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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. […]
SASIMWANI, Kenya — On a cold November afternoon, Esther Norparua and two of her daughters sat on the ground outside her homestead facing the forest. Dark clouds gathered, but the compound’s two houses would offer little shelter from the coming rain: several days earlier, police had descended on Ogiek villages in this part of Kenya’s […]
This year’s U.N. climate conference, COP28, featured much-improved Indigenous representation from last year’s event. Yet despite intensive lobbying by the more than 300 delegates, most Indigenous and civil society leaders were left disappointed at the end of the summit in Dubai. “You see Indigenous leaders and Indigenous youth in every corner of the venue … […]
Negotiators at the UN climate summit in Dubai have agreed to
Human rights groups have accused the Kenyan government of selling off acres of forest land to logging companies and tea farmers who have felled thousands of trees.