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Julie Wark on #WestPapua
Currently a critical situation in Paniai Region where the #Indonesian military have displaced large numbers of refugees.

"Indigenous peoples have been displaced from more than a million hectares of cleared rainforest to make way for transmigrants. Forest dwellers have been expelled to malaria-infested lower altitudes. Their rights are annulled by law."

#Indigenous #Indigenousrights
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/05/paniai-west-papua-politics-of-displacement/


"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

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