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Issue date: 
March 10 2012

Tension as 15,000 ignore eviction notice

Tension over land ownership is brewing in Ssemabable District as at least 15,300 people, said to be encroachers in the area, continue to ignore an eviction order by the police and district leaders.

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March 12th, 2012

British Columbia makes regulatory change allowing the removal of private land from woodlot licences

British Columbia has made an amendment to section 47.1 of their Forest Act that will allow private land to be removed from a woodlot.

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Pakistan has signed a MoU with UK based company on REDD+

Anonymous - Di, 27/03/2012 - 20:51

One can read at various news messages (ONLINE International News Network, Pakistan Today) about the signing of a MoU between the Government of Pakistan and UK based Company Merlins Wood.

All of you might have read and heard about the first and most prominent rule for any REDD+ agreements: they should be based on FREE, PRIOR & INFORMED CONSENT.

Issue date: 
7 February 2012

A big day for our Wapichan people

The 7th February 2012 is a very important date for the communities of the Wapichan people of the South Rupununi  in Guyana: on this date, we will present to the national and international communities a m

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1/30/2012

USD 62 million to Nepal Government Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme

The Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme is the product of the first multistakeholder design process to be undertaken in Nepal’s forestry sector.

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January 20, 2012

Indigenous communities make a list of “do’s and don’ts” for forest conservation schemes

Indigenous and community groups have made a wish-list detailing how schemes that aim to reduce deforestation and forest degradation should work for those living in and amongst the forest.

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01 January 2012

REDD & Property Rights

No one knows for certain when nature first became a commodity, that is, when nature was first divided into discrete units that could be bought and sold. You could argue that it was when the fruits of harvest were first traded for other goods.

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December 2, 2011

What Will Save Our Forests?

In this article I wrote for Earth Island Journal earlier this year detailing the fatal flaws of the climate mitigation scheme known as REDD (for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and fo

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Issue date: 
11/30/2011

Amazonian indigenous peoples against REDD

Peruvian indigenous organizations along with the Forest Peoples Program, an international non-profit that defends the rights of native forest-dwelling peoples, said in a recent report that carbon emission reduction programs tied to the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD, a United Nations-led program, are hurting indigenous rights.

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November 25th, 2011

Coast Tsimshian Resources signs contract to sell logs to Chinese company

Coast Tsimshian Resources has signed a contract to sell 150,000 cubic metres of logs to Fujian Hijong Wood Industry Co. Ltd. of Putian, China.

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