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	<title>Forest Policy Research &#187; Indigenous rights</title>
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		<title>Brazil: Cows are the ultimate killer of both the land and its traditional peoples</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-cows-are-the-ultimate-killer-of-both-the-land-and-its-traditional-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-cows-are-the-ultimate-killer-of-both-the-land-and-its-traditional-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deforestation policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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Cattle ranching is the biggest cause of deforestation, not only in  the Amazon, but worldwide. The report reveals that the Brazilian  government is a silent partner in these crimes by providing loans to  and holding shares in the three biggest players – Bertin, JBS and  Marfrig – that are driving expansion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Legislation of Genocide legitimizes stolen land!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-legislation-of-genocide-a-legitimization-of-stolen-land/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
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		<title>Brazil: Economic development rainforest creates opposite affect</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-economic-development-in-the-rainforest-creates-the-opposite-affect/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/12/brazil-economic-development-in-the-rainforest-creates-the-opposite-affect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deforestation rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology of deforestation]]></category>

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The argument for deforestation has always been that the economic  benefits to local communities are too great to overlook. But now a new  study in the current issue of Science suggests that&#8217;s not true.  A team of researchers from Portugal, France and Britain studied nearly  300 Brazilian municipalities on the frontier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speak out! Oppose genocide against 30,000 Peaceful Peruvian indigenous peoples</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/11/5543/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/11/5543/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military forestry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Send a Message to the President of Peru:
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End this atrocity!



Send a Message to the President of Peru to end this atrocity!
http://amazonwatch.org/peru-action-alert.php
Update: Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango has been granted asylum in Nicaragua after an arrest warrant was issued in his name on charges of sedition, conspiracy and rebellion following clashes between Amazonian Indians and Peruvian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa: Only 2% of tropical forests not yet stolen from traditional 	peoples</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/africa-only-2-of-tropical-forests-not-yet-stolen-from-traditional-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/07/africa-only-2-of-tropical-forests-not-yet-stolen-from-traditional-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Less than 2 percent of Africa&#8217;s tropical forests are under community  control, hindering efforts to slow deforestation and alleviate rural  poverty, reports a new assessment from the International Tropical  Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Rights and Resources Initiative  (RRI), a global coalition of non-governmental and community  organizations.
Please value the writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: New Greenpeace report: Slaughtering the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/02/brazil-new-greenpeace-report-slaughtering-the-amazon-2/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/06/02/brazil-new-greenpeace-report-slaughtering-the-amazon-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slaughtering the Amazon,  charges that major international companies are unwittingly driving the  deforestation of the Amazon rainforest through their purchases of  leather, beef and other products supplied from the Brazil cattle  industry. Greenpeace found that Brazilian beef companies are important  suppliers of raw materials used by leading global brands, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: Yosemite Park and its origins as modern day 	conservation-based genocide</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/california-yosemite-park-and-its-origins-as-modern-day-conservation-based-genocide/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/california-yosemite-park-and-its-origins-as-modern-day-conservation-based-genocide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 07:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenwashing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Parks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[


Lafayette Bunnell, American explorer, Yosemite on March 21, 1851: Accompanying him that day was one of the most ferocious militias in western American history, the Mariposa Battalion, commanded by James Savage. A veteran of Indian wars, Savage was there with one blunt aim: to rid Yosemite of its natives. Bunnell, who is remembered today largely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexico: Drug war is destroying forests, making a drug ring of 	traditional peoples</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/mexico-drug-war-is-destroying-forests-making-a-drug-ring-of-traditional-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/05/10/mexico-drug-war-is-destroying-forests-making-a-drug-ring-of-traditional-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a silence as pregnant as his gaze, the Indian ends up talking: &#34;They come; they kill the trees and afterwards we have to choose: either we leave our lands or we stay to grow their drugs.&#34; The region with the richest biodiversity in North America is located in Mexico&#39;s far north, at 1420 meters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada: Native peoples may win back some logging rights, but will 	they log it?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/04/01/canada-native-peoples-may-win-back-some-logging-rights-but-will-they-log-it/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/04/01/canada-native-peoples-may-win-back-some-logging-rights-but-will-they-log-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First Nations could soon be granted access to Prince Albert timber
rights currently managed by Domtar, the owner of the area’s shuttered
pulp mill, the Saskatchewan Party government said Monday. Energy and
Resources Minister Bill Boyd said Domtar and Weyerhaeuser, which
previously operated the mill, have agreed to go through a formal
process to re-work the Prince Albert forest management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Nations to use social networking to defend indigenous peoples 	from extractive industries</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/31/united-nations-to-use-social-networking-to-defend-indigenous-peoples-from-extractive-industries/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/31/united-nations-to-use-social-networking-to-defend-indigenous-peoples-from-extractive-industries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Rights of Trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[United Nations is looking to set up a global network by which indigenous peoples (IPs) can help each other respond to violations of their rights, mainly by extractive industries. Eighty-five IP representatives from Asia, Africa, the Pacific, Europe and Russia, Arctic, Latin and North America, as well as experts, have gathered in Manila for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia: Wealthiest people in the nation are the ones funding 	illegal logging in Kedah</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/28/malaysia-wealthiest-people-in-the-nation-are-the-ones-funding-illegal-logging-in-kedah/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/28/malaysia-wealthiest-people-in-the-nation-are-the-ones-funding-illegal-logging-in-kedah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The rich are behind syndicates running illegal logging activities in the state. Kedah Razak came to this conclusion after authorities seized several heavy machineries in an operation against illegal logging recently. &#8220;Only people with lots of money can afford such expensive equipments. Kampung people can only spare the parang and axe,&#8221; he said after chairing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Support for Genocide, Ecocide &amp; Imperialism: Words of 	Brazilian leader Silva</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/28/brazil-support-for-genocide-ecocide-imperialism-words-of-brazilian-leader-silva/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/28/brazil-support-for-genocide-ecocide-imperialism-words-of-brazilian-leader-silva/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chinese colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goverment does nothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil has policies aimed at conserving the Amazon forest and its priceless natural heritage. But the forest is also home to a culturally diverse population of 25 million, including some 170 indigenous peoples, along with hundreds of communities of rubber tappers, hunters and gatherers, and riverbank dwellers. Preservationist approaches alone are ineffective in tackling deforestation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gambia: Please overlook profit and consider repercussions of 	deforestation on society!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/gambia-please-overlook-profit-and-consider-repercussions-of-deforestation-on-society/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/gambia-please-overlook-profit-and-consider-repercussions-of-deforestation-on-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gambia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ecosystem management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each time one walks along the streets, one is bound to see one or two trucks carrying timber heading towards various destinations. It is no crime to venture into a trade that is legal, but it is important for those involved in such a business to overlook profit and consider the repercussions of deforestation on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congo: Many wars converge at farthest navigable point upstream, capital city Kisangani</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/congo-many-wars-converge-at-farthest-navigable-point-upstream-from-the-capital-city-kinshasa/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/24/congo-many-wars-converge-at-farthest-navigable-point-upstream-from-the-capital-city-kinshasa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chinese colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military forestry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville or Stanleystad, (population 500,000) is a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa and the provincial capital of  Tshopo Province. Here, it appears as a tan area on the banks of the river. Kisangani is located where the Lualaba River becomes the Congo River north of the Boyoma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia: UN suggests racism &amp; genocide will again prevail if REDD 	oriented forest conservation occurs</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/23/indonesia-un-suggests-racism-genocide-will-again-prevail-if-redd-oriented-forest-conservation-occurs/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/23/indonesia-un-suggests-racism-genocide-will-again-prevail-if-redd-oriented-forest-conservation-occurs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate policy forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REDD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a letter released today, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination expressed concern that a scheme to promote forest conservation in Indonesia via the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism could increase conflict over land if the government doles out forest-carbon concessions in the same manner that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Supreme Court sides with Indigenous peoples in Raposa Serra 	do Sol land dispute</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/brazil-supreme-court-sides-with-indigenous-peoples-in-raposa-serra-do-sol-land-dispute/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/brazil-supreme-court-sides-with-indigenous-peoples-in-raposa-serra-do-sol-land-dispute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Court halts logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solutions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil&#8217;s Supreme Court sided Thursday with Amazonian Indians in a land dispute that some have called critical for determining the future of the rainforest that sprawls the size of Western Europe. The court ruling upholds the Raposa Serra do Sol reservation for 18,000 Indians who lay claim to their ancestral land, despite a handful of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peru: New Marginal Highway creates mad scramble for land</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/peru-new-marginal-highway-creates-mad-scramble-for-land/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/peru-new-marginal-highway-creates-mad-scramble-for-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land of the lawless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[road as vector]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[San Martín region in northern Peru is a large swathe of tropical land the size of Costa Rica where the eastern foothills of the Andes merge with the Amazon jungle. It used to be best known for drugs and terrorism: its rugged hillsides were perfect for coca, the raw material for cocaine, and as hideouts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiji: Native Land Trust Board forces loggers into zero-cut until 	issues are resolved</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/fiji-native-land-trust-board-forces-loggers-into-zero-cut-until-issues-are-resolved/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/fiji-native-land-trust-board-forces-loggers-into-zero-cut-until-issues-are-resolved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gov does good]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Native Land Trust Board has suspended the issuance and renewals of logging licenses for sawmillers. &#8220;NLTB will not process any new licenses or renewal of license until the issue is resolved by the court of Fiji,&#8221; he said. Fiji Saw Millers Association spokesman Jay Dayal said as a consequence, three major sawmillers would come to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia: Greenpeace Direct Action on destroyer / big sinner: Sinar Mas</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/indonesia-greenpeace-does-direct-action-on-huge-destroyer-big-sinner-sinar-mas/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/20/indonesia-greenpeace-does-direct-action-on-huge-destroyer-big-sinner-sinar-mas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pulp issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Activists said they were punched and kicked by guards and police as they tried to protest against alleged illegal land-clearing in Indonesia&#8217;s vast eastern Papua region and on Borneo island. &#8220;The excessive violence today by Sinar Mas security is testament to the way this company does business,&#8221; Greenpeace Southeast Asia Forest campaigner Bustar Maitar said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cameroon: Indigenous of Kupe-Muanenguba region are told they are the 	support, manure and fuel of State authority</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/18/cameroon-indigenous-of-kupe-muanenguba-region-are-told-they-are-the-support-manure-and-fuel-of-state-authority/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/18/cameroon-indigenous-of-kupe-muanenguba-region-are-told-they-are-the-support-manure-and-fuel-of-state-authority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cameroon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poorly planned development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Traditional chiefs of the 164 villages in Kupe-Muanenguba Division of
the South West Region on 14 March 2009, resolved to mobilize their
population to acquire community forests, harness the abundant natural
forest resources, sanctuary, forest reserves and tourist attractions
for the general development of the area.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200903170726.html

Minister of Forest and Wildlife and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suriname: Will REDD destroy or preserve indigenous cultures &amp; forests they depend on?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/suriname-will-climate-policy-in-redd-destroy-or-preserve-indigenous-cultures-forests-they-dependon/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/suriname-will-climate-policy-in-redd-destroy-or-preserve-indigenous-cultures-forests-they-dependon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Suriname]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate policy forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[encroachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local control of resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[REDD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forest Peoples Programme recently published a briefing, titled “IndigenousPeoples’ Rights and  REDD: The Case of the Saramaka People v.Suriname“. The briefing asks  the question: To what extent should or must REDD account for and  respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights? FPP’s conclusion is clear: “attention to indigenous peoples’ rights  is not only desirable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Aussie Greens demand to know details of logging and mining 	on Tiwi islands</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-aussie-greens-demand-to-know-details-of-logging-and-mining-on-tiwi-islands/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/16/australia-aussie-greens-demand-to-know-details-of-logging-and-mining-on-tiwi-islands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal logging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greens Senator Rachael Siewert has rejected concerns a Senate inquiry into mining and forestry operations on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory is a waste of time or money. Senator Siewert says the Greens have concerns about the transparency of forestry operations on the islands. &#8220;There&#8217;s been ongoing concerns about the extent of logging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solomon Islands: An &#8216;academic&#8217; view on why indigenous peoples / 	citizens deforest?</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/solomon-islands-an-academic-view-on-why-indigenous-peoples-citizens-deforest/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/solomon-islands-an-academic-view-on-why-indigenous-peoples-citizens-deforest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Solomon Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boom bust economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trees were felled because they are not harmful and do not have rebellious biological features and even cannot shed tears and cry out in agony. In here, our own people realised and recognised trees as being the only very accessible component of the environment that possess the potentiality creating riches without greater sweat and effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uruguay: New pulp mills and plantations will devastate traditional 	land use, destroy biodiversity</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/uruguay-new-pulp-mills-and-plantations-will-devastate-traditional-land-use-destroy-biodiversity/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/15/uruguay-new-pulp-mills-and-plantations-will-devastate-traditional-land-use-destroy-biodiversity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uruguay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plantation destruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pulp issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Favorable timber growing conditions, a good business climate and a
stable political environment has attracted a number of European forest
companies to invest in Uruguay the past few years. The establishment
of fast-growing Eucalyptus and pine plantations could eventually
support two or three new pulpmills, according to the WRQ.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://www.newsreelnetwork.com/index.php/2009/03/12/expanding-timber-plantation-resources-in-uruguay-attract-pulpmill-investments-from-european-forest-companies-reports-wrq/

There is currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia: Asking for the rights of Orang Asli (aborigines) to be 	returned to them</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/13/malaysia-asking-for-the-rights-of-orang-asli-aborigines-to-be-returned-to-them/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/13/malaysia-asking-for-the-rights-of-orang-asli-aborigines-to-be-returned-to-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Malaysia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local control of resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protection culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, has asked for the rights of the orang asli (aborigines) to be returned to them, especially with regards to their land which had been seized. The state had come to a stage where the acknowledgement of the rights of every Selangorian has become the basic principle of its administration. “This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Panama: Indigenous Bocas people to fight till death to protect 	culture &amp; land from cattle &amp; mega projects</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/10/panama-indigenous-bocas-people-to-fight-till-death-to-protect-culture-land-from-cattle-mega-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/10/panama-indigenous-bocas-people-to-fight-till-death-to-protect-culture-land-from-cattle-mega-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Panama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[encroachers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goverment does nothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grazing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mega-projects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The curtain of 2009 opened on a heart wrenching scene of conflict over
the native people&#8217;s longtime demand for respect of their territory and
natural resources. As they watched heavy machinery demolish their
houses and tear up their land, residents of San San Druy in the
northern province of Bocas del Toro brandished machetes, bows and
arrows, spears, and Molotov [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Columbia: Expanding tribal logging rights is for industry&#8217;s 	dream of one giant clearcut</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/10/british-columbia-expanding-tribal-logging-rights-is-for-industrys-dream-of-one-giant-clearcut/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/10/british-columbia-expanding-tribal-logging-rights-is-for-industrys-dream-of-one-giant-clearcut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[British Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deane's Commentary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Government corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[timber industry decline]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Two years ago it was disclosed by Greenpeace that in the Congo sacks of sugar, grain and hand tools were all that it took for timber companies to purchase and destroy the forest lands owned by unique tribes. Too often this is the type of exploitation that our global civilization is built upon. And keeping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California: RIP: Wukchumni elder Melba Whitebird</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/california-rip-wukchumni-elder-melba-whitebird/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/california-rip-wukchumni-elder-melba-whitebird/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is with sorrow that we announce that Melba Whitebird, 60, Wukchumni elder and member of the SFK Advisory Board, passed away on Friday, Jan. 9. She was beautiful, intelligent, and talented. I have known Melba and her family since the 1970&#8217;s. Her funeral was filled with American Indian ceremony, prayers, and song that she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA: What makes America great is native species, native peoples &amp; 	Earth First!</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/usa-whats-makes-america-great-is-native-species-native-peoples-earth-first/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/08/usa-whats-makes-america-great-is-native-species-native-peoples-earth-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[USA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Direct Action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth First! History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Earth First! Roadshow will be crossing the country this spring
with the goal of renewing a grassroots ecological direct action
movement in the U.S. We are looking to network and collaborate with
groups, such as yours.

Two primary needs for us:
&#8211;Participation from your membership
&#8211;Funds to keep the Roadshow rolling. Will you help?
For more info on the roadshow: 330-423-1823
earthfirstroadshow@gmail.com [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congo: Gov decides to ramp up genocide &amp; exploitation of indigenous 	peoples territory</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/07/congo-gov-decides-to-ramp-up-genocide-exploitation-of-indigenous-peoples-territory/</link>
		<comments>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/07/congo-gov-decides-to-ramp-up-genocide-exploitation-of-indigenous-peoples-territory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boom bust economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[species extinction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Congolese government authorities are &#8230; signaling their intent to
backtrack on decisions and expand industrial logging activities in the
DRC,&#8221; a statement from Global Witness, Greenpeace and Rainforest
Foundation said.
Get full text; support writer, producer of the words:
http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=120531

&#8220;Such a move would &#8230; demonstrate a disregard for the rights of local
communities, undermine efforts to reduce deforestation and degradation
and thwart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia: Aboriginals to &#8216;benefit&#8217; from wood supply coming from 	stripping forest bare for Bauxite mine</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/05/australia-aboriginals-to-benefit-from-wood-supply-coming-from-stripping-forest-bare-for-bauxite-mine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Traditional owners have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a
logging company to harvest 850 hectares of timber in Arnhem land. The
Gumatj Corporation signed the deal with Forestry Tasmania today. The
Gumatj are traditional owners of land around the Gove Peninsula in
north east Arnhem land. Some of the timber will be used to build
houses for traditional owners.
Get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papua New Guinea: has created its first national conservation area</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/04/papua-new-guinea-has-created-its-first-national-conservation-area/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local control of resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Parks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea has created its first national conservation area. Environmentalists hope that the YUS Conservation Area will begin a new pattern in Papua New Guinea—and around the world. Unique in structure, the park is owned by 35 surrounding indigenous villages which have agreed unanimously to prohibit hunting, logging, mining, and other development within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: Forest Defending Catholic Rural Radio by Father Edilberto 	Sena in Santarem</title>
		<link>http://forestpolicyresearch.org/2009/03/03/brazil-forest-defending-catholic-rural-radio-by-father-edilberto-sena-in-santarem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deane Rimerman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen defenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fighting poverty & Deforestation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religious forest defense]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
For nine years, Father Sena has run a Catholic rural radio station in
his home town of Santarem which reaches at least 500,000 people in the
Amazon. He uses his station to highlight many of his campaigns. &#8220;I am
a human being and see what is happening there, and I am a native
Amazonian, so I can&#8217;t cross my [...]]]></description>
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