Sentences with phrase «over forest rights»

Just why five people from Indonesian forest communities now find themselves deep in the Selva Maya is due to a confluence of factors: the resounding success of the forest concessions here in Guatemala, a landmark Indonesian court decision to hand over forest rights to local communities and indigenous groups, and the budding partnership between Guatemala's Association of Community Forests of the Petén (ACOFOP), who is hosting this exchange, and the Indonesia Indigenous People's Alliance (AMAN).

Not exact matches

But while the challenges posed to rural communities in Honduras are great, so are the opportunities: in the last decade, the government has begun handing over land rights to some local and indigenous people, providing an excellent basis for efforts to create sustainable forest economies.

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Nottingham Forest haven't got too much right on the field over the last few years, suffering disappointment after disappointment as managers come and go.

In the ensuing tussle over whether Ibrahim had the right to enter the Nyinahin Forest Reserve, Peter Abum Sarkodie, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), issued a statement, saying that the company had not obtained the required permit to enable it to mine bauxite in the area.

Over the weekend a report was issued on the rights of indigenous people to their forest habitat and so forth.

With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.

These satellite images, encompassing an area about 150 miles wide, show a tremendous loss of forest over just 12 years (the forest in 2000 on the left, and the same forest in 2012 to the right).

Now cursed with a mark on his right hand that will ultimately spread over his entire body and kill him, Ashitaka leaves his people and ventures into the forest, the setting of the film's central conflict.

However, when they're not enjoying the luxury of their home, they can go outside to play on just over four acres of property, with their own fenced, one acre yard and another forty acres of protected forest right behind to discover (with supervision of course).

Nestled in an old - growth forest right on the ocean's edge, the resort offers outstanding West Coast cuisine and service in the dining room with stunning views over Gartley Bay.

Located right in the center of Ubud, the monkey forest is a lush nature reserve and Hindu temple complex which houses over 600 plus monkeys.

At the Anahuac Spa you will experience the most unique and natural settings situated in the middle of a forest, right over a crystalline running stream and close to the main fumarole.

Walk right into the forest along over 3 km.

Whether you want to glide over the sparkling water, hang ten down a crashing wave or slip through a kelp forest, San Diego has just the right place for the water adventure of your choosing.

This is a fun guided tour that takes visitors through trails in the forest, right through rivers, over cow pastures, swimming in two waterfalls, and covers the beautiful beaches near Montezuma and Tambor, or Cabuya, Mal Pais and Santa Teresa.

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• Process pending indigenous land claims that cover over 20 million hectares of forest, and realize the rights of Peru's indigenous communities as enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Perights of Peru's indigenous communities as enshrined in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous PeRights of Indigenous Peoples.

As giant chunks of Indonesia's forests are destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, the government and the businesses that operate in Indonesia need to move as fast as possible to sustainable production methods, as well as make sure that rights over the forest are legally and transparently established.

Governments and their partners should help protect community forest rights by, for example, mapping community forest boundaries, helping to expel illegal loggers, and not granting commercial concessions over community forests.

According to the paper's theory this direction is the result of condensation - induced pressure reduction over the tropical Amazonian rain - forest, right?

The provision of financial resources in payment for ecosystem services projects, such as are associated with Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), has the potential to stimulate conflict over resources and property rights (Melick, 2010).

In reaction, 20 additional countries, including the Maldives, Ghana, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka have come forward to sign up to the Forest Pledge to protect forest and indigenous rights over the past three days, making a total of 31 nations thus far prepared to make a stand in the REDD negotiaForest Pledge to protect forest and indigenous rights over the past three days, making a total of 31 nations thus far prepared to make a stand in the REDD negotiaforest and indigenous rights over the past three days, making a total of 31 nations thus far prepared to make a stand in the REDD negotiations.

«The World Bank, northern countries and big international NGOs, under the eyes of the United Nations, are creating carbon cowboys that trample over the rights of indigenous peoples, our land and our forests,» said Tom Goldtooth, director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, an international organizational working with indigenous peoples of the world.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

As we see more governments signing over forest lands to corporate interests, the power of public awareness campaigns is emerging and creating a real opportunity to secure land rights and ultimately conserve our precious forests.

This is the case in Cameroon, for example, where Survival International (SI), which campaigns for the rights of Indigenous peoples, has made serious allegations over abuses of the Indigenous Baka people by forest guards employed by the government, but supported by WWF with uniforms, supplies and training, including human rights training.

Caleb Stevens of World Resources Insitute said that there's debate among land tenure experts over whether or not perpetual land rights are necessary to get the desired results of protected forests.

Over the past 10 years, as satellite mapping data of tree cover has become available, the relationship between local community rights and protecting forests has become more clear.