India – “The State of the Forest Rights Act: Undoing of historical injustice withered”
Press Release from the The Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network claiming that the Forest Rights Act has not been properly implemented with 54% of claims made under it having been rejected.
Themes: Indigenous people, Conservation, Human rights, Policy
"....The claims under the FRA are not being recognised in the protected areas such as National Parks and Wildlife sanctuaries...."
In many cases, more than one person/family has been granted title over the same plot of land
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May 07, 2012
India - The relocation conundrum
How does one ensure the fundamental non-negotiables of equity, justice and sustainability? What values do we want to uphold and what will be the process to make that happen?
Themes: Conservation, Human rights, Parks, Policy
"For a while it appeared that the relocation issue had gone onto the back burner because we were not hearing about it a lot. It never disappeared for sure, because it was central in many of the discussions around the declaration of Critical Tiger Habitats, Critical Wildlife Habitats and the Scheduled Tribes and Other....."
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Mar 27, 2012
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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Apr 09, 2011
