Saik’uz First Nation confronts ecological crisis to restore ancestral lands

Saik’uz First Nation confronts ecological crisis to restore ancestral lands

The Saik’uz First Nation in British Columbia is taking decisive action to rehabilitate their territory after decades of environmental degradation from unchecked development.Zoë Yunker reports for The Tyee.In short:Extensive logging, mining, and farming have severely compromised the ecosystems within...

The “preliminary draft of a complementary law” on indigenous lands presented by Supreme Court Justice Gilmar Mendes copies entire sections or makes slight adaptations of a bill produced by the Michel Temer government in 2018 and Bill 191, submitted to Congress in 2020 by the Jair Bolsonaro government. Both initiatives sought to allow mining on indigenous lands, but were rejected in 2023 by the Lula government after intense condemnation by indige…