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Land rights

September 2023

  • Bravus workers allegedly attempt to stop traditional owners accessing sacred site - video

    The traditional owners, cultural custodians of the site, were visiting the Doongmabulla Springs, a desert oasis of great cultural significance to the Wangan and Jagalingou First Nation
  • A man holds a sign that reads ‘Fora Ecocida’ (ecocide out) during an environmental protest against former president Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia, Brazil, April 2022

    The age of extinction
    Environmental activists killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022 – report

    Colombia was the deadliest country and a fifth of the 177 recorded killings took place in the Amazon rainforest, says Global Witness
  • Lindsay Pugh is one of the campaigners opposing the sale of the wildflower meadow Juniper Hill Field

    ‘Leisure land’: Cotswolds meadow locals campaign against sell-off plan

    Community around Juniper Hill Field wants to stop wildflower-rich land being divided into small plots

August 2023

  • Far Ralia estate, Newtonmore, Cairngorms.

    Reforesting Scotland doesn’t need multimillionaires, say campaigners

  • A woman and her child in front of the rubble of their demolished home. A plastic sheet has been placed over the remaining walls to create a shelter

    ‘Sweets for the people’: Zimbabwe’s voters lured by land barons’ promises

  • A view of the Hoover dam in Boulder, Nevada.

    More than 1m acres of Indigenous land flooded by dams, new study finds

  • Cleeve Common near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

    First Edition newsletter
    Monday briefing: The long legal fight for the ‘right to roam’ England’s countryside

  • ‘It’s for the people’: wild campers enjoy court victory on Dartmoor

  • Labour would extend right to wild camp to all English national parks

  • Brief letters
    Townies beware: wild walkers on the loose

  • The Guardian view on wild camping at Dartmoor: immersion in beauty is legal after all

July 2023

  • London, UK. 12th December 2022. Outside Royal Courts of Justice, rally to defend wild camping in designated areas of Dartmoor National Park. Wealthy landowner Alexander Darwall lodges papers seeking end to camping on moorland without permission. People have camped in these areas for at least 100 years, with bylaws brought in under the Dartmoor Commons Act. Credit: Stephen Bell/Alamy Live News<br>2M1JYWX London, UK. 12th December 2022. Outside Royal Courts of Justice, rally to defend wild camping in designated areas of Dartmoor National Park. Wealthy landowner Alexander Darwall lodges papers seeking end to camping on moorland without permission. People have camped in these areas for at least 100 years, with bylaws brought in under the Dartmoor Commons Act. Credit: Stephen Bell/Alamy Live News

    Tell us: are you planning to wild camp on Dartmoor?

    We want to hear from people who plan to camp on Dartmoor following the court appeal victory
  • Two people in a gathering hold up a banner saying 'Defend Dartmoor' with hills in the background

    Wild camping allowed on Dartmoor again after court appeal succeeds

    Dartmoor National Park Authority had appealed against January high court ruling that outlawed practice
    • Ministers need to be bolder over Scotland’s land reforms, say campaigners

    • Camping not recreation ‘because you are just asleep’, Dartmoor appeal told

    • ‘Captured the public zeitgeist’: Court to hear appeal against England wild camping ban

June 2023

  • Illustration of stumps of trees with new shoots growing from them on a green background.

    The Bruno and Dom project
    Rethink, reform, rebuild: 7 steps to save the Amazon

    As the world’s biggest rainforest degrades fast towards its tipping point, finding solutions is more urgent than ever. But who to ask first and where to begin?

May 2023

  • People protest the environmental impact of the Maya Train, in Playa del Carmen, Mexico

    ‘A megaproject of death’: fury as Maya train nears completion in Mexico

  • Two ramblers cross a fence in a field in Penrith and the Border

    92 constituencies in England allow no right to roam, data shows

April 2023

  • A farm near Ledbury

    UK failing to honour net zero farming pledges, report finds

    Exclusive: Projected emissions drop for agriculture and land use 58% below target in original net zero plan
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