterday launched a new US$3.8 million project to conserve forests in four provinces in the Cardamom region through sustainable community forestry.

Kampong Speu, Kampong Chhnang, Pursat and Battambang provinces have been targeted because they contain forests with “globally significant biodiversity … and at the same time act as major carbon reserves”, yet face threats from logging and land concessions, according to an official summary of the project plan.

Issue date:

June 21, 2011

FAO steps up for Small loggers Association

Ten forested communities, among them Muritaro, Aranaputa, and Bethany, yesterday signed the support US$50,000 agreement between the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the Guyana Forestry Commission and the Forestry Training Centre Incorporated under the National Forest Programme Facility.
The three-year project, “Capacity Building of Small Loggers’ Associations” is not only geared at forest resources but provide training for villagers to generate income in alternative ventures such as craft and poultry.

Issue date:

15 June 2011

Putting people at the centre of forest law-making is essential

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June 12, 2011

Environment versus economy: local communities find economic benefits from living next to conservation areas

Issue date:

May 30th, 2011

Wet’suwet’en win harvesting injunction against Canfor in B.C.

The British Columbia Supreme Court has granted an injunction which restrains Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (“Canfor”) from engaging in timber harvesting activities within a culturally vital portion of Ilk K’il Bin Territory known as Redtop.

Issue date:

May 10, 2011

REDD Rag to Indigenous Forest Dwellers

MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2011 (IPS) - The implementation of a forestry programme against climate change in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas poses a threat to indigenous people in the state, non-governmental organisations warn.

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April 17, 2011

Climate-watchers alarmed over forest degradation proposals

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April 8, 2011

Struggling Northern forest communities need voice on tenure

April 8 /CNW/ - "By shutting out the North, the Ontario government has just put another nail in the coffin of our province's once-thriving forest sector," says the leader of Ontario's largest forestry union.

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Indigenous people

Draft Framework for Sharing Approaches for Better Multi-stakeholder Participation Practices

Understanding forest-dependency for REDD+

Community forestry plan unveiled

FAO steps up for Small loggers Association

Putting people at the centre of forest law-making is essential

Environment versus economy: local communities find economic benefits from living next to conservation areas

Wet’suwet’en win harvesting injunction against Canfor in B.C.

REDD Rag to Indigenous Forest Dwellers

Climate-watchers alarmed over forest degradation proposals

Struggling Northern forest communities need voice on tenure

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Indigenous people

Draft Framework for Sharing Approaches for Better Multi-stakeholder Participation Practices

Understanding forest-dependency for REDD+

Community forestry plan unveiled

FAO steps up for Small loggers Association

Putting people at the centre of forest law-making is essential

Environment versus economy: local communities find economic benefits from living next to conservation areas

Wet’suwet’en win harvesting injunction against Canfor in B.C.

REDD Rag to Indigenous Forest Dwellers

Climate-watchers alarmed over forest degradation proposals

Struggling Northern forest communities need voice on tenure

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