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Dez
2005

4
Dez
2005

50,000 protest over forest law in India

Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:13:24 +0530
From: Campaign for Survival and Dignity
Subject: FR Update: More than 50,000 Protesters, Bill Approved

The biggest news is of course that the forest rights Bill was approved by Cabinet last Thursday, as you must have seen in the newspapers. However, several of those reports also contained disturbing reports about changes that have been made in the Bill. The impact of some of the reported changes is in the first section below, though we won't know what the implication of these changes is until the actual Bill is made public. It is expected that the Bill will be introduced in Parliament this week.

Meanwhile, the jail bharo is swelling across the length and breadth of the country. The total of those who have protested and courted arrest has crossed 50,000. From the west of the country (Dadra and Nagar Haveli) to the east (Siliguri), from the south (Karnataka) to the north (Rajasthan), tens of thousands of people are on the streets. This coming week will also see protests in Delhi by friendly organizations, including dharnas at Jantar Mantar on the 7th and the 10th (details below), and big jail bharo andolans in Gujarat and at Jalpiguri, Bhopal, Udaipur, Bhubaneshwar, Raipur and elsewhere.

Now that the first hurdle - the Bill being cleared by Cabinet - is over, the next fight is in Parliament, to get the Bill changed so that its problems do not nullify the entire process of recognition of rights. The Campaign has begun working on this, both in the States and in Delhi, and other groups are expected to do so well. It is however going to be a hard fight in the coming months to ensure that this Bill too does not end up getting sabotaged.

FOREST RIGHTS UPDATE # 7

1. CAMPAIGN JAIL BHARO PROTESTS AND OTHER PLANNED PROTESTS

2. THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE REPORTED CHANGES IN THE BILL

PROTESTS AND DETAILS

The jail bharo andolan continues. On the 29th of this month, 8,000 people courted arrest in Silvassa in the Union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli. On the 30th, more than 1,500 protesters braved the weather to march in Siliguri, West Bengal. On the 1st of December, 5,500 people marched in Ahwa (Dangs District) and Palanpur in Gujarat. In Rajasthan, three different protests held in various blocks each drew 400 - 500 people, building up to a major rasta roko in Banswada on Saturday where more than 1,000 people were expected. In Karnataka, hundreds of tribals were detained after they staged a rasta roko on December 2nd in Mudigere Taluka.

Meanwhile, Delhi will also see protests in the coming days. On December 7th, the Punarvasan Sangharsh Samiti and Lok Sangharsh Morcha are staging a dharna at Jantar Mantar. Another dharna at the same location is planned for the 10th by the Gondwana Ganatantrak Party from Madhya Pradesh.

More protests are happening in the coming days. A mobilization of more than 25,000 people is expected to shake Bhopal on the 6th and 7th. Another 7,000 are to march in Bhubaneshwar on the 8th. We will keep you informed.

REPORTED CHANGES IN THE BILL

According to press reports, three major changes have been made. First, the phrase "or as the Government may by notification specify" has been deleted from the clause that specifies that rights can only be recognized if the ST in question occupied land prior to 25-10-1980. If this is true, it is a further setback and reaffirms the unjust and arbitrary cutoff date of 1980 by removing whatever little flexibility the Bill had.

Second, the Forest Department has supposedly been given a role in the process of recognizing rights at the level of the committees. While it is not clear what this role is, we hope it does not constitute any overriding power. The Campaign has always argued that the Committees should not have arbitrary powers to overrule the gram sabha and village level process, which is the only open and democratic method of recognizing rights. Giving these committees too much power will nullify the entire process. It has been shown time and again - in Maharashtra, in Madhya Pradesh, in Karnataka and elsewhere - that where state officials can overrule the local level process arbitrarily, no recognition occurs.

Third, a provision has been included saying that rights in the "core areas" of national parks and sanctuaries will be provisionally granted for a period of five years, pending relocation. One is not sure of the phrasing of this provision, but any mention of relocation in a Bill on rights is itself extremely disturbing. Moreover, relocation without the free, prior and informed consent of the community, and without a right of return, is unjust and amounts to forced eviction. If this provision encourages such "resettlement", it is a severe blow to the entire purpose of this Bill.


Informant: Andy

30
Nov
2005

How to Tame the Logging Beast

At last, the idea of the developed world paying rainforest-rich countries to protect their rainforests, in this case in exchange for carbon storage, is being seriously proposed by Papua New Guinea (PNG) and others at this week's Montreal climate meetings. However, this grand "rainforest protection through carbon markets" vision is largely removed from the daily logging plunder occurring in PNG and the world's other remaining large rainforests.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112905E.shtml

29
Nov
2005

Pay Up to Save the Rainforests

A bloc of developing countries plans to make a radical proposal this week at the United Nations summit on climate change in Montreal: pay us, and we will preserve our rainforests. The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea said timber was one of the few natural resources available and their only current option for economic growth involved the destruction of the forests.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/112805EB.shtml

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Nov
2005

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Nov
2005

16
Nov
2005

Protest gegen Urwaldvernichtung vor der finnischen Botschaft

Kahlschlag: Protest gegen Urwaldvernichtung vor der finnischen Botschaft (16.11.05)

Greenpeace-Aktivisten brachten heute die Urwaldzerstörung aus Finnland nach Berlin. Vor die finnische Botschaft legen die Umweltschützer 15 Kubikmeter Astwerk aus einem abgeholzten Urwald. Auf einem Transparent stand: "Schützt Finnlands Urwälder - kein Papier und Holz aus Urwaldzerstörung". Der Grund für die Aktion: Die finnische Regierung lässt die letzten Urwälder im Norden des Landes weiter abholzen. Seit Anfang Oktober fällt das staatliche finnische Forstamt Metsähallitus nahe des Inari-Sees in Nordfinnland wieder im Urwald. Greenpeace Untersuchungen haben ergeben, dass der Einschlag im Urwaldsogar gesetzlich geschützte Arten zerstört, wie seltene Baumpilze. Deutschland ist Finnlands wichtigster Abnehmer des aus diesem Urwaldholz hergestellten Papiers.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:
http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=12315

15
Nov
2005

UN figures on the 'state of the world's forests' are misleading, inaccurate and understate the real extent of deforestation and damage to forests globally

RAINFOREST FOUNDATION

PRESS RELEASE

14th November 2005: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW UNITED NATIONS FIGURES FOR GLOBAL DEFORESTATION ARE 'BAD SCIENCE' AND CONCEAL FULL HUMAN IMPACT ON WORLD'S FORESTS

The Rainforest Foundation today claimed that new figures released today by the United Nations on the 'state of the world's forests' are misleading, inaccurate and understate the real extent of deforestation and damage to forests globally. [1]

The new UN figures purport to show that the rate of "net forest loss is slowing down, thanks to new planting and natural expansion of existing forests". [2]

However, analysis by the Rainforest Foundation indicates that there are major methodological flaws in the UN's report, especially that:

* the UN figure for 'net' deforestation is grossly misleading, as it conceals the fact that most deforestation is taking place in the world's tropical rainforests, whereas most of the reforestation and natural re-growth of forests is taking place in the northern hemisphere, and much of this consists of plantations rather than forests.

* the UN figure is based on a definition of forest as being an area with as little as 10% actual tree cover, which would therefore include areas that are actually savannah-like ecosystems and badly damaged forests;

* areas of land that presently have no trees on them at all, but that are 'expected' to regenerate, are also counted as forests;

* the UN includes in its data for existing areas of forest those that are covered by industrial tree plantations, which are actually lacking some of the key functions of true forests;

These flaws are analysed in detail in a new Rainforest Foundation report, entitled 'Irrational Numbers: Why the FAO's Forest Assessments are M isleading", which is published today to coincide with the release of the new UN figures [3]. Simon Counsell, of the Rainforest Foundation, said: "It is a global disgrace that, after decades of concern about the world's declining forests, the United Nations still can't even produce an accurate assessment of how much forest is actually left. The new Forest Resources Assessment repeats the bad science of previous assessments, which have been widely criticised, and obscures the real extent of deforestation. The United Nations should scrap this latest report, should make a firm commitment to revising the methods by which it assesses and reports on the state of the world's forests, and should then set out an urgent plan as to how global deforestation can be halted."

ENDS

For further information:

Simon Counsell, Rainforest Foundation T (office): +44 (0) 207 251 6345 T (Cell): +44 (0)7941 899 579 simonc@rainforestuk.com


Notes to editors:

[1] The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation - the agency which has lead responsibility for forests within the UN system - today launched its 'Global Forest Resource Assessment' for 2005. Similar reports have been produced since 1948.

[2] The press release issued by the FAO today claims that "The annual net loss of forest area between 2000 and 2005 was 7.3 million hectares/year... down from an estimated 8.9 million hectares/year between 1990 and 2000" (http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp?siteId=101&sitetreeId=1191&langId=1&geoId=0)

[3] A copy of 'Irrational Numbers' is available for download free from:
http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/fcpage.php?fcpage=1237&language=EN



Deforestation continues at an alarming rate

14 November 2005, Rome – Each year about 13 million hectares of the world’s forests are lost due to deforestation, but the rate of net forest loss is slowing down, thanks to new planting and natural expansion of existing forests, FAO announced today.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2005/1000127/index.html

Twenty percent of the world's mangroves lost over the last 25 years: Rate of deforestation slowing, but still a cause for alarm

9 November 2005, Rome - Around 20 percent of the world's mangrove forests have disappeared during the past 25 years as a result of over-exploitation and conversion to other uses, according to a new FAO study.

http://www.fao.org/forestry/newsroom/en/news/2005/highlight_108389en.html


From ECOTERRA Intl.

2
Nov
2005

Malawi Is Burning, and Deforestation Erodes Economy

Malawi is losing nearly 200 square miles of its forests annually, a deforestation rate of 2.8 percent that the Southern Africa Development Community says is one of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the wood goes to make charcoal for cooking fires.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/110105EB.shtml



Drought Deepens Poverty, Starving More Africans

A recent report by the United States Agency for International Development said that Malawi "is now in a near constant state of food shortage, with persistently high levels of nutritional deprivation." Most Malawians cannot finance even a minimally adequate diet.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/110205HA.shtml

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Okt
2005

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