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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — President Joko Widodo recently issued Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in Indonesia more than 1 million hectares (2.47 million acres) of land titles, under his flagship social forestry program. As a result, the government has recognized IPLCs’ rights over 8 million hectares (19.77 million acres) of lands in Indonesia. These include various forms of social forestry titles, such as village forests, community forests, plantation forests and ancestral or customary forests. But the pace of recognition for IPLCs’ rights to their lands is not fast enoug...
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Unprecedented wildfires in Canada and parts of Amazonia last year were made at least three times more likely by climate change, a new report has found. Wildfires in Greece, where blazes are currently burning around Athens, were made twice as likely by climate change. The ‘State of Wildfires’ report - published by the University of East Anglia (UEA), the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), the Met Office and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) - is the first annual stocktake of extreme fires. It looks at those that took place between March 2023 and February 202...
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By Maxwell Radwin Indigenous communities across Brazil have suffered a wave of violence in recent weeks as the country reconsiders a controversial law that makes it harder to claim ancestral territory. The Supreme Court is studying a law that only recognizes territorial rights for Indigenous people if they occupied the land after a certain date. But critics say it delegitimizes many land claims and fuels conflicts with farmers, ranchers and private developers who see an opportunity to expand. “The right to traditionally occupied territory is an original right secured by the 1988 federal consti...
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Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest slowed by nearly half compared to the year before, according to government satellite data released on Wednesday. It’s the largest reduction since 2016, when officials began using the current method of measurement. In the past 12 months, the Amazon rainforest lost 4,300 square kilometres, an area roughly three times the size of London. That's a nearly 46 per cent decrease compared to the previous period. Brazil’s deforestation surveillance year runs from 1 August to 30 July. Still, much remains to be done to end the destruction and the month of July s...
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A central Dutch province is urgently warning parents not to take young children to a popular forest area following two recent close encounters with a wolf displaying “atypical and worrying” behaviour. The warning is the latest in an ongoing struggle between wolves and humans across Europe. Multiple countries have proposed killing wolves that are perceived as dangerous, much to the upset of animal rights activists who say they have a right to roam. At the end of last year, the European Commission proposed lighter protection for the wolf’s growing population, suggesting downgrading its protectio...
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By Claire Asher The Amazon’s most fertile, productive forests, which are critical for supplying Brazil’s agricultural region with rainfall, are also the most vulnerable to drought, according to recent research that has mapped drought resilience across the basin. An international team of researchers analyzed 20 years of satellite data to understand why some forests might be more resilient to drought than others and focused on the underlying mechanisms behind different responses of forests across the basin. The study, published in Nature, used water-table depth, soil fertility and tree height to...
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From January to mid-July, Slovakian authorities and hunters alike killed more than three dozen bears, leading to uproar among ecologists and activists. The authorities shot 30 so-called "problematic" bears, and hunters were allowed to hunt down another 11, Milan Boroš, the general director of Slovakia's State Nature Conservancy office, has announced. Last year, a series of attacks, some of them deadly, led to calls to reassess the protected status of bears in Slovakia and more widely across Central and Eastern Europe. Now, Slovakia’s far-right environment minister, Tomáš Taraba, wants to ensur...
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By Maxwell Radwin The lead up to Venezuela’s presidential election, scheduled for this Sunday, July 28, hasn’t been about the candidates’ experience or the viability of their policies. The focus has been on whether the elections will look anything close to free and fair. Critics have expressed concern about the disqualification of opposition candidates and the absence of outside electoral observers. President Nicolás Maduro is running for a third consecutive term despite overwhelming opposition to his regime, which came to power in 2013 as the successor to Hugo Chávez. This time around, Maduro...
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Climate change is increasing the susceptibility of the world's forests to stressors such as wildfires and pests, according to a new publication by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The Committee on Forestry (COFO), the FAO’s top forestry governing body, was tasked with identifying emerging policy and technical issues, seeking solutions, and advising the FAO on appropriate action. The resulting report reveals the vulnerability of forests worldwide and emphasises the role of innovation in achieving a sustainable future for the forestry sector. Climate change is m...
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By Maxwell Radwin A lawsuit has temporarily stalled construction on a controversial highway project in north-central Panama, which allegedly bypassed environmental regulations and could damage several protected areas along the Caribbean coast. The highway, known as the “Caribbean Corridor,” is supposed to travel 28.4 kilometers (17.6 miles) from the towns of Quebrada Ancha to María Chiquita, with the goal of increasing tourism and local commerce on the coast of Colón province. But the highway would also pass by three protected areas and didn’t carry out adequate studies to make sure they won’t...
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