Amazonian Tribe Protests Oil Pollution:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5337802.stm
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Category: RT Newswire
USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.
Indigenous People Demand Voice in Climate Talks
Published on Friday, November 28, 2008 by OneWorld.net
by Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS – Calls for greater participation of the world’s indigenous leaders are on the rise as another round of talks on global climate change opens in the Polish city of Poznan next week.
In a study released last week, MRG researchers warned that a new climate change agreement would be “seriously compromised” if policymakers continued to shut out the voices of those most affected by global warming.
More than 8,000 delegates from around the world are expected to participate in the meeting at Poznan. The two-week meeting is supposed to hammer out further international commitments to fight climate change, including climate-related financial assistance for developing countries.
Public-Lands Cattle Ranching an Ongoing, Little-Discussed Tragedy
Nov 29, 5:19 AM EST
Wildlife group seeks help from Texas oil tycoon’s wife to ease grazing on public lands
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Conservationists are looking to the wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens to help push for federal reforms that they say will help thousands of wild horses and save rangeland in the West.
Madeleine Pickens recently announced plans to create a refuge for wild horses. She came up with the idea after hearing that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management was considering euthanizing some of the animals to control the herds and protect the range.
WildEarth Guardians wants to take Pickens’ plan further by proposing a solution the group believes would resolve public land grazing conflicts that have resulted in the horses needing a home.
Water Issues to be Discussed in Poland Climate Talks
Access to water must be high on climate agenda: group
Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:02am EST
By Svetlana Kovalyova
MILAN (Reuters) – Access to water is a basic human right and should be high on the agenda of climate change talks in Poland next week, the head of an Italian advocacy group said on Friday.
With more than 1 billion people having no access to safe water, the World Water Contract group for years has sought to make availability of water a basic right and add it to the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“Given that water is threatened by climate change, it is time to include the human right to water in (the new climate) protocol,” Emilio Molinari, chairman of the group’s Italian branch, told Reuters on the margins of a water conference.