Mina Setra News Today

Mina Setra remembers a time before oil palm plantations changed the landscape of her childhood home. Setra, an Indigenous Dayak Pompakng, grew up when forests surrounded her village in the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. Setra and her brother would spend their days canoeing on a nearby river, she says. […]

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JAKARTA — The Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), the main advocacy group for Indigenous communities in Indonesia, has won a 2023 Skoll Award for Social Innovation. Since its establishment in 1999, AMAN has been advocating for Indigenous rights to prevent communities from having their lands stolen. The main issue currently facing Indigenous communities […]

At COP26, more than 100 countries have pledged to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. The countries agreeing to the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use include nations with important forest cover like Brazil, Russia, Canada, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as major emitters like the U.S. and China.

Deforestation, loss of biodiversity and expansion of large-scale industrial development are related to pandemics, Indigenous leaders say.

Johnson says agreement should bring end to ‘great chainsaw massacre’ of planet’s forests

Johnson says agreement should bring end to ‘great chainsaw massacre’ of planet’s forests

Johnson says agreement should bring end to ‘great chainsaw massacre’ of planet’s forests

Historic declaration at Cop26 commits countries to ending major cause of CO2 emissions

Indigenous leaders from around the world are heading to the COP26 United Nations climate summit this weekend, where one of the main topics on their agenda will be highlighting community land tenure as an often-overlooked way to mitigate climate change. Research demonstrating that granting Indigenous peoples and forest communities formal titles to their lands as […]