Forest People

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• Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A new handbook lays out the methodology for cultural mapping, providing indigenous groups with a powerful tool for defending their land and culture, while enabling them to benefit from some 21st century advancements. Cultural mapping may also facilitate indigenous efforts to win recognition and compensation under a ...
  3 hours ago

• A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  As world leaders meet to thrash out the next incarnation of the Kyoto climate agreement, the world waits with baited breath to see how greenhouse gas emissions from forests might be included. Despite the high powered nature of these important global decisions, the success of REDD will ultimately be decided by humble ...
  2 days ago

• Efforts to slow climate change may put indigenous people at risk

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Efforts to slow climate change are putting indigenous people at risk, warns a new report published by Survival International, an indigenous rights group.
  5 days ago

• "Responsible" palm oil producers pledge not to develop endangered Sumatra rainforest

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an initiative developing criteria to improve the environmental performance of palm oil, agreed to declare the Bukit Tigapuluh Ecosystem in Sumatra a high conservation value area. The decision, voted on by RSPO General Assembly members at the groups annual ...
  2 weeks ago

• How rainforest shamans treat disease

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive use of medicinal plants by indigenous shamans in places around the world, including the Amazon. But few have reported on the actual process by which traditional healers diagnose and treat disease. A new ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google partners with Amazon tribe

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The story of an indigenous Amazon tribe that has embraced technology in its fight to protect its homeland and culture is now highlighted as a layer in Google Earth.
  4 weeks ago

• Crisis averted for now, Peruvian natives will meet with Hunt Oil

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Indigenous groups in a dispute with Hunt Oil, over the company performing seismic tests their land, have scheduled a meeting with the Texas based oil corporation, according to Reuters.
  4 weeks ago

• Will Ecuadors plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Ecuadors Yasuni National Park is full of wealth: it is one of the richest places on earth in terms of biodiversity; it is home to the indigenous Waorani people, as well as several uncontacted tribes; and the parks forest and soil provides a massive carbon sink. However, Yasuni National Park also sits on wealth of a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with "their lives"

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Indigenous natives in the Amazon are headed to the town of Salvacion in Peru with a plan to forcibly remove the Texas-based Hunt Oil company from their land as early as today. Peruvian police forces, numbering in the hundreds, are said to be waiting in the town. The crisis has risen over an area known as Lot 76, or ...
  5 weeks ago

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