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Rainforest Foundation, The -- UK editor's pick popular updated
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/
(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
(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
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
About Sarawak (Rengah Sarawak) popular
(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
(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
Amazon Conservation Team
(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/
(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
Biofuel Land Grabbing in Northern Ghana
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
Biological Diversity and Indigenous Knowledge
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1997-98/98rp17.htm
(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
(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.cabeceras.org/cabecerasindex.htm
(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
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
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
Global Justice Ecology Project
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
Indian Law Resource Center
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
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
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)
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
Added: May. 12, 2007 | Rate It
Native Americans and the Environment
articles and online resources regarding the relationship between the environment and North America's indigenous and first nations communities
Added: May. 28, 2001 | Rate It
Native Planet
(1 vote)
sensitizes and educates people about native cultures, and helps promote organizations and projects assisting local communities with education, health, cultural and environmental preservation, and human rights
Added: Mar. 01, 2001 | Rate It