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					<title>Rare earth rush endangers rural communities and conservation areas in Brazil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/rare-earth-rush-endangers-rural-communities-and-conservation-areas-in-brazil/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Sep 2025 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fábio Bispofrom The Mining ObservatoryLúcio LambranhoMaurício Angelo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil and China]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Community-based Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Energy, Forest Destruction, Land Conflict, Land Reform, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Mining, and Renewable Energy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil ranks among the countries with the largest reserves of rare earth elements. But scaling up the extraction of these metals, used in various high-tech applications and essential to the clean energy transition, could lead to an increase conflicts in at least five Brazilian states, activists warn. Brazil holds 23% of global rare earth reserves, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil ranks among the countries with the largest reserves of rare earth elements. But scaling up the extraction of these metals, used in various high-tech applications and essential to the clean energy transition, could lead to an increase conflicts in at least five Brazilian states, activists warn. Brazil holds 23% of global rare earth reserves, according to the 2025 U.S. Mineral Commodity Summaries. That makes it second only to China, which controls the supply chain for minerals in terms of both reserves and processing, and has used this to wield geopolitical influence. However, Brazilian production remains at an early stage, accounting for only 1% of the global market. This is expected to change quickly with new projects currently in progress. The increased interest in rare earths is raising fears among community leaders in the country. Rural settlements that have been demarcated by INCRA, the national land reform institute, are now facing requests to explore for these minerals on their territory. According to research by the Mining Observatory, there are 187 applications for rare earth mining targeting 96 INCRA-registered settlements across Brazil. The state of Bahia has the most, with 88 applications, followed by Goiás with 53 and Pernambuco with 21. The search for rare earths in these areas, which overlap with settlements, is led by mostly obscure companies. The 600-year-old tree vs. the mine The two most advanced applications target the Reunidas Pau Brasil Sustainable Development Project, a rural settlement established in Bahia’s Itamaraju municipality. According to National Mining Agency&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/rare-earth-rush-endangers-rural-communities-and-conservation-areas-in-brazil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-305995</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Surge in critical minerals claims puts Brazil’s land reform communities at risk</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/surge-in-critical-minerals-claims-puts-brazils-land-reform-communities-at-risk/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Aug 2025 21:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fábio BispoGabriela SarmetLúcio LambranhoMaurício Angelo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community Development, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Mining, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The greed of mining companies in their search for critical minerals in Brazil is threatening food production and the environment, particularly in the Amazon and northeast region states. This is what an investigation by the Mining Observatory reveals about the impact of mining requirements related to strategic substances on the energy transition in settlements established [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The greed of mining companies in their search for critical minerals in Brazil is threatening food production and the environment, particularly in the Amazon and northeast region states. This is what an investigation by the Mining Observatory reveals about the impact of mining requirements related to strategic substances on the energy transition in settlements established through agrarian reform in Brazil. The analysis identified 3,391 mining processes overlapping 1,432 areas demarcated by the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA). These exploration interests cover 25 Brazilian states. Almost half of the mining projects aiming for strategic minerals that interfere with rural settlements are in the Brazilian Amazon region. In the nine states of the Brazilian Amazon, there are 1,765 mining projects overlapping 729 settlements. Pará leads the ranking nationwide, with 1,207 mining processes in 460 settlements. The northeast is the region with the second-highest number of mining processes that overlap rural settlements, accounting for 40% of the occurrences. Bahia (426 mining processes in 188 settlements) and Ceará (358 processes in 177 settlements) concentrate a large number of areas in conflict. In the southeast region, Minas Gerais stands out with 82 processes overlapping 37 settlements. Of the 3,391 mining processes impacting rural settlements that were approved by the National Mining Agency (ANM), 1,938 are at the research authorization stage and 694 are at the research application stage. At least 108 processes are at the mining application stage and 70 are at the mining concession stage. The research considered key substances for the energy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/surge-in-critical-minerals-claims-puts-brazils-land-reform-communities-at-risk/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-303898</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cambodian companies tied to abuses promoted by UN program, rights group alleges</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/cambodian-companies-tied-to-abuses-promoted-by-un-program-rights-group-alleges/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jun 2024 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gerald Flynn]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Business, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Crime, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, Illegal Logging, Illegal Trade, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Industrial Agriculture, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Logging, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Sustainable Development, Timber, timber trade, Tropical Deforestation, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[PHNOM PENH — A rights group in Cambodia has accused a United Nations project of promoting private sector actors tied to human rights and environmental abuses. The U.N. Development Programme’s SDG Impact – Private Sector Capital project includes the SDG Investor Platform and Cambodia SDG Investor Map, which aim to assist in facilitating investment in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PHNOM PENH — A rights group in Cambodia has accused a United Nations project of promoting private sector actors tied to human rights and environmental abuses. The U.N. Development Programme’s SDG Impact – Private Sector Capital project includes the SDG Investor Platform and Cambodia SDG Investor Map, which aim to assist in facilitating investment in Cambodian companies. The complaint, filed by the organization Licadho, alleges a failure in the UNDP’s due diligence prior to establishing the project, resulting in companies alleged of abusing rights and environmental crimes being listed as potential investment opportunities. “UNDP selected private sector actors and categorized them as ‘partners’ for the project, lending reputational support to companies with documented involvement in coerced land sales, forced evictions, deforestation of protection areas and Indigenous lands, child labor, trafficking in persons, and other harms,” Licadho wrote in a May 24 statement. Licadho is representing victims, whose identities have not been revealed, in the complaint that was filed with the UNDP’s Social and Environmental Compliance Unit (SECU) on March 6. “Licadho raised concerns both in-person and over email about aspects of this project as far back as December 2022,” said Naly Pilorge, Licadho’s outreach director. “UNDP Cambodia representatives responded that the project did not fall under UNDP’s due diligence policies, leaving us no other option but to proceed with a formal complaint. We strongly disagree with UNDP Cambodia’s assessment that this does not fall under their due diligence policies, and we hope the SECU will clarify this issue as part&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/cambodian-companies-tied-to-abuses-promoted-by-un-program-rights-group-alleges/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-282970</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Fishers left with no land, no fish, in fire sale of Cambodian coast</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/fishers-left-with-no-land-no-fish-in-fire-sale-of-cambodian-coast/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jun 2024 09:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Andy BallGerald FlynnVutha Srey]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Chaos on Cambodia’s Coast]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Birds, Business, Coastal Ecosystems, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Crime, Development, Ecosystems, Ecotourism, Environment, Environmental Law, Farming, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, food security, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Illegal Fishing, Illegal Trade, Islands, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Marine, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Overfishing, Poverty, Protected Areas, Protests, Sustainability, and Tourism]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the second part of a Mongabay series about challenges faced by Cambodia’s small-scale fishers along the coast. Read Part One and Part Three. KOH KONG &#38; PREAH SIHANOUK, Cambodia — By 11 a.m., the sun was already beating down on Daem Thkov. The chatter of tourists on the nearby beach floated on the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the second part of a Mongabay series about challenges faced by Cambodia’s small-scale fishers along the coast. Read Part One and Part Three. KOH KONG &amp; PREAH SIHANOUK, Cambodia — By 11 a.m., the sun was already beating down on Daem Thkov. The chatter of tourists on the nearby beach floated on the gentle sea breeze through the fishing village on the Cambodian island of Koh Rong. But behind the tranquil scenes of turquoise waters, white sands and morning cocktails, an uncertainty has gripped those who call Daem Thkov home. What the tourists sipping cocktails on the beach that morning were likely unaware of is that almost the entirety of Koh Rong has been leased out to one of the country’s most powerful and notorious conglomerates. Royal Group’s project throws into question the protection conferred upon the island by Koh Rong Marine National Park and leaves residents doubting their future on the island in the face of the $300 million tourism development. Bulldozers and trucks work on Royal Group’s international Koh Rong airport in March 2024. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay. “We see that Royal Group has not carried out critical development yet,” said Pel Ra, deputy leader of the Daem Thkov community fishery (CFi) on Koh Rong. “The people here instead have fear and concern … Although [Royal Group] has built road networks, they have land issues with the people.” While tourism has&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/fishers-left-with-no-land-no-fish-in-fire-sale-of-cambodian-coast/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-282912</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, and the banks funding them</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/reports-allege-abuses-by-glencore-in-peru-and-colombia-and-the-banks-funding-them/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Dec 2023 16:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia, Europe, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Conflict, Culture, Energy, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Mining, Pollution, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mining giant Glencore’s operations in Peru and Colombia continue to threaten Indigenous communities and cause extensive environmental damage despite the company’s public pledges to mitigate harms, according to three new reports by advocacy organizations. European banks are also among the top investors in these mines, according to their findings. The Switzerland-based miner has a long [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mining giant Glencore’s operations in Peru and Colombia continue to threaten Indigenous communities and cause extensive environmental damage despite the company’s public pledges to mitigate harms, according to three new reports by advocacy organizations. European banks are also among the top investors in these mines, according to their findings. The Switzerland-based miner has a long history of human and environmental rights abuses. In the past decade, it has been entangled in land rights violations, numerous bribery and corruption investigations, court cases, and denunciations by local and international officials, including the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights and the environment. Since 2013 and continuing to this day, Glenore’s Antapaccay copper mine in the Peruvian province of Espinar has reportedly led to air pollution levels that exceed international safe limits. The Peruvian NGO CooperAcción, an author of one of the reports, detailed high concentrations of chlorides and sulfates in many of the surrounding rivers, such as the Salado, as well as toxic metals in local plants and animals. And in Colombia, Censat Agua Viva (CENSAT) and the Center for Research and Popular Education (CINEP), two organizations that authored another report, identified extensive environmental damage and pollution caused by Glencore’s Cerrejón coal mine in the department of La Guajira. Ever since 1975, when the mine was first owned by INTERCOR, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, the NGOs say the mine has drastically transformed the natural landscape and affected the health of more than 336,000 people. Glencore completed its purchase of the mine in 2022.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/reports-allege-abuses-by-glencore-in-peru-and-colombia-and-the-banks-funding-them/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Glencore’s coal expansion plans face shareholder and Indigenous opposition</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/glencores-coal-expansion-plans-face-shareholder-and-indigenous-opposition/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Nov 2023 02:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike DiGirolamo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Australia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate, Climate Change, Coal, Culture, Energy, Finance, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Land Rights, Land Speculation, and Mining]]>
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							<![CDATA[SYDNEY — In October last year, an Australian development planning body rejected Swiss-based mining giant Glencore’s proposed coal mine expansion on land connected to a significant massacre site for the Indigenous Wonnarua people of Australia’s Hunter Valley. The project “is not in the public interest despite its likely benefits,” the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SYDNEY — In October last year, an Australian development planning body rejected Swiss-based mining giant Glencore’s proposed coal mine expansion on land connected to a significant massacre site for the Indigenous Wonnarua people of Australia’s Hunter Valley. The project “is not in the public interest despite its likely benefits,” the Independent Planning Commission (IPC) of the state of New South Wales said in a media release rejecting Glencore’s application to expand. The expansion would potentially relocate the Ravensworth Homestead — where Indigenous sources say an army lieutenant, Nathaniel Lowe, was arrested for massacring native prisoners on the property in the 19th century — to another location. This would have significant, irreversible and unjustified impacts on the historic heritage values of the Ravensworth Homestead complex, said the IPC. “It is part of Aboriginal lore that everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, should work together to ensure that we look after the land for future generations to come,” Scott Franks and Robert Lester, representatives of the Plains Clan of the Wonnarua people, wrote in an open letter. It was a brief moment of relief for the Wonnarua people and a slight setback for Glencore, the largest coal producer in Australia. But the mining giant says it intends to continue pushing for the expansion, as the final checkmark to protect the Ravensworth Homestead — the receipt of a heritage listing — drags on more than a year later. Protesters &#8211; led by Scott Franks &#8211; protest outside the NSW Parliament to launch an open letter&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/glencores-coal-expansion-plans-face-shareholder-and-indigenous-opposition/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-275551</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Majority of Brazil’s Congress votes to restrict Indigenous land advances</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/majority-of-brazils-congress-votes-against-indigenous-land-rights/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Jun 2023 16:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jenny Gonzales]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Agribusiness, Amazon Conservation, and Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Culture, Deforestation, Environmental Law, Forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Industrial Agriculture, Industry, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Reform, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Law, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[SÃO PAULO — On Tuesday, Brazil’s Lower House of Congress overwhelmingly voted and approved a bill to restrict the legal recognition of Indigenous territories throughout the country. Among many changes, the bill 490/2007 establishes a time frame — marco temporal in Portuguese — that only recognizes Indigenous land rights if they were living there or [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SÃO PAULO — On Tuesday, Brazil’s Lower House of Congress overwhelmingly voted and approved a bill to restrict the legal recognition of Indigenous territories throughout the country. Among many changes, the bill 490/2007 establishes a time frame — marco temporal in Portuguese — that only recognizes Indigenous land rights if they were living there or fighting for them, physically or judicially, on the date of enactment of the Federal Constitution on October 5, 1988. The bill disregards that many communities were expelled from their ancestral territories long before that date, said Indigenous opponents like Dinamam Tuxá, executive coordinator of APIB, a coalition of Brazil&#8217;s Indigenous organizations. They call the bill unconstitutional for ignoring Indigenous land rights established in the Constitution. The text was approved with 337 votes in favor, 125 against and one abstention. It was a victory, among others, for the country’s agribusiness lobby and farmers with influential ties to the Lower House, which set the bill as a voting priority, and for the House president, Arthur Lira, who wanted the vote before the judgment of the Federal Supreme Court on the subject, scheduled for next June 7. Political allies of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva&#8217;s (Lula) party also voted in favor of the bill, despite the president&#8217;s efforts to expand the recognition of Indigenous lands. The bill still needs approval in the Senate and a signature by the president to become law. A date has not yet been set for Senate voting. The president has powers to veto&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/majority-of-brazils-congress-votes-against-indigenous-land-rights/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Brazilians aren’t familiar with the Amazon’: Q&#038;A with Ângela Mendes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/brazilians-arent-familiar-with-the-amazon-qa-with-angela-mendes/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Sep 2022 11:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carolina Conti]]>
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						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Cattle, Conflict, Corruption, Crime, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Human Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Reform, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Law, Law Enforcement, Protests, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Saving Rainforests, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Tropical Deforestation, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environmental activist Ângela Mendes coordinates the Chico Mendes Committee as part of her efforts to keep alive the memory and legacy of her father, a leader of the rubber tapper community and environmental resistance. In an interview with Mongabay Brasil, Ângela Mendes talks about the role of social networks as a fundamental instrument for resistance in the 21st century.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ângela Mendes was 17 years old when she began to spend more time with her father, the rubber tapper and environmental activist Chico Mendes. She has memories of short trips with him in the Xapuri region. It was a hostile time, and members of the Xapuri Rural Union would hide him in a car to protect him from potential attacks. A few months later, Mendes was murdered in his home. Today, Ângela Mendes carries on her father’s legacy via the Chico Mendes Committee and understands that taking on the cause of protecting the Amazon is about more than just fighting for the rights of the people living in the rainforest: “I still believe what my dad used to say: in the beginning, I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees. Then, I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon Rainforest. Today, I see that I’m fighting for humanity.” One of Chico Mendes’s most notable legacies is the network of extractive reserves, or Resex as they’re known in Brazil, where traditional forest communities, including the rubber tappers of whom he was a part, continue to practice sustainable management and use of nature. In 2007, the government established the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), which is responsible for managing federally protected areas such as Resex and national parks. Mongabay Brasil spoke with Ângela Mendes recently to hear about how she has taken on her father’s mantle, why social networks are the future of resistance, and the importance of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/brazilians-arent-familiar-with-the-amazon-qa-with-angela-mendes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>NGOs alert U.N. to furtive 2-million-hectare carbon deal in Malaysian Borneo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/ngos-alert-u-n-to-furtive-2-million-hectare-carbon-deal-in-malaysian-borneo/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Mar 2022 04:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Kalimantan, Malaysia, North Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Culture, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Law, Finance, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forests, Governance, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Landscape Restoration, Logging, Mining, Nature-based climate solutions, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, public lands, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Organizations in the Malaysian state of Sabah have filed a complaint with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples about a once-secretive deal aimed at locking up the rights to credits for carbon and other “natural capital” from the state’s forests. Several leaders in Sabah signed the nature conservation agreement, or NCA, with [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Organizations in the Malaysian state of Sabah have filed a complaint with the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples about a once-secretive deal aimed at locking up the rights to credits for carbon and other “natural capital” from the state’s forests. Several leaders in Sabah signed the nature conservation agreement, or NCA, with representatives from a Singaporean firm called Hoch Standard Pte. Ltd. on Oct. 28, 2021. The NCA laid out a revenue-sharing plan that covered the right to sell credits from the ecosystem services provided by 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) of forest for at least the next 100 years. Proponents of the deal said it would provide funding for economic development to the state and ensure the covered area is protected from logging and other destructive impacts. But the terms were finalized by and large without the knowledge of Indigenous and forest-dependent communities living in Sabah, said Peter Burgess, an Australian businessman who said he was involved in negotiating the agreement, in a November 2021 interview with Mongabay. Since Mongabay published an article on Nov. 9 that first made the details of the NCA public, attacks on the legality and ethical rigor of the arrangement have beleaguered the deal and its proponents. Many skeptics argue that the lack of transparency calls into question whether the deal is binding or enforceable. A rope bridge connected to a community in the Crocker Range. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. “We are taking this issue to the United Nations&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/ngos-alert-u-n-to-furtive-2-million-hectare-carbon-deal-in-malaysian-borneo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Thai authorities demolish resorts in parks, but struggle to prosecute encroachers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/thai-authorities-demolish-resorts-in-parks-but-struggle-to-prosecute-encroachers/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2022 06:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kannikar Petchkaew]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Southeast Asia, and Thailand]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Encroachment, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Habitat Loss, Infrastructure, Land Conflict, Land Speculation, Landscape Restoration, Law, Law Enforcement, National Parks, Protected Areas, Tourism, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since October 2020, Thailand&#8217;s national parks authority has demolished or ordered the demolition of more than 20 luxury mansions, resorts and tourist hotels illegally built in national parks throughout the country&#8217;s Western Forest Complex, a globally significant biodiversity conservation corridor. Among the properties already demolished are a 3.2-hectare (8-acre) resort with 20 bungalows, allegedly belonging [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since October 2020, Thailand&#8217;s national parks authority has demolished or ordered the demolition of more than 20 luxury mansions, resorts and tourist hotels illegally built in national parks throughout the country&#8217;s Western Forest Complex, a globally significant biodiversity conservation corridor. Among the properties already demolished are a 3.2-hectare (8-acre) resort with 20 bungalows, allegedly belonging to the daughter of a retired general, and a 17-bungalow resort reportedly owned by a retired general. Other demolished properties include a mansion belonging to the owner of a milk factory, and a floating hotel with a blue granite swimming pool. Fifteen of the properties already torn down or awaiting demolition sat on the banks of the Srinakarin Dam&#8217;s 420-square-kilometer (162-square-mile) reservoir. The old-growth tropical forests surrounding the reservoir form an integral part of Srinakarin Dam National Park. Six others sat in Sai Yok National Park, on the banks of the world-famous Kwai Noi River. Both parks are part of Thailand&#8217;s Western Forest Complex, which covers more than 18,000 km2 (7,000 mi2) and encompasses 19 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries. Just a two-hour drive from the capital, Bangkok, the lush forests have become a major tourist attraction and are home to hundreds of hotels and tourist resorts. A riverside resort in Sai Yok National Park. Image by Qsimple via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). Nipon Jamnongsirisak, head of the Department of National Parks unit responsible for both Srinakarin Dam and Sai Yok national parks, told Mongabay that owners of properties built within park boundaries have been&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/thai-authorities-demolish-resorts-in-parks-but-struggle-to-prosecute-encroachers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Malaysian officials dampen prospects for giant, secret carbon deal in Sabah</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/malaysian-officials-dampen-prospects-for-giant-secret-carbon-deal-in-sabah/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Feb 2022 20:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Offset Markets and Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Development, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Services, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forests, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Landscape Restoration, Mitigation, Nature-based climate solutions, NGOs, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[An agreement for the rights to the natural capital covering 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) in Malaysian Borneo for the next 100 years “in its present form is legally impotent,” according to Nor Asiah Mohd Yusof, the attorney general for the state of Sabah. Nor Asiah’s assertions are the strongest signal yet that the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An agreement for the rights to the natural capital covering 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) in Malaysian Borneo for the next 100 years “in its present form is legally impotent,” according to Nor Asiah Mohd Yusof, the attorney general for the state of Sabah. Nor Asiah’s assertions are the strongest signal yet that the sweeping pact involving a Singaporean shell company lacks the support of key leaders in the state. “The State Government will not permit any land to be leased, transferred or otherwise &#8216;handed over&#8217; as part of any carbon trading or carbon monetisation program,” she said in a Feb. 9 statement. “This includes the proposed NCA.” The NCA, short for nature conservation agreement, was signed between leaders of the state of Sabah and representatives of Singapore-based Hoch Standard Ptd. Ltd. on Oct. 28, 2021. Though the specifics of the NCA remain vague, it enlists Hoch Standard to help the state sell credits for carbon sequestration, water provisioning and other natural capital stemming from the protection of Sabah’s forests from logging and other potentially destructive uses. In return for its services, Hoch Standard will get 30% of the revenue, according to the deal’s terms. A community in western Sabah. Image by John C. Cannon/Mongabay. Mongabay reported on Nov. 9 that the deal had been struck in secret. One person who said he was involved in the negotiations — Peter Burgess, the Australian CEO of Malaysia-based Global Nature Capital Sdn. Bhd. and Tierra Australia Pty. Ltd. — told Mongabay&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/malaysian-officials-dampen-prospects-for-giant-secret-carbon-deal-in-sabah/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Can ecotourism save Cambodia’s ‘ghost parks’?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/can-ecotourism-save-cambodias-ghost-parks/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Feb 2022 03:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Andy BallGerald Flynn]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carving up the Cardamoms]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, Green, Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging, Land Grabbing, Land Speculation, Logging, National Parks, Old Growth Forests, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Timber, timber trade, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the third article in a three-part series. Read Part One and Part Two. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia  — In March 2021, Cambodia signed into law Sub-decree No. 30, which removed official protection from some 127,000 hectares of land formerly included in national parks, reserves and wildlife sanctuaries in Koh Kong province. Purportedly done to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the third article in a three-part series. Read Part One and Part Two. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia  — In March 2021, Cambodia signed into law Sub-decree No. 30, which removed official protection from some 127,000 hectares of land formerly included in national parks, reserves and wildlife sanctuaries in Koh Kong province. Purportedly done to grant land rights to local communities, a 2021 Mongabay investigation revealed that land brokers with links to government officials were buying up large expanses of this now-obtainable land. The move cast a pall of uncertainty over the future of Koh Kong’s wildlife, as well as multinational conservation projects planned for the region. Fauna and Flora International, who have launched numerous projects in the area, declined to comment on the potential impacts that the sub-decree could have on their work. Meanwhile, the World Bank, which kicked off a $50.66 million project aimed at enhancing ecotourism and the management of protected areas in the Cardamoms region also declined to answer questions on whether they were aware of the planned sub-decree when their project launched in 2019 or how it would alter their multi-million dollar conservation investment. An aerial view of the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. Image by Andyb3947 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). All of this, in turn, raises greater questions over the purpose and future of Cambodia’s protected areas. Neth Pheaktra, spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment, said that a 2018 assessment of Cambodia’s protected areas found that some 7.3 million hectares of forest land&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/can-ecotourism-save-cambodias-ghost-parks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Endangered wildlife face perilous future as vital habitat loses protection in Cambodia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/endangered-wildlife-face-perilous-future-as-vital-habitat-loses-protection-in-cambodia/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Feb 2022 02:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Andy BallGerald Flynn]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, Green, Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging, Land Grabbing, Land Speculation, Logging, National Parks, Old Growth Forests, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Timber, timber trade, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the second article in a three-part series. Read Part One and Part Three. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In 2017, an elephant in Cambodia’s Kirium National Park was electrocuted as it leaned against power lines in a formerly forested area. This wasn’t an isolated incident—another elephant reportedly died in the same manner the previous [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the second article in a three-part series. Read Part One and Part Three. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In 2017, an elephant in Cambodia’s Kirium National Park was electrocuted as it leaned against power lines in a formerly forested area. This wasn’t an isolated incident—another elephant reportedly died in the same manner the previous year— and prompted conservationists to point to the widening imbalance between the need for development and conservation in Cambodia. In March 2021, this imbalance has widened into a chasm as Cambodia’s government signed Sub-decree No. 30 into law, effectively revoking protection from some 127,000 hectares of land in reserves, wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in the southern province of Koh Kong. This transformation of public, protected land into state-private land was ostensibly done to provide land titles to rural residents. However, a 2021 Mongabay investigation revealed that a group of land brokers with connections to Defense Minister Tea Banh and his brother Tea Vinh were buying up vast swathes of land degazetted by the sub-decree. There are an estimated 300-400 wild Asian elephants remaining in Cambodia. Image by user Elephantslover via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Asian elephants (Elephas maximus), Malayan sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus), pileated gibbons (Hylobates pileatus), Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica), fishing cats (Prionailurus viverrinus) and giant ibises (Thaumatibis gigantea) have all called Koh Kong home, but Cambodia’s coastal fire sale is just the latest in a string of threats looming over the province’s habitat and wildlife. Together&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/endangered-wildlife-face-perilous-future-as-vital-habitat-loses-protection-in-cambodia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How a ‘dirty gambling company’ may have set the standard for habitat destruction in Cambodia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/how-a-dirty-gambling-company-may-have-set-the-standard-for-destruction-in-cambodia/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Feb 2022 01:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Andy BallGerald Flynn]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the first article in a three-part series. Read Part Two and Part Three. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — “I was detained for a night, the authorities had come to tear down another house, so I went to help, but ended up getting arrested instead,” said Phal Seat, a 47-year-old resident in Koh Kong province’s [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This is the first article in a three-part series. Read Part Two and Part Three. PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — “I was detained for a night, the authorities had come to tear down another house, so I went to help, but ended up getting arrested instead,” said Phal Seat, a 47-year-old resident in Koh Kong province’s Botum Sakor district. “Before, we lived near the sea, we had a livelihood there, but we were made to move for UDG’s [Union Development Group] concession. They made us move here, by this road, but now they won’t give us land titles.” Seat lost his 5-hectare plot of land, as did the estimated 1,000 families locked in an ongoing land dispute with UDG—a Chinese enterprise—that was granted a 36,000-hectare concession in Botum Sakor National Park in 2008, followed by an additional 9,100-hectare concession granted in 2011. The $3.8 billion investment is set to consume roughly 20 percent of Cambodia’s coast, which had previously provided Seat and other Cambodians with fish, crabs and snails. “Nobody comes to intervene, no-one can solve our problems—these days I feel like I see a lot of injustice, we cannot build houses here because we don’t have land titles, we cannot farm because we don’t have land titles and we cannot have land titles because the local authorities won’t give them to us,” Seat said. Seat said authorities even dismantled a well that he and the other villagers had built to provide clean drinking water. In October 2021, the Koh Kong&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/how-a-dirty-gambling-company-may-have-set-the-standard-for-destruction-in-cambodia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous leader sues over Borneo natural capital deal</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/indigenous-leader-sues-over-borneo-natural-capital-deal/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Dec 2021 10:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carbon Offset Markets and Covering Climate Now]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Development, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Services, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forests, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Human Rights, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Landscape Restoration, Mitigation, Nature-based climate solutions, NGOs, Palm Oil, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Adrian Lasimbang, an Indigenous leader in Malaysian Borneo, is suing the state of Sabah, contesting a recently signed agreement selling the rights to carbon and other natural capital from 2 million [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Adrian Lasimbang, an Indigenous leader in Malaysian Borneo, is suing the state of Sabah, contesting a recently signed agreement selling the rights to carbon and other natural capital from 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) of forest to a foreign company for the next 100 years. The deal allows Hoch Standard Pte. Ltd., a Singaporean holding company, to sell credits for carbon and other natural capital, such as the provision of clean water, on the global market. It also calls for the protection and restoration of forests that would make these credits possible. And it stipulates that Sabah’s 70% share of the revenues, which according to the agreement’s backers, would go to funding employment, education and health care set forth by guidelines such as the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. The remaining 30% of revenues would go to Hoch Standard. Tawai Forest Reserve in Sabah, seen from the air. Image © LEAP. Civil society and Indigenous communities have criticized the agreement, which was signed by representatives of the state government and a Singapore-based company on Oct. 28. They say it bypassed substantive input and consent from the people living in and around Sabah’s forests. And, until recently, the framers of the agreement have shared scant information about the company (or companies) involved in the agreement and who they are led by. Lasimbang, who is a technical adviser&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/indigenous-leader-sues-over-borneo-natural-capital-deal/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bornean communities locked into 2-million-hectare carbon deal they don’t know about</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/bornean-communities-locked-into-2-million-hectare-carbon-deal-they-dont-know-about/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Nov 2021 19:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indigenous Peoples and Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Carbon Credits, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Culture, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Finance, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forests, Green, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Landscape Restoration, Logging, Mining, Nature-based climate solutions, Palm Oil, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Politics, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Pulp And Paper, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Restoration, Solutions, Sustainable Forest Management, Timber, Traditional People, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Leaders in Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, have signed a profit-sharing deal to market carbon and other natural capital from more than 2 million hectares (4.9 million [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Update Feb. 10, 2022: Sabah&#8217;s attorney general says the consent of Indigenous communities is required for this agreement to move forward. Read the update here. Leaders in Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, have signed a profit-sharing deal to market carbon and other natural capital from more than 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) of the state’s forests for at least the next 100 years. But the communities living in and around those forests know next to nothing about it. The “nature conservation agreement,” brokered by an Australian consultancy called Tierra Australia, is aimed at the restoration of ecosystems. That would allow the sale of credits for carbon and other ecosystem services to companies seeking to meet sustainability goals, such as reducing their carbon footprints by offsetting their emissions. Under the terms of the deal, Tierra Australia and its partners will receive 30% of the profits from the credits for natural capital sold for the next 100-200 years, according to Peter Burgess, the company’s CEO. He said the remaining 70% would go to the Sabah state government to fund economic development for people living in and around the forests. “We’re going to employ [community members] — gainfully employ them — back into restoring jungles,” Burgess told Mongabay. But, he said, “They actually don’t know that their jungles have been conserved, have been signed up and are going to be conserved for 200 years.” Read a November 24, 2021 update on this developing story here. A man fishes in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/bornean-communities-locked-into-2-million-hectare-carbon-deal-they-dont-know-about/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indigenous lands under siege as buffalo frenzy grips the Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/indigenous-lands-under-siege-as-buffalo-frenzy-grips-the-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2021 00:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ana Ionova]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Trackers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Cattle, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Land Grabbing, Land Speculation, Mining, Pasture, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Ranching, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[TRINCHEIRA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Deep in the Trincheira reserve, our motor boat winds through a maze of streams, or igarapés, sliding past dense submerged rainforest. It halts on the riverbank, in the cool shadow of the towering trees. Just meters into the jungle, though, the emerald canopy gives way to a vast stretch of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[TRINCHEIRA INDIGENOUS TERRITORY, Brazil — Deep in the Trincheira reserve, our motor boat winds through a maze of streams, or igarapés, sliding past dense submerged rainforest. It halts on the riverbank, in the cool shadow of the towering trees. Just meters into the jungle, though, the emerald canopy gives way to a vast stretch of felled forest and charred shrubs. “Ever since I can remember, this forest stood untouched,” says Souza Dias Alvez, resident of the Indigenous village of Trincheira, a 15-minute journey by boat down the Preto Pantaleão river. “This here is a tragedy; it brings me deep sadness.” This stretch of land along the Indigenous reserve’s southern edge &#8211; measuring about 20 hectares &#8211; was razed just a few months ago, he said. Alerted by Indigenous residents, federal police agents embargoed the area a few weeks before Mongabay visited in late September, prohibiting its burning. Still, the invaders returned, setting it ablaze. Souza Dias Alvez, of the Mura Indigenous people, surveys the destruction left behind by invaders who cleared a swath of rainforest in the São Pedro Indigenous Reserve in Autazes, Amazonas. The region is seeing a surge in deforestation that is now encroaching on Indigenous lands, as buffalo ranchers turn more land into pasture. Image by Ana Ionova for Mongabay. In the scorching mid-morning heat, Alvez picks up a 20-kg paper sack, emptied of grass seeds and discarded amid the ashes and broken branches. “They already planted the grass. All this here will be turned into pasture,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/indigenous-lands-under-siege-as-buffalo-frenzy-grips-the-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The great Koh Kong land rush: Areas stripped of protection by Cambodian gov&#8217;t being bought up</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/the-great-koh-kong-land-rush-areas-stripped-of-protection-by-cambodian-govt-being-bought-up/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Oct 2021 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Gerald Flynn]]>
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						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Carving up the Cardamoms and Investigation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Business, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, Green, Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging, Land Grabbing, Land Speculation, Logging, Mongabay investigation, National Parks, Old Growth Forests, Plantations, Primary Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Slash-and-burn, Timber, timber trade, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In July, conservationists in Cambodia sounded the alarm over a regulation that saw eight protected areas in Koh Kong province collectively lose territory twice the size of Phnom Penh, the country’s capital. Officials said the move, affecting nearly 127,000 hectares (314,000 acres) under Sub-decree No. 30, was meant to grant land [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — In July, conservationists in Cambodia sounded the alarm over a regulation that saw eight protected areas in Koh Kong province collectively lose territory twice the size of Phnom Penh, the country’s capital. Officials said the move, affecting nearly 127,000 hectares (314,000 acres) under Sub-decree No. 30, was meant to grant land titles to communities living throughout the protected areas. But an investigation spanning six districts of Koh Kong supports conservationists’ concerns that the sub-decree would be abused by Cambodia’s wealthy elite. While the sub-decree was signed into law in March 2021 and made public in May this year, a Mongabay investigation has revealed that an opaque network of land brokers has been buying up land in former protected areas listed in Sub-decree No. 30 as early as January 2021, and appears to have been orchestrated in part by National Defense Minister Tea Banh and his brother, Tea Vinh, the head of the Royal Cambodian Navy. Communities across Koh Kong, along with civil society groups, have grown increasingly concerned that Cambodia’s latest land-titling expedition is being exploited by politically connected private interests. Sources say these interests are obfuscating land purchases through an extensive network of brokers and middlemen, essentially preventing communities from receiving the promised land titles. “That’s how they do it, they send some people out here, they count up how many families live here so they can calculate how much land they can take from us,” said Dara, who owns a guesthouse in Tatai Kraom,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/the-great-koh-kong-land-rush-areas-stripped-of-protection-by-cambodian-govt-being-bought-up/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Deforestation sweeps national park in Brazil as land speculators advance</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/deforestation-sweeps-national-park-in-brazil-as-land-speculators-advance/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Sep 2021 23:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ana Ionova]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deep in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the emerald canopy of the Campos Amazonicôs National Park sprawls across nearly a million hectares of land. Within it, dense forest hugs stretches of savanna shrubs – a rare sight that has turned the park into a biologist’s treasure. Yet, along its edges, trees are being razed at a breakneck [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deep in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, the emerald canopy of the Campos Amazonicôs National Park sprawls across nearly a million hectares of land. Within it, dense forest hugs stretches of savanna shrubs – a rare sight that has turned the park into a biologist’s treasure. Yet, along its edges, trees are being razed at a breakneck pace as invaders rush to claim swaths of it. The Campos Amazonicôs National Park is officially under strict federal protection, with all exploration and activity barred within its limits. The area was designated as a conservation unit in 2006, with the aim of shielding the savanna – or cerrado – enclave that lies nestled within it, which scientists believe      holds crucial clues about how both ecosystems evolved over time. The park was also intended as a buffer from the deforestation radiating from the Trans-Amazonian Highway, which runs 4,260 kilometers (2,647 miles) from the coastal state of Paraíba to the southern edge of Amazonas. The park’s creation was meant to protect the region’s rich biodiversity and the rivers that snake through it from the destruction next door. “It’s an area that is really important for conservation,” said Fernanda Meirelles, co     ordinator at Idesam, a Manaus-based nonprofit focused on conservation and sustainable development of the Amazon. “The diversity is really rich, there are species that are only found there.” The park stretches through Amazonas state and crosses into neighboring Rondônia and Mato Grosso, where cattle and soy fields are fast replacing rainforest. Most of it is nestled&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/deforestation-sweeps-national-park-in-brazil-as-land-speculators-advance/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Cerrado desertification: Savanna could collapse within 30 years, says study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/cerrado-desertification-savanna-could-collapse-within-30-years-says-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jul 2021 14:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Fernanda Wenzel]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Cerrado]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Cerrado, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Business, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Desertification, Environment, Extreme Weather, Farming, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Grasslands, Impact Of Climate Change, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Landscape Restoration, Plantations, Politics, Soy, Temperatures, Water, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nearly half of Brazil’s savanna biome has already been lost to agriculture. Scientists say further deforestation may bring biodiversity collapse and disastrous drought, putting Brazil’s water supply and agricultural economy at grave risk.]]>
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							<![CDATA[One of the world&#8217;s biodiversity hotspots and a vital source of much of Brazil’s water, the Cerrado biome may collapse in less than 30 years if agribusiness keeps advancing at its current frenetic pace. That is the key finding of a primary research article presented by 12 Brazilian scientists and recently published in Global Change Biology. The tropical savanna, which lies south and east of the Amazon rainforest, is an immense biome covering 2 million square kilometers (772,000 square miles), or an area the size of Mexico, and inclusive of all or parts of 10 Brazilian states. With a dry season that lasts roughly from June to September, and soils poor in nutrients, the savanna’s native vegetation is composed mainly of grasslands dotted by dry forest patches. While the biome lacks the gigantic rainforest trees of the neighboring Amazon, that doesn&#8217;t prevent the Cerrado from being a very rich bastion of biodiversity. It is home to more than 4,800 plant and vertebrate species found nowhere else in the world. This frog species Physalaemus nattereri (posterior view shown) is found in the open Cerrado, but not in adjacent gallery forests. Image by Felipe Gomes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5). &nbsp; &#8220;We are talking about entire lineages of life that will disappear, not to mention several insects that only exist in Cerrado,&#8221; warns Gabriel Hofmann, a doctor in ecology and postgraduate student in geography at Rio Grande do Sul Federal University (UFRGS). The desertification of the Cerrado: Hotter, drier … deadlier&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/cerrado-desertification-savanna-could-collapse-within-30-years-says-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bills before Brazil Congress slammed for rewarding Amazon land grabbers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/bills-before-brazil-congress-slammed-for-rewarding-amazon-land-grabbers/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Apr 2021 18:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fernanda Wenzel]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil and Latin America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forests, Governance, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Reform, Land Speculation, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Imagine you have invaded a public land in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest, cut the forest down and, after all that, you get the papers that certify you as the rightful owner of that area. According to experts, that’s what’s going to happen with the passage of two bills currently before the Brazilian Congress. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Imagine you have invaded a public land in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest, cut the forest down and, after all that, you get the papers that certify you as the rightful owner of that area. According to experts, that’s what’s going to happen with the passage of two bills currently before the Brazilian Congress. Both proposals have a common root: Executive Order 910, known as MP 910 or MP of Grilagem, from the local term for a land grabber. The executive order was signed in 2019 by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. As it wasn&#8217;t approved on time by Congress, however, the rule expired in May last year. Legislators came up with two new pieces of legislation to replace it: bills 2633 and 510. The new legislation would apply to so-called federal public forests, areas that belong to the Union and haven’t been designated for any specific purpose yet, such as for conservation units, Indigenous territories or land reform settlements, for instance. According to IPAM, the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, almost 19 million hectares (47 million acres) of land in the Amazon fits this description — an area nearly twice the size of South Korea. Almost 80% of it is already illegally claimed by private owners through the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), a self-declared land register that anyone can fill out online. According to Philip Fearnside, an ecologist at the National Institute for Research in Amazonia (INPA), this is the first step toward legalizing land invasions. &#8220;These are illegal operators who&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/bills-before-brazil-congress-slammed-for-rewarding-amazon-land-grabbers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-241648</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Facebook enabling Amazon land grabbing, deforestation, finds investigation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/facebook-enabling-amazon-land-grabbing-deforestation-investigation/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Mar 2021 20:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Branford and Thais Borges]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Conservation and Amazon Illegal Deforestation]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Governance, Green, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Social Justice, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The illegal sale of protected land in the Brazilian Amazon has been going on for years, but a new BBC report got deeply inside the criminal network and found some land grabbers advertising on Facebook.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a powerful new documentary broadcast on 26 February, entitled Selling the Amazon, BBC Brasil went undercover to show how illegal land grabbers are moving in on public land in the Brazilian Amazon, including within protected areas — clearing rainforest and selling plots to ranchers at highly inflated prices. In a modern twist that is attracting international attention, the documentary showed plots of public land being openly advertised on Facebook. Illegally advertising the sale of public land in the Amazon on websites is not new. In a groundbreaking book Who Clears the Land Owns It, authors Mauricio Torres (a regular Mongabay contributor), Juan Doblas and Daniela Fernandes Alarcon reported how in June 2016 various real estate companies were doing Internet advertising to sell 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) in Jacareacanga, in Pará state. The ad text made it clear that the property was located on public land, though the exact location wasn’t given. The 2016 advertisement, in disregard of the rule of law, instructed would-be purchasers how they could get round legislation enshrined in Brazil’s 1988 Constitution that limits the size of individual plots regularized under the government’s land reform program to 1,500 hectares. Potential buyers could, the ad suggested, pretend to divide the huge area into dozens of smaller plots of 1,500 hectares, each formally owned by a laranja (literally translated as an “orange” but meaning a “stooge”). By so doing, the purchase would be legal in the eyes of the state, with 66 individuals “owning” smaller plots all within&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/facebook-enabling-amazon-land-grabbing-deforestation-investigation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-240187</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Digital land grab’ deprives traditional LatAm peoples of ancestral lands: Report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/digital-land-grab-deprives-traditional-latam-peoples-of-ancestral-lands-report/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Oct 2020 11:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Branford]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Conservation and Cerrado]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Cerrado, Colombia, Latin America, Paraguay, and South America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Deforestation, Finance, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, International Trade, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Reform, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Savannas, Saving Rainforests, Soy, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional People, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Georeferencing, a digital process for registering land ownership, is now widespread in South America, but it is high-tech that can be used by landgrabbers and companies to obtain deeds to collective ancestral lands.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cargill&#8217;s grain terminal in Santarém in the Brazilian Amazon. The World Bank is helping finance georeferencing in South America, a high-tech tool that is helping facilitate landgrabbing, according to a GRAIN report. Image courtesy of Walter Guimarães Georeferencing — a digital mapping technique increasingly employed by South American governments to register land ownership — is being regularly used by landgrabbers and companies to expel traditional communities from ancestral lands occupied for decades or even centuries, according to a report by GRAIN, an NGO that works with peasant communities around the world. The innovative technology is also allowing a few powerful actors in the international financial sector to play a decisive expanding role in the transformation of large tracts of tropical rainforest and savanna into agricultural lands. Georeferencing originates with a digital image, — an aerial photo, scanned geologic map or topographic map, for example — then adds geographic information to the image so that GIS or mapping software can “place” the image in a real-world location. When this digital process is used exclusively, and not coupled with more traditional surveying techniques, the process lacks confirmation via ground truthing, risking fraud. Land ownership registration in South America has been chaotic since colonial times, leading to many, sometimes violent, conflicts between Indigenous groups and traditional peoples, and a variety of outside land claimants encroaching on ancestral territories. The lack of centralized governmental land registration systems offers landgrabbers an opening for claiming collective property occupied by traditional communities lacking legal deeds, with more than&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/digital-land-grab-deprives-traditional-latam-peoples-of-ancestral-lands-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-235990</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Harvard’s half-billion land stake in Brazil marred by conflict and abuse</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/harvards-half-billion-land-stake-in-brazil-marred-by-conflict-and-abuse/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Aug 2020 14:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maurício Angelo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cerrado]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Brazil, Cerrado, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Biodiversity Hotspots, Carbon Sequestration, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Farming, Food, Food Industry, Forest Carbon, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Grasslands, Green, Human Rights, Industrial Agriculture, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Research, Savannas, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[A recent report shows that one of the world’s most highly regarded, and wealthiest, universities invested heavily in land in Brazil’s Cerrado grasslands, where land-grabbing and other environmental crimes are rife.]]>
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							<![CDATA[After the 2008 economic crisis, Harvard University, one of the most respected educational institutions in the world, sought to reallocate its endowment funds to safer assets. It invested more than $1 billion in land in Brazil, Africa, Oceania, Eastern Europe and the United States. But a recent report shows that in Brazil, which accounts for almost half of Harvard&#8217;s total investment, at $450 million, most of the endowment&#8217;s acquired enterprises are territories occupied by land-grabbers in conflict with traditional communities and slave-descended quilombos in the Cerrado grasslands. The report, by GRAIN, a nonprofit that advocates for small farmers, and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos, a social justice NGO, also links these lands to incidents of deforestation and death threats. Most of the properties are speculative investments; the land, even when unproductive, is considered a safe investment in times of crisis or otherwise. To date, the university&#8217;s efforts to divest from these enterprises have been unsuccessful. It owns a total of 405,000 hectares (1 million acres) — nearly 5,000 times the size of the Harvard campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts — spread across about 40 farms. Most are located in the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, in the zone of the Cerrado known as Matopiba. It’s a region dominated by agribusiness and that has, in recent years, seen extreme levels of illegal deforestation and rural violence. When contacted by Mongabay, Harvard University&#8217;s press office stated it &#8220;does not comment on specific investments.&#8221; Map of Harvard&#8217;s land acquisitions in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/harvards-half-billion-land-stake-in-brazil-marred-by-conflict-and-abuse/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-233979</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indigenous best Amazon stewards, but only when property rights assured: Study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/indigenous-best-amazon-stewards-but-only-when-property-rights-assured-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Aug 2020 17:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Branford]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Conservation, Amazon Illegal Deforestation, and Global Forests]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Grabbing, Land Reform, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Law Enforcement, Logging, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Social Conflict, Social Justice, Tropical Deforestation, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[The historical record shows that Indigenous reserves are only safe from invasion by illegal deforesters once fully protected by government — protections rapidly eroding in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.]]>
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							<![CDATA[An Indigenous woman weaving anklets on her son. A clash of cultures in the Amazon threatens Indigenous lands and the rainforest. Image by Antônio Carlos Moura, s/d. “The xapiri [shamanic spirits] have defended the forest since it first came into being. Our ancestors have never devastated it because they kept the spirits by their side,” declares Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, who belongs to the 27,000-strong Yanomami people living in the very north of Brazil. He is expressing a commonly held Indigenous belief that they — the original peoples on the land, unlike the “white” Amazon invaders — are the ones most profoundly committed to forest protection. The Yanomami shaman reveals the reason: “We know well that without trees nothing will grow on the hardened and blazing ground.” Now Brazil’s Indigenous people have gained scientific backing for their strongly held belief from two American academics. In a study published this month in the PNAS journal, entitled Collective property rights reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, two political scientists, Kathryn Baragwanath, from the University of California San Diego, and Ella Bayi, at the Department of Political Science, Columbia University, provide statistical proof of the Indigenous claim that they are the more effective forest guardians. In their study, the researchers use comprehensive statistical data to show that Indigenous populations can effectively curb deforestation — but only if and when their full property rights over their territories are recognized by civil authorities in a process called homologação in Portuguese, or homologation in English. A Tapirapé&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/indigenous-best-amazon-stewards-but-only-when-property-rights-assured-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New report asks, do land titles help poor farmers?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/new-report-asks-do-land-titles-help-poor-farmers/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jul 2020 13:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, Community Development, Community Forests, Conservation, Corporations, Culture, Deforestation, Development, Environment, Forests, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Reform, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Mining, NGOs, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Forest Management, and Traditional People]]>
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							<![CDATA[Companies and governments are pushing for the privatization of land around the world as a way to get at economically valuable resources, according to a recent report from the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank based in California. But such moves can disenfranchise Indigenous and local communities, without regard for the support the land provides [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Companies and governments are pushing for the privatization of land around the world as a way to get at economically valuable resources, according to a recent report from the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank based in California. But such moves can disenfranchise Indigenous and local communities, without regard for the support the land provides to their livelihoods, said Frederic Mousseau, the report&#8217;s lead author. &#8220;[In] many places around the world, you have so many uses of land beyond the notion of economic value,&#8221; Mousseau, policy director at the Oakland Institute, said in an interview. Communally managed spaces provide wood, medicines, game and fish to these groups, he said. &#8220;When [proponents of privatization] talk about unlocking the economic value of land,&#8221; Mousseau added, &#8220;they don&#8217;t talk about this value.&#8221; A woman takes her canoe through Inle Lake in Myanmar. Image © FAO/Giuseppe Bizzarri. The report examines case studies in six countries where politicians and agencies have pressed for individual land titles to &#8220;unlock the economic potential&#8221; of communally and customarily held lands. The authors include examples of what amounts to land grabbing by governments, such as the threats to Indigenous reserves from the highest office in Brazil. &#8220;There is no [I]ndigenous territory where there aren&#8217;t minerals,&#8221; Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said, according to a report by Survival International cited by the Oakland Institute. &#8220;Gold, tin and magnesium are in these lands, especially in the Amazon, the richest area in the world. I&#8217;m not getting into this nonsense of defending land&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/new-report-asks-do-land-titles-help-poor-farmers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Illegal farms on indigenous lands get whitewashed under Bolsonaro administration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/illegal-farms-on-indigenous-lands-get-whitewashed-under-bolsonaro-administration/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jun 2020 15:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Bruno FonsecaRafael Oliveira]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Cattle, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Logging, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Uncontacted Tribes, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[An exclusive study shows that 114 properties have been certified inside indigenous territories awaiting demarcation in the Brazilian Amazon, spurred in large part by a recent statute that leaves these reserves unprotected from such illegal land grabs. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[The administration of President Jair Bolsonaro has legitimized more than a hundred farms established illegally inside indigenous territories in the Brazilian Amazon, most of them certified following a recent rule change. That was the finding from an unprecedented study by the investigative reporting outlet Agência Pública, which puts the combined area of indigenous lands occupied in this way at 250,000 hectares (620,000 acres), or about the size of Luxembourg. Meanwhile, Bolsonaro has not ratified a single new indigenous territory since taking office at the start of 2019. Indigenous territories are theoretically protected from land grabs such as these under a 2012 statute of FUNAI, the federal agency for indigenous affairs. This protection extends to unratified indigenous lands, which are those awaiting a presidential decree as the last step in the demarcation process for official recognition. But since the start of the administration up until April 22, the federal government approved certification for 42 farms through the land management system SIGEF, despite the fact that they overlap onto unratified indigenous lands. Then, on April 22, FUNAI issued a new statute authorizing the certification of private properties inside unratified indigenous areas, and that number surged: 72 new certifications were authorized in less than a month — an average of two per day. Landowners are required by law to register their properties on the SIGEF system run by the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA). Without the certification, they are unable to register their land at local registrars, get legal financing,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/illegal-farms-on-indigenous-lands-get-whitewashed-under-bolsonaro-administration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A bid to legitimize invasions of Brazil’s indigenous lands faces a court challenge</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/a-bid-to-legitimize-invasions-of-brazils-indigenous-lands-faces-a-court-challenge/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jun 2020 15:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Caio de Freitas Paes]]>
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						<![CDATA[Xavier Bartaburu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Logging, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Uncontacted Tribes, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Land grabbers, landed estate owners and even oil companies stand to benefit from a new guideline released by FUNAI, the federal indigenous affairs agency, which opens up 237 indigenous territories in Brazil for sale, subdivision and speculation. 
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							<![CDATA[A court in Brazil is set to hear the latest case in a growing onslaught by the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro against the country’s indigenous peoples and their territories. The legal wrangle centers on Resolution No. 9, issued at the end of April by FUNAI, the federal agency for indigenous affairs, which legalizes registration of properties inside reserves that are in the demarcation process throughout Brazil. The regulations was authored by two advocates for agribusiness inside the government and disregards all indigenous territories not ratified or registered by the federal government, affecting 237 reserves that are still undergoing the demarcation process. Together, these lands span 9.8 million hectares (24 million acres) — an area the size of Iceland — and would under Regulation No. 9 be open for sale, subdivision and speculation. Half of these reserves do not yet have defined boundaries. On May 14, the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) in the Amazonian state of Mato Grosso requested the immediate annulment of the directive. The request will be heard by a court. “Resolution No. 9 oversteps FUNAI’s own constitutional mission, which is to support and protect the indigenous. It is an illegal, unconstitutional and inopportune measure, to say the least,” said Ricardo Pael, the attorney general for Mato Grosso and one of the officials mounting the legal challenge against the federal government. Environmentalists and nonprofit organizations agree. Juliana de Paula Batista, a lawyer with the nongovernmental Socioenvironmental Institute (ISA), says the regulation could be used to pursue “certification for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/a-bid-to-legitimize-invasions-of-brazils-indigenous-lands-faces-a-court-challenge/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Loggers attack Brazilian environmental official in Amazon; Bolsonaro silent</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/loggers-attack-brazilian-environmental-official-in-amazon-bolsonaro-silent/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 May 2020 13:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue BranfordThais Borges]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Crime, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Logging, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Threats To Rainforests, and Tropical Deforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[IBAMA officials, while trying to halt deforestation in Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Reserve, were threatened and assaulted by illegal loggers. The Bolsonaro administration is largely unresponsive. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[Heavy equipment used in illegal operation, destroyed by IBAMA, Brazil&#8217;s environmental agency. Such expensive equipment is clearly being paid for not by &#8220;wildcat loggers&#8221; but by well financed operators. Image courtesy of IBAMA. A large group of angry loggers set fire to a bridge in Pará state in the Brazilian Amazon in April, forcing vehicles belonging to IBAMA, the country’s environmental agency, to halt, preventing its mission to protect an indigenous reserve from ongoing illegal deforestation. The unruly mob surrounded the IBAMA staff, threatening them. Givanildo Lima, the official in charge of the operation, tried to reason with the gang but, in the midst of mayhem, someone hit him on the head with a bottle of cachaça, Brazilian white rum, knocking him to the ground. He required hospital treatment. Mongabay contacted Lima, but he said he could not talk to the press due to a ban imposed by the Ministry of the Environment. Various videos of the incident, probably shot by the loggers, were posted on the internet. Mongabay has taken episodes from these videos, some of them long and rambling, and produced a more concise version. The clash illustrates the degree to which illegal loggers and land grabbers, who openly admit they feel empowered by President Jair Bolsonaro’s inflammatory rhetoric, believe they are free to violently advance their interests. Mongabay contacted IBAMA’s Communication Department, the only body authorized to speak to reporters, for comment. It replied saying that it had forwarded Mongabay’s request to the Ministry of Environment, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/loggers-attack-brazilian-environmental-official-in-amazon-bolsonaro-silent/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/brazil-opens-38000-square-miles-of-indigenous-lands-to-outsiders/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 May 2020 11:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mauricio TorresSue Branford]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Cattle, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forests, Governance, Green, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Land Use Change, Logging, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Saving Rainforests, Social Justice, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, Uncontacted Tribes, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[A sweeping policy change by the Bolsonaro government opens unregistered ancestral indigenous lands to landgrabbers, loggers, ranchers, and soy growers, with huge risk for the Amazon.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Experts fear the impacts the new FUNAI policy, with it potentially resulting in a widespread invasion by outsiders of remote Amazon ancestral indigenous lands that the Brazilian government has failed to recognize officially as required by law, despite having more than forty years to carry out the process. Image by Mauricio Torres / Mongabay. With Brazil’s attention focused on the Coronavirus soaring case load and death toll, the Jair Bolsonaro government has introduced major modifications to the country’s indigenous land policy. Announced as a big step forward, the new rules will greatly facilitate the takeover of unregistered ancestral indigenous lands by landgrabbers, permitting use by loggers, cattle ranchers, soy growers, and other outsiders. The measure opens up 9.8 million hectares (37,830 square miles) of land to these and other economic activities — land still not recognized as indigenous, as required by Brazil’s 1988 Constitution. Critics fear these wide-ranging land use changes will devastate the lives of thousands of indigenous people and result in significant deforestation that will push the Amazon forest toward an irreversible climate change tipping point, converting a large portion of it to degraded savanna and releasing massive amounts of climate-destabilizing greenhouse gases. Indigenous land rights have been under constant attack by the government since Bolsonaro took office in January 2019. Even before he took over, the presidential campaigner hinted that he would grab back land from the Indians. Recently, Fantástico, a hugely popular Sunday TV program aired in Brazil by TV Globo, showed footage of IBAMA environmental&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/brazil-opens-38000-square-miles-of-indigenous-lands-to-outsiders/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New database wrangles data on land rights projects around the globe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/new-database-wrangles-data-on-land-rights-projects-around-the-globe/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Apr 2020 10:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community Development, Conservation, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Industry, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Reform, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Law, Mapping, Natural Resources, NGOs, Pollution, Resource Conflict, Resource Curse, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Land Portal Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands, recently released what it’s calling “the largest global database of land and property rights projects.” In around a decade of existence, the Land Portal Foundation has worked to pull together the often disparate information on these projects from its partners around the world so [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Land Portal Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands, recently released what it’s calling “the largest global database of land and property rights projects.” In around a decade of existence, the Land Portal Foundation has worked to pull together the often disparate information on these projects from its partners around the world so that researchers, donors and campaigners have a better idea of how these projects are transpiring, said Laura Meggiolaro, the organization’s team leader. But too often, they found, information on one project was siloed from those working on another project, even as the Land Portal team gathered the details of hundreds of different projects. Users, Meggiolaro said, were eager “to know who is doing what where.” Women from the Anangu Quichua community performing a traditional song and dance in Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadoran Amazon. Image by Jeremy Hance and Tiffany Roufs/Mongabay. With an eye toward that goal, the Land Portal launched this new database in March 2020, featuring more than 900 projects from the Global Map of Donors, a network of organizations working on land tenure projects, and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s list of projects on land tenure. Those resources are a start, Meggiolaro said, but “We aim to ingest many more projects.” In short, she added, they want to “democratize” land information. “We’re working with people that are defending land rights. They are struggling for or defending the most marginalized, so they need more information,” she said. “They need data for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/new-database-wrangles-data-on-land-rights-projects-around-the-globe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>NGOs charge Brazil’s Bolsonaro with risk of indigenous ‘genocide’ at UN</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/ngos-charge-brazils-bolsonaro-with-indigenous-genocide-at-un/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2020 11:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Branford]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Conservation, Controversial, Crime, Culture, Deforestation, Environment, Ethnocide, Forest Destruction, Forests, Gold Mining, Governance, Green, Human Rights, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Speculation, Law Enforcement, Mining, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Uncontacted Tribes]]>
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							<![CDATA[At a UN event, Brazil was accused of Amazon deforestation policies leading toward “ethnocide” against indigenous peoples, and “genocide” against uncontacted indigenous groups.]]>
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							<![CDATA[An isolated indigenous group in Acre state, Brazil. Image by Gleilson Miranda / Governo do Acre under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. “The Moxihatetea [uncontacted indigenous group] is vigilant and they want to keep away from the Whites. They don’t know who the gold panners (garimpeiros) are and they don’t want them to approach them. They flee deep into the forest to get away from them,” said Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa during his address at the opening of the 43rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 2 March. Wearing a traditional headdress and speaking in the Yanomami language, Kopenawa expressed deep concern for the future of the Moxihatetea, an isolated indigenous group living within Yanomami Park, an indigenous reserve located in the very north of Brazil, near the frontier with Venezuela, and covering 9,664,975 hectares (37,317 square miles). “The gold panners began to steal their food — their cassava, their bananas, their sugar cane. … The Moxihatetea attacked them with bows and arrows, but the gold panners, more violent, reacted firing at them with their shotguns,” Kopenawa told an international audience. “The Moxihatetea fled higher up the river, but there are gold panners there too, by the Catrimani River. The Indians are surrounded. I don’t know them personally. I’ve only seen their huts from the air. But I’m very worried. Soon they will be exterminated. There’s no doubt the gold panners will kill them with their shotguns and their illnesses, their malaria, their&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/ngos-charge-brazils-bolsonaro-with-indigenous-genocide-at-un/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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