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“Only informed and empowered citizens can hold their leaders accountable. Leaders who know that their citizens cannot hold them accountable tend to be irresponsible, abuse power and abuse their citizens. They mismanage resources and in the process cause much poverty and suffering. In fighting poverty it is essential to empower communities”
Wangari Maathai

 
 

News Updates

6th December 2009
Time is Running Out for Sumatran Rainforest as Demand for Palm Oil Soars

6th December 2009
Indigenous People Must Be Involved In Carbon Reduction Scheme

4th December 2009
Management Plan Could End Brazilian Deforestation by 2020, Study Says

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LifeMosaic supports indigenous peoples in the humid tropics to get their voices heard, and to access the information that they need to make informed decisions about their futures.

Indigenous peoples are the stewards of much of the world’s biological, cultural and linguistic diversity. Yet large-scale developments such as logging, dams, mines, fossil fuel extraction, and plantations often deny indigenous communities their lands, livelihoods and basic rights and destroy the ecosystems on which they depend. In many places indigenous peoples are marginalised and there is little accountability for governments and corporate interests that perpetrate abuses against them. They have little or no power or political voice and information about the impacts of these developments is often unavailable.

 

 

 
 
   
Community Conversations on Oil Palm
The human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia
Community Conversations on Climate Change
Strengthening indigenous peoples voices and self determined actions on climate change
*** NEW *** 4 Short Films Bringing indigenous peoples’ voices to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP 15) in December 2009