While governments discuss funds to protect biodiversity, indigenous and local communities point out their proven conservation work needs to be eligible for grants
Tag: Indigenous people
Shall we buy clean air?: Film highlights Thai haze and ethnic people’s struggles
With no citizenship and few resources, ethnic groups in Thailand’s north are badly impacted by hazardous air pollution they don’t cause
Cambodian island looks to ecotourism for survival
Indigenous people look for new ways to make a living on one of the biggest islands in the Mekong River in Cambodia.
Time for a rethink on Thailand’s troubled forest policy
A photographer’s journey shows the consequences of the Thai government’s forest conservation policy on marginalized people.
Indigenous Cambodians stripped of ancestral land
Bunong people’s sacred forest becomes a rubber plantation in another land concession for the government.
Fight deforestation and climate change by granting indigenous rights to forests: Report
In Thailand, however, communities are being evicted from national parks under a law aimed at conserving forests.
Myanmar-Thailand highway branded ‘ecological and social disaster’
Community and conservation groups in Myanmar say the planned highway linking a port project to Thailand will uproot indigenous people from their homes and farms.
A troubled paradise: Boracay Island’s already fragile environment
President Duterte called the island a “cesspool”. (Closed Islands in Southeast Asia under threat from tourism – Part 1)