We want to go home. Don’t call it the forest," 74-year-old Francis arap Taribo, a member of the indigenous Ogiek community said, referring to the Mau Forest Complex, a critical water tower that is a bone
CONQUISTA DO OESTE, BRAZIL - The savannah scrubland where Chief Joao Ponce once hunted deer and wild boar in Brazil has given way to neat rows of soy and corn that a tractor sprays with herbicide. In the
New research shows that paying communities in Mexico to conserve and manage their jointly-owned property doesn't just benefit the environment—it strengthens social relationships and a sense of community
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) chairperson Nand Kumar Sai on Monday said encroachments by non-tribals on land reserved for indigenous people in Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District
The country’s attempts to protect its forests have been undermining the rights of indigenous people living on the land. Evans Kemore, a human rights activist based in Nakuru, says: “We have been evicted
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said his government has distributed 10 crore LPG connections in four years, including four crore free to poor women of which 45 per cent beneficiaries have been Dalits
<p>Order of the Delhi High Court in the matter of M/S Metro Waste Handling Vs Delhi Jal Board dated 29/05/2018.</p> <p>The issue relates to the conditions in the tender issued by the Delhi Jal Board inviting
The lawyer appearing for MMRC told court last week that “notice was issued to the petitioners in May 2017, thereafter, the tenements were demolished and alternate accommodation is also provided to them.”
It was a letter of unity and solidarity. “Our forest, our rivers, our land are sacred to us,” wrote the Ka’apor tribe, from Maranhão in north-eastern Brazil, to the Munduruku, who live hundreds of miles
WEST POKOT, Kenya — The Cherangani people, an indigenous community in Kenya’s Rift Valley, have always called the Cherangani Hills Forest their ancestral home. Also known locally as the Sengwer, they
