Posts tagged Indigenous lands
Uncontacted Amazon tribes endangered in Peru, Brazil -indigenous group

Reuters

December 8, 2021
Deep in the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest area containing isolated and uncontacted tribes is under increasing threat from illegal logging and gold mining, advancing coca plantations and drug trafficking violence, a new report warns.

An undetermined number of indigenous people that could number several thousand inhabit a vast swathe of forest twice the size of Ireland that overlaps the Brazil-Peru border.

Their longhouses in jungle clearings have been spotted from planes but encounters with outsiders or clashes with invaders are anecdotal.

In the most comprehensive study to date of the so-called Javari-Tapiche corridor, to be published on Thursday in Lima, a Peruvian indigenous organization says the world's largest number of uncontacted people are in danger.

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Amazon, Indigenous lands, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous rights, South AmericaMary PriceBrazil, Peru, South America, development, Indigenous lands, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous rights, Amazon
Indigenous peoples and local communities, key to achieving biodiversity goals

EurekAlert

May 21, 2021
An international study led by the ICTA-UAB states that recognizing indigenous peoples' and local communities' rights and agency is critical to addressing the current biodiversity crisis

Policies established by the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) could be ineffective if the rights and agency of indigenous peoples and local communities are not recognized and fully incorporated into biodiversity management. This is supported by an international study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and recently published in the journal Ambio.

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Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous lands, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous rights, CBDMary PriceIndigenous Peoples, Indigenous lands, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous rights, Convention on Biological Diversity, Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The Kayapó Indigenous People in Brazil are Fighting Hard to Protect the Amazon

One Green Planet

March 1, 2021
The government of Brazil is considering a bill that would open Indigenous territories to gold mining and mining by the oil and gas industries. This would threaten both the Amazon rainforest and the people that live there.

Over 6,000 Kayapó from 56 communities recently voiced their opposition to the bill: “We do not agree with individual statements made by Kayapó relatives in favor of gold mining,” their declaration reads. Although some leaders have succumbed to pressure to support the bill, the Kayapó people as a whole stand firmly against it.

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Indigenous lands, Indigenous Peoples, South America, AmazonMary PriceBrazil, Amazon, South America, Mining, Kayapo, Indigenous lands, Indigenous Peoples
2019 was the deadliest year ever for environmental activists, watchdog group says

Mongabay

July 29, 2020
2019 was the deadliest year on record for environmental activists, according to a new report by the advocacy watchdog Global Witness. In total, the group says that at least 212 people were killed across the world in retaliation for their defense of land and the environment, with those representing Indigenous communities bearing a disproportionate brunt of the violence.

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Indigenous Peoples, nature, environment, Indigenous landsGuest UserIndigenous Peoples, conservation, Indigenous lands, violence, nature