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Is all of the criticism REDD receives justified?

'Gold' standard for REDD forest conservation project in Colombia's Choco’

Themes: Conservation, Policy, Indigenous people, Poverty, Human rights, REDD

"As families returned to their traditional lands after nearly a decade of displacement, the prospect of new conflict between armed land grabbers and communities loomed."

More… Feb 17, 2012

Traditional Communities And No-Take Protected Areas In Brazil

Conflicts And Rights

Themes: Conservation, Indigenous people, Human rights, Parks, Poverty, Policy

The study shows that the most of the cases involving conflicts protected areas (around 44.3%) are located in the Atlantic Forest, 30.3% in coastal areas,12.6% in the Amazonian region, 6.3% in the Caatinga ( Northeast Brazil) and 5.0% in the Cerrado (Savanah) and 1.2% in Pantanal.

More… Feb 15, 2012

Tenure and Indigenous Peoples

The Importance Of Self-Determination, Territory, And Rights To Land And Other Natural Resources Property

Themes: Indigenous people, Policy, Conservation, Human rights, CBD, UNDRIP, REDD

In Africa, state-led conservation has a history of violating due process rights of local occupants, forced resettlements, destruction of property and farms, and even torture and extrajudicial killings. Estimates have placed the global number of conservation refugees at 130 million

More… Aug 20, 2011

Statutory Recognition Of Customary Land Rights In Africa

An Investigation Into Best Practices For Law Making And Implementation

Themes: Policy, Conservation, Human rights

This study examines the statutory recognition of customary land tenure in Botswana, Mozambique and Tanzania, which were chosen as case studies because of the diverse approaches to the issue they represent.

More… May 09, 2011

The International Conference on Global Land Grabbing

Held in Brighton, UK on the 6-8th April 2011

Themes: Policy, Conservation, Human rights, Parks, Indigenous people, Poverty, REDD

This conference brought together an impressive array of analysis and experiences of land being lost to institutional economic pressures. A good number of the cases presented are linked to conservation – summaries of some examples below.

More… May 02, 2011

Protected Areas and Migration

The current edition of Conservation and Society has a special section on Protected Areas and Migration. A summary of three of them are presented here with their links.

Themes: Conservation, Policy, Human rights, Parks, Indigenous people, Poverty

Conservation and Society is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary open access journal dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of conservation.

More… Apr 09, 2011

IUCN to review and advance implementation of the ‘new conservation paradigm’

Press Release: International Union for the Conservation of Nature to review and advance implementation of the ‘new conservation paradigm’, focusing on rights of indigenous peoples.

Themes: Conservation, Policy, CBD

Indigenous peoples’ representatives met with Chairs of Commissions of (IUCN) during the Sharing Power conference, in Whakatane, New Zealand, on January 13th, 2011.

More… Feb 18, 2011

African Union backs Mauritius against UK in dispute over Chagos.

16th Ordinary Session held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 30 to 31 January 2011.

Themes: Policy, Human rights

"Decides to support fully the action of the Government of the Republic of Mauritius at the United Nations General Assembly with a view to enabling Mauritius to exercise its sovereignty over the Archipelago."

More… Feb 11, 2011