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Entries Tagged as 'environment'

Gond Indigenous Peoples of India Impacted by Deforestation

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

The South Central Gond indigenous people live in the forests and hills of India in Maharashatra and Andhra Pradesh, north of the Godavari River. They are essentially concentrated in the Chandrapur, Adilabad, and Garhichiroli districts. The Southeast Gond indigenous people live in the forests and hills of southern India. They are primarily concentrated in the […]

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Tags: indigenous+peoples · deforestation · human rights · india · colonialism · environment

Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador Impacted by Oil Drilling

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Impacted Indigenous Peoples
The A’ingae, or Cofan people, have lived between the Aguarico and Guamués rivers for centuries, long before the foundation of the Republics of Ecuador and Colombia, from the Azuela river up to the middle section of the Aguarico basin, and up to present-day Puerto Asís. The Cofan territory was next to the communities […]

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Tags: social justice · Oil and Gas · indigenous+peoples · human rights · Amazon · environment

Indigenous Peoples of South and Central Asia Book Review

August 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Barbara Bower and Barbara Rose Johnston, eds.2007
Left Coast Press
On May 2, 2008 the cyclone Nargis crashed into Myanmar, killing an estimated 78,000 people and inundating countless acres of land. A week later, an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck Wenchuan County in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. These two events brought the […]

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Tags: indigenous+peoples · social justice · india · colonialism · China · Tibet · environment