#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