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

http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/s-index

10 out of 10 stars (9 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

Forest Peoples Program editor's pick

http://www.forestpeoples.org/

8 out of 10 stars (2 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

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.survival-international.org/

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

Added: Jan. 20, 2001 | Rate It

Biofuel Land Grabbing in Northern Ghana new

http://www.gaiafoundation.org/documents/biofuelsghana.pdf

a report from the African Biodiversity Network about land-grabbing and deforestation for jatropha biodiesel and local resistance (pdf)

Added: Apr. 25, 2008 | Rate It

Global Justice Ecology Project new

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

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

Borneo Project popular

http://www.earthisland.org/borneo/

5 out of 10 stars (4 votes)

an Earth Island project that assists Borneo's indigenous peoples in their struggle to regain control of their ancestral lands from the forces of rampant destruction

Added: Feb. 05, 2001 | Rate It

Amazon Conservation Team

http://www.amazonteam.org/

10 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

works in partnership with indigenous people in conserving biodiversity, health and culture in tropical America

Added: Jan. 18, 2003 | 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

8 out of 10 stars (2 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.onr.com/cabeceras/

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

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

Global Forest Coalition

http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/

network which aims to raise awareness of the need for socially just and effective forest policy, challenges the underlying causes of forest loss and supports the rights of indigenous and other forest peoples

Added: Oct. 21, 2007 | Rate It

Indian Law Resource Center

http://www.indianlaw.org/

legal advocacy for the protection of indigenous peoples’ human rights, cultures, and traditional lands so that Indian tribes and nations may flourish for generations to come

Added: Mar. 01, 2001 | Rate It

Indigenous Environmental Network

http://www.ienearth.org/

an alliance of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods and environmental protection of our lands, water, air

Added: Feb. 15, 2001 | Rate It

International Indian Treaty Council, The

http://www.treatycouncil.org/

indigenous peoples from North, Central, South America and the Pacific working for sovereignty and self-determination and the recognition and protection of indigenous rights, traditional cultures and sacred lands

Added: Mar. 01, 2001 | Rate It

Manu, Peru's Hidden Rain Forest

http://www.pbs.org/edens/manu/

focuses on the indigenous tribes, wildlife and plants that populate this rainforest region, from PBS's Living Edens series

Added: Mar. 23, 2001 | Rate It

Movement in the Amazon for Tribal Subsistence and Economic Sustainability (MATSES)

http://www.matses.org/

offers assistance to the Matsés indigenous communities so that this native Amazonian tribe can conserve their native culture and indigenous communal reserve in a sustainable and autonomous manner