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Amazon degraded lands prompt new bushmeat hunting trends
South Africa: Commission On Restitution of Land Rights On Land Claims Mobile Offices
By: South African government (press release)
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / South African Government
PRESS RELEASE
Thousands of rural communities reached through restitution mobile offices
Cameroon's nomads put hopes in land rights
Cameroon is working on land reforms that could offer a lifeline to the Mbororo people. As land use intensifies, the nomads are increasingly subject to persecution and attacks on their cattle.
Adamou Harouna's herd of cattle grazes on lush green vegetation in Ndop, a small village in Cameroon's northwest. The cattle herder is one the country's 2.5 million Mbororo people.
Colombia law fails to put land back in farmers' hands
Struggle against mining violations leaves activists exposed
Authors: Sutharee Wannasiri & Kingsley Abbott
Date: June 5th, 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
Late in the evening of May 15, 2014, more than 100 men, most of them armed and wearing black masks, stormed a small village in Loei province and assaulted more than a dozen men and women who opposed a local copper and gold mine.
How far the international community has come on land rights ?
International Financial Capital Targets Farmland in Brazil
By: Maria Luisa Mendonça
Date: June 19th 2016
Source: TeleSUR English
Land speculation stimulates the expansion of plantations across Brazil, increasing land conflicts and displacement of campesino and Indigenous communities.
South African indigenous community win environmental rights case over mining company
A court has ruled that companies must first seek permission from local communities if they plan to mine on their ancestral land. This represents a new achievement in land and mining rights for South Africa.
