Forest Communities News Today

If this advertised Christmas time removal of CSR cash to the nation's poorest people in the name of a "poor financial situation" by this super-wealthy family company is true it deserves global opprobrium. If it is not true then Samling must act urgently to reassure the poor communities who have been sent this appalling Christmas kick in the teeth......

Ripping up clumps of pasture with the aid of a machete, Leon Acosta is doing his part to reclaim forest area invaded by illegal cattle farmers and others in the heart of Guatemala's protected Maya Biosphere Reserve. The Maya Biosphere Reserve, near the borders with Mexico and Belize, saw deforestation rise from 20 percent of its total area in 2000 to 33 percent in 2022 due to illegal logging, fires for land clearing and the planting of pasture for livestock.

Since Tuesday, thousands of additional hectares of vegetation have burned in Gironde, just three weeks after wildfires devastated the region in late July.

The revelation that Indigenous people and local communities (IPLCs) receive well below 1% of climate finance, despite reports stressing their role in biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation, is giving rise to multiple funding initiatives seeking to fill this gap. The latest among them is the Community Land Rights and Conservation Finance Initiative (CLARIFI). CLARIFI is […]

Ten Native American tribal nations, forming the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, have received ownership of 215 hectares (532 acres) of California’s redwood forest. The tribal council is partnering with Save the Redwoods League, which donated the land, to protect and restore their traditional coastal forest. Together they have developed a 30-year conservation plan to protect […]

One of the major announcements from the United Nations climate summit in Scotland last month, known as COP26, was the Glasgow Declaration on Forests and Land Use, along with the related funding it will set in motion. The declaration pledged $19.2 billion to end deforestation by 2030, and cited Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) […]

Program/Project Management Consultancy about Climate Change and Environment, requiring 10+ years of experience, from FSC; closing on 04 Jun 2021

These are the 11 books in progress that the Rs 18-lakh New India Foundation fellowships will support The books are meant to be works of non-fiction that throw light on an aspect of post-1947 India. 4 hours ago Novelist and poet Anjum Hasan is one of the 11 recipients of the fellowship. She will write a book on Shillong. | Zac O Yeah India is not known for funding literary projects in the making. There are – or were,...

A modern lumberjack in the Menominee Forest, an internationally recognized model of sustainable development. Tribal colleges have, for over 25 years, served tribal communities and American Indian people with a fervor and competency that have made these Indian-controlled institutions models for non-Indian institutions working with Indian students.  Part of the secret of tribal colleges is that these institutions arise out of their communities, serving them by operating libraries, head start pro...