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#News: Indonesia’s Supreme Court rejects #NewGuinea #indigenous Awyu’s appeal to end a 36,000ha #palmoil plantation on their ancestral #rainforest. A decision experts warn may lead to more violations #corruption #IndigenousRights #BoycottPalmOil #WestPapua https://www.mynrination.com/indonesia/2024/11/02/indigenous-group-loses-bid-to-block-indonesia-palm-oil-project
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#News: On Oct 20, former military general Prabowo Subianto with an atrocious record on #humanrights was made president of #Indonesia. The months leading up to this were marked by extreme violence, #landgrabbing for #palmoil and #indigenousrights violations https://thediplomat.com/2024/10/prabowo-heralds-an-uncertain-future-for-fundamental-freedoms-in-indonesia/

#News: Report finds that #indigenous people in #Brazil have a high rate of suicide due to expansion of oil and gas, illegal #goldmining, #palmoil #soy and #meat #deforestation of their ancestral land story by Monica Piccinini via @thecanaryuk #mentalhealth #indigenousrights https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2024/10/16/brazil-indigenous-people-suicide/

#News: Despite #Indonesia's moratorium on #palmoil #deforestation, the #Awyu tribe of #Papua are fighting in court to cancel #palmoil permits on ancestral lands. Green groups fear the government may not uphold the moratorium #PalmOil #IndigenousRights #BoycottPalmOil https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/how-indonesias-deforestation-persists-despite-moratorium-2024-06-20/ Story: @reutersinstitute

"Agriculture, cattle rearing, mining, oil extraction &logging are all contributing factors {to degradation}.Loss of the Amazon, which is happening at a pace of roughly 4 soccer fields per minute, has already reached a point where some portions of the forest can no longer regenerate & have become grasslands. Directly affected are 47 million ppl living in the Amazon region who depend on the forest for their livelihoods, fresh water & other resources. #IndigenousRights #Ecocide

#News: The Pan-Amazon Social Forum of #Indigenous communities share their plans to protect the #Amazon #rainforest and have criticised #climate talks as being Global North focused #IndigenousRights #ClimateAction #BoycottGold #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife via Environmental Health News https://www.ehn.org/amazon-rainforest-inhabitants-share-plan-to-save-their-home-2668657087.html

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

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

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

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