Month: September 2005

India: COPDANET Helps to Restore Tsunami-Damaged Mangroves in the Andaman Islands

by Michael Kramer-Duffield The tsunami of December 2004 devastated many coastal areas of South and Southeast Asia. Some of the hardest-hit areas were those in which coastal mangroves had been severely depleted due to overdevelopment and poor resource management, among other reasons. In these mangrove-depleted areas there was little or nothing to buffer the impact […]

Seeking Environmental Justice in South Africa

by Michael Kramer-Duffield In the heavily industrialized area of South Durban, many communities have banded together over the last decade to bring attention to and find remedies for the great harm they have incurred from living in the midst of often careless and poisonous industries. The South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) has been the […]

China: Proposed Dam Project Suspended – For Now

In early April 2004 the opposition to the Nu River dam project scored a major victory: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao ordered the project’s “suspension.” Premier Wen went on the record to state that he was concerned that the dam project had become too controversial, although he made no mention of the work of activist groups […]

Bolivia: Tacana Communities Work Together to Manage their Forests

by Mariah Ford, Greengrants Intern In July 2003, after many years of negotiating with officials in La Paz, the Comunidades Tacanas T.C.O. finally acquired title for the nearly one million hectares that they have traditionally occupied. This is a huge change from “business as usual,” in which indigenous communities have little control over the operations […]

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