fPcN interCultural:

friends of Peoples close to Nature

MIRANDA and ANTONIO JOAO, Brazil, Feb 29 (IPS) - Thousands of indigenous people in the west-central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul are living in precarious camps or small overcrowded reservations, lacking the land they need to grow the food needed to overcome high levels of malnutrition.

But despite government recognition of their ancestral land, their claims are tied up in court. Meanwhile, their community leaders face the threat of being killed for attempting to secure respect for indigenous people’s constitutional right to their traditional lands.

Wed, 08/15/2007 - The Honorable Fred Chaney (AO) and Associate Professor Sue Stanton UOW (University of Woolongong) spoke to a well-attended Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture at the Charles Darwin University last night

The theme:'40 years since the Referendum: Learning from the past, walking into the future' - was heavily influenced by the Federal intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal homelands

Mon, 07/23/2007 - 07:28 — An alert reader left a link to this article in the Daily Mail. By turns stereotypical and sensitive, the article reveals a few more details about the UAE trying to by Hadzabe land and the plight they are facing:

To the dismay of anthropologists and champions of the Earth's remaining tribal people, two wealthy Arab princes, who have made billions from oil and gas in the United Arab Emirates, are negotiating with the Tanzanian government to buy the Hadzabe's ancient lands to use as their own private hunting grounds.

Sat, 05/12/2007 - 14:35 Forced out of their ancestral homes in the early 1990s, the Batwa now demand land and aid to the Ugandan government.

Below is an article published by All Africa.com:

The Batwa have appealed to the Government to resettle them after they were evicted from their ancestral homes in the forests, writes Darious Magara.

The Government forced the Batwa out of the forests in the early 1990s to gazette them as national parks for conservation. (fPcN's added comment: with the help of WWF)