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		The Forest Peoples Programmes (FPP) supports forest peoples' rights to determine their own futures, to control the use of their ancestral lands and to carry out sustainable use of their resources.
		FPP was established in 1990 by the World Rainforest Movement specifically to work with forest peoples in their struggle to survive the global forest crisis.
		The Amazon Alliance is an initiative born out of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and traditional groups of the Amazon and individuals and groups who share their concerns for thr future of the Amazon and its peoples.
	www.caribbeanngos.net /member_profile_pages/jl2/links.htm (378 words)

	foei campaigns: climate change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		But it is known that rural communities and indigenous peoples are particularly vulnerable to forest degradation which is caused by logging companies that gain access to forest resources, often through corrupt practices.
		Forests are inhabited and used by millions of people world-wide and the social and environmental consequences of large-scale forestry commercial forestry operations can hardly be off-set by setting aside "critical forest areas".
		In the absence of these reforms combined with the lack of broad participation of representatives of indigenous peoples and other organizations directly involved in protecting forests and their inhabitants, the Forest Investment Forum can only further undermine the credibility of the World Bank in the eyes of those who are the institution's intended beneficiaries.
	www.foei.org /forests/letter.html (777 words)

	Forest Peoples Programme: Home Page
		Many of the peoples who live in and have customary rights to their forests have developed ways of life and traditional knowledge that are attuned to their forest environments.
		Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) advocates an alternative vision of how forests should be managed and controlled, based on respect for the rights of the peoples who know them best.
		We work with forest peoples in South America, Central Africa, South and South East Asia, and Central Siberia to help these communities secure their rights, build up their own organisations and negotiate with governments and companies as to how economic development and conservation is best achieved on their lands.
	www.forestpeoples.org (266 words)

	New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Until the arrival of humans, 80% of the land was forested and, barring three species of bat (one now extinct), there were no non-marine mammals.
		Instead, New Zealand's forests were inhabited by a diverse range of birds including the flightless moa (now extinct), and the kiwi, kakapo, and takahē, all endangered due to human actions.
		There were many people from Scotland amongst the early British settlers and elements of their culture persist; New Zealand is said to have more pipebands than Scotland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand (5079 words)

	Forest Peoples Project: Home Page
		Millions of indigenous and tribal peoples are affected by these activities but their voices are seldom heard by the policy makers and enterprises that decide the fate of the forests.
		Forest peoples need support to conserve their lands and their resources and to develop sustainable activities that strengthen their communities, protect the environment and reduce poverty.
		The Forest Peoples Project was set up in 1999 as the charitable arm of the Forest Peoples Programme, to improve social, economic and environmental conditions for indigenous and tribal forest peoples worldwide.
	www.forestpeoples.org /project_index.shtml (214 words)

	Bank Information Center USA : Indigenous Peoples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The Alliance is an initiative born out of the partnership between indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon and groups and individuals who share their concerns for the future of the Amazon and its peoples.
		FPP helps to create space for forest peoples to negotiate their demands through their own representative institutions and to determine their own futures.
		FPP supports forest peoples to develop sustainable activities that enhance their dignity and the protection of the environment.
	www.bicusa.org /bicusa/issues/indigenous_peoples/index.php (1095 words)

	Request for UK support for amendments to the World Bank's draft policy on Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP4.12)
		The Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) is writing to inform you of its continuing concerns that the World Bank's draft resettlement policy contains provisions which contravene its mandate for poverty reduction and which disregard fundamental human rights standards for indigenous peoples.
		For indigenous peoples, forcible relocation can be disastrous and even ethnocidal because it breaks their close and multifaceted ties with their ancestral lands and resource base.
		Special protection should be afforded to indigenous peoples, minorities, peasants, pastoralists and other groups with a special dependency on and attachment to their lands." Another report found that the principle of consent has obtained the status of a binding general principle of international law.
	www.ciel.org /Ifi/forestpeoples_20sept01.html (1826 words)

	Negotiating Diversity - A Field Guide to the Convention on Biological Diversity
		The terms "rights-holders" was developed during the sixth meeting of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity to differentiate indigenous peoples from inclusion in the general term "stakeholders", which has historically dominated the language of the Convention.
		The existence of this 'forgotten article' and its implications for the development of the Convention was first raised in Hyvarinen, J (2001) 'Strengthening the Convention on Biological Diversity'.
		An illustration of this is that references to cultural diversity and indigenous peoples are beginning to appear within the text of COP decisions.
	www.cesagen.lancs.ac.uk /virtual/biodiversity/references.htm (2499 words)

	Choike : Indigenous Peoples .
		IEN is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws.
		IBIN is being developed as a mechanism to help indigenous peoples to communicate and build capacity in implementing national legislation, respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional lifestyles relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.
		IPCB is organized to assist indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, indigenous knowledge, cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology.
	www.chasque.net /frontpage/choike/links/4/34/info_util6.html (856 words)

	Part A - Indigenous Peoples and Biodiversity Conservation
		It summarises the situation of indigenous peoples in developing countries, with a particular focus on the humid tropics, while setting out the key opportunities, challenges and difficulties confronting these peoples in their relationship to the ecosystems that they have traditionally depended on for their livelihoods.
		The conviction that securing indigenous peoples' rights to their lands provides a viable means of protecting biodiversity now underpins a large proportion of donor assistance projects with indigenous peoples in the tropics and provides the underlying rationale for the Peoples, Forests and Reefs program which commissioned this review (see box next page).
		Peoples choose to identify themselves as 'Indigenous Peoples' in order to secure control of their lands and natural resources, to renegotiate their political relations with Nation States and to overcome discrimination and marginalisation.
	www.worldwildlife.org /bsp/publications/asia/marcus/marcus_A.html (13557 words)

	Bank Information Center USA : Indigenous Peoples and the World Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Forest Peoples Programme releases update that identifies potential useful provisions and major outstanding weaknesses and gaps in the December 2004 draft revised policy.
		The Bank's 1982 guidelines on "Tribal Peoples in Bank Financed Projects" (OMS 2.34) were developed in response to severe criticisms of the Bank for adverse impacts on indigenous communities throughout the world.
		Indigenous peoples consistently demand that the new IP policy recognize and require their right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC).
	www.bicusa.org /bicusa/issues/indigenous_peoples_and_the_world_bank/index.php (2682 words)

	Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Marcus Colchester's primary work has focused on securing indigenous people's rights to their lands and livelihoods by pressing for policy change at grass-roots, national, and international levels.
		Colchester used his Pew award to address the problem of balancing the social needs of indigenous communities--which are undergoing rapid social and economic change--with their environment.
		The ultimate goal was not just to help specific communities solve their long-term environmental management problems, but also to help identify replicable approaches to stimulate this kind of problem-solving on a wider scale.
	www.pewmarine.org /pewFellowsDirectoryTemplate.php?PEWSerialInt=3611 (385 words)

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		This Proposed Policy does not provide greater protection for indigenous peoples but in fact is regressive in comparison with the current policy (OD 4.20) ("Current Policy") in the assertion of the rights of indigenous peoples.
		Indigenous peoples and civil society organizations attended and made comments and suggestions on the policy with the expectation that their contributions would be included in the revision of the Proposed Policy.
		Similarly, in Manila, the Director of the Commission on Indigenous Peoples, who was to present a matrix comparing the Current and Proposed Policies, left before giving her presentation in order to attend a budget meeting.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Charter/wbletter1.htm (1598 words)

	forest peoples publications
		Briefing focusing on the interdependence between forests and human health and reflects these concerns in the policies, programmes and projects of the EU May 2005
		New threats to the forests and forest peoples of the Democratic Republic of Congo
		Indigenous peoples' action plan as presented by the participants of the Indigenous Peoples' Forest Forum to the World Forestry Congress in Quebec
	www.fern.org /pages/peoples/pubs.html (227 words)

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		What has been left out of the discussion, however, is that mining activities take place exclusively in the ancestral lands and territories of Indigenous peoples and Maroons in the forested interior of the country and that they will suffer the consequences of increasing numbers of small-scale miners.
		International human rights standards on the rights of Indigenous and Tribal peoples require, at a minimum, that Indigenous peoples be consulted about decisions that may affect their rights and lives.
		The problems caused by licensing garimpeiros are further compounded by the fact that Suriname does not legally recognize the land and resource rights of Indigenous peoples and Maroons and maintains that the State is the sole owner of both surface and subsurface land and resources.
	nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu /~arm/FPP-gari.html (753 words)

	Satya Jan 99: Surinam Maroons by the Forest Peoples Programme
		Presently, all land in the interior of the country (approximately 80 percent) is classified as state land and indigenous peoples and Maroons are considered to be “permissive occupiers” of state land without rights or “title thereto.” If their subsistence activities conflict with logging or mining operations, the latter take precedence as a matter of law.
		International human rights standards state that indigenous peoples and Maroons have the right to participate fully in decisions before they are taken about whether concessions are granted on their lands.
		Surinam’s rain forests are high in biological diversity and endemic species and are the ancestral homelands of tens of thousands of indigenous peoples and Maroons.
	www.satyamag.com /jan99/sat.54.surin.html (1304 words)

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		This report finds that programmes funded by the World Bank Group are causing destruction of the world’s remaining forests and harming poor people dependent on forests for their survival.
		A new independent report published today finds that programmes funded by the World Bank Group are causing destruction of the world’s remaining forests and harming poor people dependent on forests for their survival.
		The Bank's plans for DRC’s forests are likely to damage or destroy the livelihoods of tens of millions of the world's poorest people, trample on the rights of indigenous forest people, and promote conflict and corruption along the way.
	www.ogiek.org /news/news-post-05-04-4.htm (686 words)

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		It should also provide for Indigenous peoples’ right to declare their own territories to be protected areas and to own and manage them separately or in cooperation with state or private agencies.
		This paragraph concerns establishment or maintenance of official mechanisms or procedures for Indigenous peoples’ participation in decision-making in cases where the state, as is the case in most of the Americas, owns subsoil minerals and resources on the land.
		With regard to the former, Indigenous peoples’ right to determine and implement their own development path is recognized, even if different from that of the state, while the state maintains its obligation to provide the means for Indigenous development at least to the same level as that enjoyed by other sectors of society.
	www.oas.org /consejo/cajp/docs/cp09495e04.doc (4561 words)

	BF: FPP / pop ups ENG - Hivos Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) exists to support the rights of peoples who live in the forests and depend on them for their livelihoods, to control their lands and destinies.
		FPP seeks to create political space for forest peoples to exercise their right to self-determination and to practise sustainable forest management.
		The organisation provides policy advice and training to forest peoples at local, national and international levels for them to secure and sustainably manage their forests, land and livelihoods.
	www.hivos.nl /nederlands/layout/set/popup/layout/set/print/content/view/full/1497 (415 words)

	Choike : Natural Resources .
		The Alliance is a partnership between indigenous and traditional peoples of the Amazon and groups and individuals who share their concerns for the future of the Amazon and its peoples.
		Forests Monitor aims to contribute to the debate about sustainable forest management by collating and disseminating information on companies operating in the forestry sector around the world.
		Forests, Trees and People Programme to develop tools, methods and approaches for participatory forestry.
	www.chasque.apc.org /frontpage/choike/links/21/59/info_util6.html (437 words)

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		Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) is an international human rights organisation founded in 1990 and based in the United Kingdom.
		FPP supports forest peoples in their struggle to control the use of their lands and resources, and works to put human rights issues at the heart of the debate about forests.
		As the forests were destroyed by agriculturalists and pastoralists, the Batwa were forced to abandon their traditional lifestyle based on hunting and gathering.
	www.crin.org /docs/resources/treaties/crc.40/Uganda_FPP_UOBDU_ngo_report.doc (5746 words)

	Forest, - Russian Forests - Welcome !!! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Petrified Forest National Park is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.
		Forest Peoples Programme supports indigenous forest peoples to gain recognition of their rights and control of their lands and resources.
		22% of the world's forests are in Russia.
	finderthink.com /fnri/forest.htm (393 words)

	The history of Native Guyana
		The Amerindian Peoples Association and the leaders of the Macusi, Wapisiana and Wai Wai communities of Southern Guyana are requesting international support to stop the granting of two large mining concessions to Canadian company, Vannessa Ventures Ltd.
		From the Forest Peoples Programme, 7 September 1998.
		At a meeting held in the Wayana village of Twenke in French Guiana, Indigenous peoples and Maroons met to discuss, among others, the recognition of their rights in connection with the proposed establishment of a National Park.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/41/index-fn.html (314 words)

	Members of the CNR Solidarity Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Currently the SC is led by the Sustainable Development Foundation, the Forest Peoples Programme and the Latin American Observatory of Environmental Conflicts.
		Its main focus is the right of the rural poor and indigenous peoples of the 'outer islands' to determine their own futures.
		The FPP supports forest peoples in their struggle to control the use of their lands and resources and to put human rights issues at the heart of the debate about forests.
	www.sidint.org /cnrweb/members.htm (678 words)

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