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Repair, females as well as land legal rights– join the debate
Plantations International News Picture by Sirsendu Gayen, 2015 GLF photo competitorsBy Ruth Meinzen-Dick. Originally published at WLE's Thrive as
More powerful rights for the commons: A new generation of challenges
Plantations International Information By Steven Lawry, originally published at CIFOR's Forests News The Dayak aboriginal people are combating to restore their legal rights on their genealogical lands as well as regenerate the ecological community of West Kalimantan's Semenduk lake. Photo: Diah Tantri for GLF 2015 photo competitionAlmost Twenty Years earlier, in 1996, the Namibian government granted rights to wild animals-- elephants, black rhinocerous, lion and also lots of species of antelope-- to recently developed neighborhood conservancies. Now, Namibia has 82 of these area conservancies, covering 20 percent of its region. These neighborhood conservancies have created benefit a number of thousand regional [...]