Local communities

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June 12, 2011

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

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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.

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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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5 April 2011

World Bank ignoring forest communities?

The World Bank has come under fire for its Inspection Panel’s decision not to investigate its forestry sector programme in Liberia, while new reports from civil society groups add to the backlog of criticism over the Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).

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March 9th, 2011

Pacheedaht First Nation to receive forest revenue returns

Pacheedaht First Nation is the 14th First Nation to sign a new type of agreement that sees a percentage of forestry revenue returned directly to the community, announced Forests, Mines and Lands Minister Pat Bell today.

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8 February 2011

RRI Dialogue Addresses Developments on REDD+

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January 5, 2011

Coffee Forest vs. Village Carbon Forest

Are thousands of citizens of Masurai Subdistrict, Merangin District guilty if they independently utilize area of HPH (forest concession) which has been abandoned since 15 years ago as public coffee plantations? Regulation and legislation ensure cultivation and utilization of forest areas by th

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January 10, 2011

Slow death by carbon credits

FORGET ANY spin. In the end, the recent UN gathering on climate change in Cancún repeated Copenhagen’s failure in 2009. Again, the world’s industrial economies refused to set new binding reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, despite dire warnings by scientists.

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Local communities

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

World Bank ignoring forest communities?

Pacheedaht First Nation to receive forest revenue returns

RRI Dialogue Addresses Developments on REDD+

Coffee Forest vs. Village Carbon Forest

Slow death by carbon credits

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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

World Bank ignoring forest communities?

Pacheedaht First Nation to receive forest revenue returns

RRI Dialogue Addresses Developments on REDD+

Coffee Forest vs. Village Carbon Forest

Slow death by carbon credits

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