The Indonesian government has recognized the rights of 15 Indigenous Dayak communities to forests on Borneo covering a combined area larger than Jakarta.

The nearly 70,000 hectares (173,000 acres) is the largest cluster of customary forests ever recognized by the state.

by Hans Nicholas Jong
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/indonesia-awards-biggest-indigenous-forest-claim-yet-to-bornean-dayaks/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Indonesia #Indigenous #LandRights

Panama’s Indigenous Naso kingdom has spent decades fighting for land rights in the form of a comarca. But after finally getting one in 2020, struggles to demarcate and protect the land have become increasingly overwhelming.

The Naso lack the resources to establish the borders of their territory, which makes preventing farming and other drivers of deforestation extremely difficult.

By Maxwell Radwin
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/in-panama-an-indigenous-kingdom-fights-for-its-right-to-the-forest/

#News #Conservation #Environment #IndigenosPeoples #LandRights #Panama

“South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas put it in perspective when he spoke on the subject this week: “If our forefathers and mothers can say #yes to universal #franchise, if our great grandparents can say yes to waves of #migration, if our grandparents can say yes in 1967, if our parents can say yes to #LandRights, then this generation is capable of saying yes to an #AdvisoryCommittee.” https://mastodon.social/@mackayim2022/110998673564385073

In the east of Indonesia’s Seram Island, an Australian energy firm announced in July encouraging results from a survey of hydrocarbon deposits, describing the find as holding “world-class potential.”

Members of Seram’s Bati indigenous community told Mongabay the drilling had disturbed sites they have considered sacred for generations.

From Christ Belseran, and Martha Dianti

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/on-indonesias-seram-island-a-massive-oil-find-lies-beneath-sacred-land/

#Oil #Indonesia #Indigenous #LandRights #Conservation #News

Tensions between local communities and large-scale agriculture companies are running high in Cameroon and disputes over land and environmental impacts have increased over the years.

The Cameroonian government views industrial agriculture companies as drivers of future economic development and is encouraging the sector’s development, but their establishment is marred in land issues arising from colonization.

by Yannick Kenné

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/local-communities-protest-as-land-conflict-grows-with-more-agricultural-giants-in-cameroon/

#News #Cameroon #Agriculture #LandRights

TOP NEWS➡️#DrugWar: More killings under Marcos Jr.🚩#ICC updates

PLUS➡️#FreeLeilaDeLima: Habeas corpus🚩Reds to launch more offensives🚩#LandRights: CarpFail?🚩#LGBT: PH's 1st trans deacon🚩#Angkas hit for rape ad

06/13/23 Philippines human rights news https://humanrightsnews.substack.com/p/drugwar-more-killings-under-marcos

Brazil’s largest coalition of Indigenous groups has filed a motion with the country’s highest court in response to escalating police brutality against Indigenous peoples in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

by Aimee Gabay

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/indigenous-groups-turn-to-brazils-highest-court-to-stop-police-violence/

#News #IndigenousRights #Brazil #Violence #LandRights #LandConflict

Latin America: Top 10% of landowners capture up to 75% of the agricultural land value, while the bottom 50% own less than 2%.

In Argentina, the disparity is extremely sharp: 80% of smallholders occupy around 11% of demarcated agricultural land, while the big landowners who make up 0.3% of farmers occupy almost double that land. #AgrarianReform #LandRights #FoodSovereignty#Inequality

https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/argentina-land/

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/05/31/brazil-lawmakers-vote-to-limit-demarcation-of-indigenous-reserves_6028567_4.html?xtor=EPR-33281150-%5Blemonde_in_english_NY%5D-20230531-%5Bheadlines_titre_6%5D&M_BT=134019497503646 “Brazilian Indigenous communities reject the premise of the bill, arguing they have the right to their original territories, regardless of the status of their occupation in 1988” #Brazil #Indigenous #LandRights

#News: In #Africa, millions of workers who power the continent's economies have almost no legal rights to their lands or livelihoods. #Landgrabbing, #violence and #slavery are ongoing and connected to the #supplychain of #palmoil #cocoa and #mining #landrights #indigenous rights. Help them every time you shop and #humanrights #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife https://allafrica.com/stories/202305190047.html

Alt math air an tìr, a cleachdadh, a cànan agus cò leis i.

Good article on #LandOwnership and discussion of #Gaelic toponymy.
@BellaCaledonia

#LandRights #Scotland #Gaelic #MastoDaoine #Highlands

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/04/11/creag-ghuanach

Indonesia is the world’s leading nickel producer, propping up the globe’s electric battery supply. But the industry is increasingly coming at a high cost for indigenous groups.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxj8wm/uncontacted-tribe-threatened-i
#indonesia #Environment #uncontactedtribes #landrights #Indigenouslandrights #HUMANRIGHTS

Have a read of “The Politics of Property Rights in Kenya” and follow the authors of the article,
@MaiOHassan and @KathleenKlaus https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/885483 #Kenya #LandRights #WomensHistoryMonth #womenalsoknowstuff #AcademicTwitter #polisciresearch #followfriday

'The Government of England has declared war on the Irish people'

#MastoDaoine #Ireland #colonialism #LandRights

Seems like Canada's colonial project and ongoing violation of #Indigneous #LandRights progressed today

"This morning, a large force of RCMP C-IRG raided a Gidimt’en village site and arrested five land and water defenders, mostly Indigenous women, including Gidimt’en Chief Woos’ daughter. The raid accompanied a search warrant for theft under $5000 with no clear relation to the Gidimt’en village site."

#AllOutForWedzinKwa

https://www.yintahaccess.com/

"Costa Rica has won international acclaim for its initiatives to restore its forests. But those successes are now jeopardised by conflicts over the government’s failure to return traditional lands to the Indigenous people who are regarded as the best forest stewards."

#IndigenousPeoples #Forests #Biodiversity #Wildlife #LandRights

https://e360.yale.edu/features/costa-rica-deforestation-indigenous-lands

RT @landportal
In just half an hour webinar on the power of tenure rights recognition will begin! Join the conversation!

https://landportal.org/event/2023/03/maledu-judgment-power-tenure-rights-recognition
#SouthAfrica #ALIGN #landrights #communitylandrights @AlignLand @landportal @IIED @CCSI_Columbia @GlobalNamati @LHR_SA

Residents & #HumanRights groups say that #mining boom #threatens #farmers #LandRights & #harms #environment in areas such as #Wawonii in #ResourceRich #Sulawesi region, which is home to black #macaques , #maleo #birds & #tarsier #primates .

Facing prospect of losing their land & livelihood, about a dozen Wawonii #villagers take turns #KeepingWatch from a hut surrounded by clove trees, waiting for #trespassers as machinery roars below.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2023/03/19/2003796328

#AsianMastodon #LandDefenders

"...good to think that feelings towards the river can be stronger than politics,”

"the Universal Declaration of River Rights, which says rivers should have the right to flow, perform essential functions within the river’s ecosystem, be free from pollution, feed and be fed by sustainable aquifers and have native biodiversity, as well as the right to regeneration and restoration."

#LandRights #PersonHood #Rivers #Water #Biodiversity #RiversRights

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/sussex-river-ouse-first-in-england-legal-rights-aoe?mc_cid=5db9e5c113&mc_eid=4504f67d2e

"Indigenous peoples in Brazil are widely regarded as land protectors, and a new study of the Atlantic Forest confirms it."

“If we want to save the forest, we need the government to officially recognize that this is our land.”

#IndigenousPeoples #LandRights #ClimateAction #Biodiversity #Wildlife #Rainforest #Forest #IndigenousRights #FoodSovereignty

https://e360.yale.edu/features/brazil-atlantic-forest-indigenous-land-bees