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Rainforest Foundation, The -- UK editor's pick popular

http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/

9 out of 10 stars (11 votes)

supports indigenous people and traditional populations of the world's rainforests in their efforts to protect their environment and fulfil their rights

Added: Feb. 05, 2001 | Rate It

Climate Change: Financing Global Forests editor's pick

http://www.ourfutureplanet.org/newsletters/resources/Executive_summary_eliasch_review.pdf

a report prepared by Johan Eliasch for the Prime Minister (UK) that provides a comprehensive analysis of international financing to reduce forest loss and its associated impacts on climate change (pdf)

Added: Nov. 15, 2008 | Rate It

Forest Peoples Program editor's pick

http://www.forestpeoples.org/

9 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

supports forest peoples’ rights to determine their own futures, to control the use of their lands and to carry out sustainable use of their resources

Added: May. 08, 2005 | Rate It

Global Justice Ecology Project editor's pick

http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/

seeks to build local, national and international alliances with action to address the common root causes of social injustice, economic domination and environmental destruction

Added: Apr. 07, 2008 | Rate It

Protests in Peru editor's pick

http://amazonwatch.org/peru-protests.php

presents news items chronicling the conflict between indigenous people and the Peruvian government over land management in the Peruvian Amazon

Added: Jun. 20, 2009 | Rate It

Rare - Inspiring Conservation editor's pick

http://rareconservation.org/

protecting wildlands of globally significant biodiversity by empowering local people to benefit from their preservation

Added: Mar. 04, 2003 | Rate It

Survival International editor's pick

http://www.survivalinternational.org/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

supports tribal peoples Worldwide through public campaigns that help them protect their lives, lands and rights

Added: Jan. 20, 2001 | Rate It

About Sarawak (Rengah Sarawak) popular

http://www.rengah.c2o.org/

7 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

contains information, photos and videos about Sarawak culture and major issues affecting their indigenous communities

Added: Jan. 20, 2001 | Rate It

Amazon Watch popular

http://www.amazonwatch.org/

5 out of 10 stars (9 votes)

works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to advance indigenous peoples' rights and defend the environment from large-scale industrial development

Added: Jan. 12, 2001 | Rate It

Adaptation of Forests and People to Climate Change

http://www.iufro.org/download/file/3580/3985/Full_Report.pdf

International Union of Forest Research Organizations assesses the strategies needed to maximize the effectiveness of adapting forests and people to climate change (pdf)

Added: May. 11, 2009 | Rate It

Amazonian Indians Native Tribes Photos and Videos

http://www.amazon-indians.org/

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides photos, videos and maps of native indigenous people from the cultures of Amazon native tribes from the South American Amazon River Basin

Added: May. 12, 2007 | Rate It

APFT

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Rainforest/

a project sponsored by the European Community which investigates and documents the future of the peoples of the rainforest; focusing on the Caribbean, central Africa and the southwestern Pacific

Added: Feb. 16, 2001 | Rate It

Biological Diversity and Indigenous Knowledge

http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1997-98/98rp17.htm

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

a paper from the Australian Parliament's library which discusses the importance of recognition and protection of Indigenous peoples' knowledge, innovations and practices relating to biodiversity

Added: Feb. 16, 2001 | Rate It

Bruno Manser Fonds, The -- Association for the people of the rain forest

http://www.bmf.ch/en/en_index.html

9 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

supports the Penan tribe in Sarawak, East Malaysia, Borneo, and other indigenous peoples to protect the remaining virgin forest within their traditional homeland

Added: Feb. 01, 2001 | Rate It

Cabeceras Aid Project

http://www.cabeceras.org/cabecerasindex.htm

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides humanitarian aid to geographically isolated indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin

Added: Feb. 08, 2001 | Rate It

Center For World Indigenous Studies

http://www.cwis.org/

a research and education organization dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political realities of indigenous nations

Added: Nov. 08, 2004 | Rate It

Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources

http://www.cier.ca/index2.html

seeks to to build the environmental capacity of First Nations, and other Indigenous communities, and to work with or for these communities to come to the successful resolution of environmental problems

Added: Oct. 19, 2003 | Rate It

Chico Mendes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Mendes

a Wikipedia article about Chico Mendes, a Brazilian labor leader concerned about the rubber plantation workers and the Amazonian forests, who was killed for his activist role

Added: Jan. 04, 2009 | Rate It

Down to Earth, International Campaign for Ecological Justice in Indonesia

http://dte.gn.apc.org/

monitors and campaigns on the social and human implications of environmental issues in Indonesia, focusing on the rights of indigenous peoples of the 'outer islands'

Added: Feb. 06, 2001 | Rate It

Ecotrust Canada

http://www.ecotrust.ca/

works at the intersection of conservation and community economic development promoting innovation and providing services for communities, First Nations and enterprises to green and grow their local economies

Added: Aug. 06, 2008 | Rate It

End of the Hinterland, The: Forests, Conflict and Climate Change

http://www.rightsandresources.org/documents/files/doc_1400.pdf

from the Rights and Resources Institute, a report that takes stock of the current status of forest rights and tenure globally, assesses the key issues and trends of 2009, and identifies key questions and challenges that we will face in 2010 (pdf)

Added: Feb. 28, 2010 | Rate It

Forest Peoples Programme

http://www.forestpeoples.gn.apc.org/

advocates an alternative vision of how forests should be managed and controlled, based on respect for the rights of the peoples who know them best

Added: Dec. 01, 2011 | Rate It

Forests Monitor

http://www.forestsmonitor.org/