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Land Use/Forests

Amazon Accord Elusive, But Leadership Summit Generates Hope

August 11, 2023 News Editor Comments Off on Amazon Accord Elusive, But Leadership Summit Generates Hope

BELEM, Brazil, August 11, 2023, (ENS) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this week hosted a two-day regional summit of the eight Amazon River basin countries seeking a plan to save the world’s largest rainforest. At their meeting in Belem on August 8 and 9, the eight leaders had intended to reach consensus on issues from deforestation to sustainable development in the Amazon in the first such conference in 14 years. […]

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Police, Diplomats Form United Front for Endangered Wildlife

February 12, 2022 News Editor Comments Off on Police, Diplomats Form United Front for Endangered Wildlife

BEIJING, China, February 12, 2022 (ENS) – The endangered animals and plants protected by the global treaty known as CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, now have another layer of protection. It comes in the form of attention from the international police force Interpol, which is backing CITES in the enforcement of its regulations. […]

Land Use/Forests

Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories

December 3, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, December 3, 2021 (ENS) – The British Columbia government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales, BCTS, have pulled three more cutblocks from their sales plan in Argonaut Creek in central British Columbia on the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa, Syilx, Secwépemc and Sinixt nations. […]

Land Use/Forests

Indigenous Penan Block Logging on Their Ancestral Lands

September 16, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Indigenous Penan Block Logging on Their Ancestral Lands

LONG AJENG, Sarawak, Malaysia, September 16, 2021 (ENS) – In Malaysian Borneo, a dozen indigenous Penan communities of Sarawak’s Upper Baram region have acted in concert to stop the bulldozers of Samling, a Malaysian logging giant that is encroaching into some of the last primeval forest on the world’s third-largest island. […]

Energy

Thousands Block Oil Pipeline at Mississippi River Headwaters

June 7, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Thousands Block Oil Pipeline at Mississippi River Headwaters

BEMIDJI, Minnesota, June 7, 2021 (ENS) – In Minnesota’s largest ever anti-pipeline mobilization, water protectors Monday morning halted construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands crude oil pipeline. Over 1,000 people marched with Indigenous leaders to the headwaters of the Mississippi River for a treaty ceremony […]

Gov/Politics

Haaland Confirmed 1st Indigenous Secretary of Interior

March 15, 2021 News Editor Comments Off on Haaland Confirmed 1st Indigenous Secretary of Interior

WASHINGTON, DC, March 15, 2021 (ENS) – History was made today as the U.S. Senate voted 51-40 to confirm President Joe Biden’s nominee Congresswoman Debra Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. After she is sworn in, Haaland will be the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary. In 2018, she became one of the first two Native women elected to Congress. […]