Peatlands in Congo Basin opened for oil exploration

Masisi Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo. UN Photo/Marie Frechon.

Peatlands in Congo Basin opened for oil exploration

09 September 2022

A swampy swath of the Congo Basin has become a new battleground between those seeking revenue from natural resources and those concerned about keeping them in the ground.

Webinar Recap: Pandemic, social unrest and war echoing in the Amazon

29 September 2022

Lilian Lee

Indigenous and local leaders from Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil discussed how recent global events have put more pressure on natural resources in their territories, affecting their lives and relationship with land.

Carbon credit plan meets flak

19 September 2022

Thailand: Climate change strategy gives too much power to big corporations at the expense of local communities.

Eritrea

Eritrea has been described as a ‘garrison state’. Following decades of war to win independence from Ethiopia in 1991, any social gains made by the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) during the liberation struggle were rapidly

Constructing an Open Data Network in Senegal: Land Portal and Open Data Charter Publish State of Land Information Report

27 September 2022

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'Changing the environment through hard work': Taiwanese tree-planter in Mongolia

24 September 2022

Seventy percent of land in Mongolia has succumbed to desertification. The land has also come under relentless pressure from overgrazing by 60 million head of livestock and extractive industries like mining.

Communities look forward to reviving and commercialising private forests in Nepal

17 September 2022

Most of the land where the private forests were located was sold. This then resulted in different issues as wood became scarce along with other forest resources.

One-third of China's land protected under ecological 'red line' scheme

26 September 2022

China first proposed its "red line" scheme in 2011 to put an end to decades of "irrational development" that had encroached on forests, wetlands and other precious ecosystems.

Escalating Conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik Border: Whither the Regional Security Order?

22 September 2022

Conflicts have intensified across the former Soviet Union, now in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. It’s a worrying and disillusioning development for the region.

Job vacancy: Support efforts to integrate land tenure into the implementation of LDN and land restoration initiatives

23 September 2022

The UNCCD is looking for a consultant to support efforts to integrate land tenure into the implementation of land degradation neutrality and land restoration initiatives.

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Peatlands in Congo Basin opened for oil exploration

Webinar Recap: Pandemic, social unrest and war echoing in the Amazon

Carbon credit plan meets flak

Eritrea

Constructing an Open Data Network in Senegal: Land Portal and Open Data Charter Publish State of Land Information Report

'Changing the environment through hard work': Taiwanese tree-planter in Mongolia

Communities look forward to reviving and commercialising private forests in Nepal

One-third of China's land protected under ecological 'red line' scheme

Escalating Conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik Border: Whither the Regional Security Order?

Job vacancy: Support efforts to integrate land tenure into the implementation of LDN and land restoration initiatives