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Buddhism · NepalTSUM VALLEY, Nepal — “In the future, when war, strife and difficult times come,” said Thrisong Deutsen, an eighth-century Tibetan king, “will there be a safe place where people can go to practice Buddhism?” His guest, Padmasambhava, otherwise known as Guru Rinpoche, quickly calmed the king’s worries with his response: “Yes, there will be valleys where warfare will never happen and where people will live in peace with animals.” Nearly 1,300 years…See the Story
In a Himalayan Eden, a road project promises opportunity, but also loss
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Indonesia · IndonesiaPULAU SERIBU, Indonesia — Mustaghfirin unmoors his boat every day in the Thousand Islands archipelago, two hours’ sailing from the Jakarta coast, and sets off into a sea filled with garbage. “This plastic waste is extremely annoying,” Mustaghfirin told Mongabay Indonesia in April. “The motor we use to propel the boat is small, so it often gets jammed.” In 1950, global production of plastic amounted to around 2 million metric tons per year. By 20…See the Story
As plastic talks wrap up in Canada, fishers in Indonesia count the costs
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Victoria, British Columbia · VictoriaThe Narwhal is an award-winning, non-profit, environmental news outlet based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was co-founded in 2018 by podcast guest Emma Gilchrist, who joins the show to discuss the array of environmental issues they cover and how they feature Indigenous views and topics via a “story telling vs. story taking” point of […]See the Story
The Narwhal makes waves in Canada for environmental journalism
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Indigenous · BrazilOn April 17, 2020, an Indigenous leader who fought to protect his ancestral land was violently killed in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Almost exactly four years later, a local bar owner has been convicted and sentenced to 18 years in prison for Ari Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau’s murder. The ruling marks a rare case of justice for violence against Indigenous land defenders, even as conflicts over traditional territories in Brazil persist. On April 15 this y…See the Story
Indigenous leader’s killer is convicted in Brazil, but tensions over land remain
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Ottawa, Ontario · OttawaHopes for a worldwide plastics treaty gained some momentum at the fourth of five scheduled summits to hash out an agreement. But while the week-long session of the UN International Negotiating Committee made some headway, it didn’t leave environmentalists feeling overly optimistic. INC-4, which took place the last week of April in Ottawa, Canada, was the latest step in a United Nations effort to develop international law to control plastic pollu…See the Story
At its fourth summit, 170 nations strive toward a global plastics treaty by 2025
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Palm Oil · United StatesIf you’re in the United States, your meal might come with a side of deforestation. The US imported palm oil, cattle products, soybeans, cocoa, rubber, coffee and corn linked to an estimated 122,800 hectares (303,445 acres) of tropical deforestation between October 2021 and November 2023 — an area the size of the city of Los Angeles, according to a new report provided by the NGO Trase for Global Witness. More than a third (33.8%) of the deforest…See the Story
Indonesian palm oil, Brazilian beef top contributors to U.S. deforestation exposure
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Jakarta, Indonesia · JakartaJAKARTA — Fear among Indonesia’s ruling class of losing control of natural resources to Indigenous people is why the country’s parliament continues to delay passing a long-awaited bill on Indigenous rights, according to activists. The bill was proposed in 2012 and has been placed on parliament’s list of national priority legislation every year since 2014, but never passed since. A lawmaker on the legislation committee discussing the bill now say…See the Story
Pro-business parties accused of holding back Indonesia’s Indigenous rights bill
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Ecuador · EcuadorThe Coca River, in its stretch near the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant, has been in the news since February 2, 2020. That day, the San Rafael waterfall suddenly disappeared and a strong process of regressive erosion began in the river and its tributaries in the Ecuadorian provinces of Napo and Sucumbíos. Since then, [...]See the Story
New damage from the erosion of the Coca River: deforestation, communities waiting for compensation and oil spills
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