Bulletin Issue 73 – August 2003

OUR VIEWPOINT

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  The World Parks Congress: Doubts and Hopes

  September 2003 is a crucial month for the global environment movement. During September, global trade talks under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation are to be held in Cancun,
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GENERAL

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  Driven Out of Eden. Our quest for Paradise always appears to result in eviction or genocide

  It is surely one of the most brazen evasions of reality ever painted. John Constable’s “The Cornfield”, completed in 1826, and now hanging in the National Gallery’s new exhibition Paradise,
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  Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples

  Nearly 30 years have passed since the World Conservation Union, at its 12th meeting held in Kinshasa, first acknowledged the need to respect indigenous peoples’ rights to their lands in
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  “Salvaging Nature”: A review on indigenous peoples and protected areas

  To coincide with the World Parks Congress, the World Rainforest Movement and the Forest Peoples Programme, are launching a new book, “Salvaging Nature: Indigenous Peoples, Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation.”
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  The Sorry Story of the World’s First National Park

  The world’s first ‘Park’, established in Yosemite in the Sierra Nevada in California was the homeland of the Miwok people. The startling landscapes of Yosemite, substantially an outcome of indigenous
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  Key Phrases in IUCN Resolutions on Indigenous Peoples (1996)

  Resolution 1.49 on Indigenous Peoples and the IUCN calls upon members ‘to consider the adoption and implementation of the objectives of’ ILO Convention 169 and the CBD, ‘and comply with
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LOCAL STRUGGLES AND NEWS

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  Africa: Impacts of Protected Areas on Indigenous Peoples

  It is now well-documented how indigenous communities face serious discrimination from their societies, are exploited by others, and possess little protection for their resource rights upon which they rely to
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  Africa: Tribal Peoples Pay High Price for Wilderness Protection

  Exxon’s £1.3bn Chad-Cameroon pipeline stretches 1,000km across arid lands and equatorial forest to the African coast. When it reaches west Cameroon it runs adjacent to an old wildlife reserve where,
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  Congo, Republic: Apes suffer from marriage between loggers and conservationists

  Humankind’s closest relatives, the African Great Apes, may have vanished from the wild by the end of this century. The combined pressures of habitat loss and bushmeat hunting are driving
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  The Meso-American Biological Corridor: Conservation or appropriation?

  The idea of a series of protected natural areas joined by surrounding buffer zones where low intensity activities take place is no doubt attractive. It could be a scheme that
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  Meso-America: Indigenous Peoples’ opinion regarding protected areas

  On analyzing the issue of protected areas, it is essential to hear the opinion of those who inhabit them, as the establishment of such areas usually results in impacts on
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  Honduras: Rio Platano Reserve questioned

  For most of the population of Honduras, the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve is a motive for national pride. Added to the scenic beauty of this zone is its biological and
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  The vision of protected areas as seen by the Indigenous organization COICA

  The Greater Amazonia that stretches over approximately 7,8854,331 km2 (*) possesses the largest rainforest in the world, with flora and fauna that constitute, on their own, over half the world’s
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  Peru: Visit to a ‘Potato Park’

  High in the Peruvian Andes a unique initiative in indigenous-run conservation is being pursued to preserve the huge variety of domesticated potatoes that are one of the most significant elements
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  Bangladesh: “Save Sundarban, Save People Through Empowered Community Participation”

  The Sundarban is the largest contiguous mangrove forest presently remaining in the world, and has been declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO in 1997. However, it is now on
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  Indonesia: The Dayak People in the First Co-managed Protected Area

  The Kayan Mentarang National Park situated in the interior of East Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, lies at the border with Sarawak to the west and Sabah to the north. With its
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  The Philippines: Indigenous Peoples’s Rights-based Approach to Conservation

  The Philippines has been regarded as one of the most active and progressive countries in Asia in terms of developing policies and laws recognising the rights of indigenous peoples and
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  Vietnam: Na Hang dam – the reality of sustainable development?

  Jordan Ryan, the head of the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam, is keen on sustainable development. In May 2002, at the launch of a partnership between aid agencies, NGOs
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