Oct 22
NO POCAHONTAS HERE! By CHANTAL COOKE. Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota is everything you wish an Indian reservation wasn’t. There are no beautiful Pocahontas look-a-likes in moccasins and beaded clothes, no strong Indian chiefs dispensing wise words and encouraging us to live in tune with nature. Instead, as you enter the reservation, the …
Oct 05
EVO MORALES: ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMPION OR ENVIRONMENTAL CHARLATAN?. By CLAIRE GREEN. As Bolivia’s first indigenous President, Evo Morales has moved environmentalism, anti-capitalism, and indigenous rights to the forefront of the political agenda, acting as the self-proclaimed tribune of both the rural indigenous poor and “Pachamama”, or Mother Earth. However, now more than halfway through his second …
Sep 17
IS THIS A “PERFECT STORM” FOR RHINO POACHING? By CHANTAL COOKE. Rhino poaching is on the increase. A new report from TRAFFIC www.traffic.org documents how poor compliance over rhino horn stockpile management, loopholes in sport hunting policy, and surging demand for horn in Viet Nam has created ideal conditions for the involvement of sophisticated …
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