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Setting Up Legal Rights for Forest Dwellers can Reduce Deforestation
Under the programme, governments would be paid by the international community to preserve forests in global efforts to combat climate change.
But campaigners have warned that unless the proposals take greater account of the rights of forest-dwelling communities to live, manage and take resources from the land, the plans will fail, and could provoke corruption and land grabs.
According to Erik Solheim, Norway’s environment and international development minister, "Indigenous peoples are rightly concerned about how these new investments could affect their access to the forests that they depend on for their livelihoods."
"These rights need to be respected, not just for moral reasons, although that is vital. It is also a matter of pragmatism and effectiveness," he added.
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10/21/2008
YES, legal rights for forest-dwelling peoples will make a big difference to reduce deforestation. The new constitution in Ecuador (just passed by the people) grants legal rights to "mother nature" so local people can protect their forests. However there are other serious problems that local people must face
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