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  • Local indigenous people get more land in a DRC community forest
  • Smallholders are not the weak link in forest protection (commentary)
  • In Sumatra, social forestry links conservation with livelihoods

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Local indigenous people get more land in a DRC community forest

Tshopo province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo granted 31 community forest land titles to farmers in May, bringing a total of more than a million hectares of forest in Tsh...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Smallholders are not the weak link in forest protection (commentary)

In general, plantation companies view local communities and smallholders as obstacles to expanding operations and to securing social licenses. In deforestation-free supply chains,...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

In Sumatra, social forestry links conservation with livelihoods

TANGGAMUS, Indonesia — When Sri Atmiatun arrived in the hills of the Batutegi region in southern Sumatra’s Lampung province in 2017, the coffee trees were already there, overgrown...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Descendants of people pushed out for DRC national park lead forest conservation efforts

BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo — In the lush forests of North Kivu, Gangala Yafali Mangusa Jr. leads a forest patrol with members of his community. Together, they monitor hu...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

New study suggests Ethiopia’s protected areas may be impacting local wellbeing

A new study published in the journal Nature shows that Ethiopia’s protected areas successfully slowed deforestation, limited agricultural expansion and helped maintain grasslands....

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Communities say sacred groves are shrinking in India’s eastern ghats

Sacred groves in the Indian state of Odisha continue to be protected now, as they have for hundreds of years because of cultural and spiritual values associated with them, a recent...

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com /1 month ago

Adivasis demand halt to tiger safari push, evictions in south India forests

Indigenous communities in Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu are protesting wildlife tourism and tiger reserve expansion. They accuse authorities and conservation groups of commerci...

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globalissues.org /1 month ago

Papua New Guinea Bets on Indigenous Communities to Protect 700,000 Hectares of Highlands

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, June 11 (IPS) - The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved USD 6.4 million for a new conservation initiative in Papua New Guinea that seeks to prote...

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news.mongabay.com /3 weeks ago

Conservation efforts by families displaced for national park sees success in DRC

Descendants of families forcibly displaced during the creation of Maiko National Park in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo back in the 1970s are now leading a ne...

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wildlife.org /1 month ago

Indigenous lands outperform government protected areas

Despite shortfalls in funding, studies show these areas are better at managing biodiversity and carbon storage The post Indigenous lands outperform government protected areas appea...

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news.mongabay.com /2 weeks ago

Amazon floodplains cocoa offers a climate-resilient and sustainable chocolate

A river community in Pará uses ancestral secrets to beat the climate crisis one chocolate bean at a time.

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

In India’s Nagaland, communities turn to Indigenous law to protect pangolins

To protect pangolins in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, conservationists are turning to community-driven customary laws, reports contributor Kasturi Das for Mongabay Ind...

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news.mongabay.com /1 week ago

A fraction of promised climate money reaches Amazon communities: Interview with Latimpacto’s leaders

The Amazon is the largest rainforest on Earth, with many funders making financial commitments to conserve this crucial ecosystem. Yet, when the declarations are traced to the groun...

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koreatimes.co.kr /3 weeks ago

How to conserve tropical forests

STANFORD — Six months after last year’s United Nations Climate Conference (COP30), the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) has gone from being a headline-grabbing promise to a...

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forestsnews.org /1 month ago

From science-based evidence to action

Consider the following research topics: What does it take to protect both crops and livelihoods from human-wildlife conflict in Gabon? Which tree species offer the best chances for...

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thehindu.com /3 weeks ago

Dongria Kondh of Niyamgiri: Where forests, food and faith shape daily life

An intimate glimpse into the lives of the Dongria Kondh, one of India’s Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups, in Odisha’s Niyamgiri hills

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

In Peru and Brazil, extractivism threatens Indigenous people in isolation: Report

Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation and Initial Contact (PIACI) in the Yavarí-Tapiche Territorial Corridor, one of the largest contiguous, intact forests in the Amazon and ho...

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news.mongabay.com /1 month ago

Indigenous communities in eastern Indonesia revive systems for marine protection

Across the small islands of eastern Indonesia that lie within the Wallacea region, one of the world’s richest marine biodiversity regions, coastal communities are reviving ancient...

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forestsnews.org /1 month ago

World’s forests in a race against time, warns UN global forest report

The world is losing its forests faster than it can save them, with severe consequences for the climate, biodiversity and over one billion people who depend on forests for their liv...

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news.mongabay.com /1 week ago

Roads, loggers close in on an unprotected refuge for isolated Kakataibo

An unprotected area in Peru’s Amazon, where Indigenous people live in voluntary isolation, sits in a growing sea of forestry concessions, illegal roads, illegal loggers and drug tr...

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news.mongabay.com /4 weeks ago

Community-led initiatives safeguard marbled cats in northeast India

In India’s northeast, local communities are leading the charge for the protection of the marbled cat, one of Asia’s most poorly studied small wild cat species, reports contributor...

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news.mongabay.com /3 weeks ago

Indigenous people in Cambodia claim they’re blocked from sacred sites

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia — Ruos Lim knows what is at stake as he sets off with 10 men to patrol the Chom Penh forest. Lim is part of the Kuy people who have relied on the forests in...

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globalissues.org /1 month ago

Brazil’s Indigenous Communities Receive $9M in GEF Funding to Protect Lands, Traditions Under Threat

BELÉM, Brazil, May 21 (IPS) - On Brazil’s northeastern coast, the Indigenous community, Tremembé da Barra do Mundaú, lives on a preserved stretch of land shaped by mangroves, dune...

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thehindu.com /2 weeks ago

Athirappilly charts biodiversity-led path to sustainable development

People’s Biodiversity Register documents over 1,800 species of flora and fauna as panchayat seeks to link conservation with community livelihoods through Access and Benefit Sharing

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timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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wildlife.org

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koreatimes.co.kr

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