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Land rights

June 2024

  • A graphic of an older black-and-white photo of three Black people with an illustration of green flowers overlayed

    How Black Americans have been cheated out of land ownership – and the movement to reverse this

  • Three people walk with their dogs on leads through a field of sheep.

    Calls for new dog licences to better control unruly pets in England

April 2024

  • Right to Roam. Right to Roam campaigners publish “Wild Service” book, which is a call for people to become activists to save nature. Including contributions by Nick Hayes (pink), Jon Moses (dark green), Nadia Shaikh (woman), Paul Powlesland (blue). At the River Roding, near Barking, Essex. 29-03-2024 Photograph by Martin Godwin

    ‘Stitching the threads’: UK book offers radical vision of a grassroots ecology

  • Mountains peek up through heavy fog

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Power to the people? Bolivia’s hunt for gas targets national parks – and divides communities

March 2024

  • A man in a shirt and jeans standing in a classroom with empty desks

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Water is worth more than gold’: eco-activist Esteban Polanco on why violence won’t stop him

  • Rosie Jewell

    As a child, I roamed Dartmoor – and it shaped me. But across England, that freedom is being trampled on

    Rosie Jewell

February 2024

  • A ight to roam protest on Dartmoor in 2023.

    Mass trespass on Dartmoor to highlight England’s ‘piecemeal’ right to roam laws

  • Women from Monte Alegre collecting babaçu coconuts in a forest, as one woman dislodges the nuts with a long pole.

    Brazil’s nut-breakers refuse to crack as their precious palms are threatened

January 2024

  • Juan Alonso crying over his father's grave

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘He had a machete in his cheek’: how Guatemala’s hydropower dream turned deadly

  • A man takes off his hat as another man applies water to his forehead in a blessing

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Murder, drought and peyote: the deadly struggle for Mexico’s water

  • Campaigners outside the royal courts of justice with banners and signs reading 'right to roam'

    Landowner’s supreme court case threatens Dartmoor wild camping victory

  • The Atlantic forest in Brazil.

    Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream?

November 2023

  • A military truck transports a resident’s belongings near Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province.

    Unesco under fire for failing to prevent evictions at Angkor Wat temple site

    Amnesty says heritage body has ‘fallen short’ in its responsibility to thousands of families thrown off the complex in Cambodia
  • Seven men carrying spears stand by a river looking at a mechanical digger on the opposite bank

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘Leave the gold in the ground’: Ecuador’s forest guardians mobilise against illegal mining in Amazon

    The Indigenous A’i Cofán people invoke their ancestors and carry spears but also use drones, GPS mapping and the courts as they fight to protect their land from a rapacious gold rush

    • Time to expand public access to woodland

    • ‘We are living in absolute fear’: call to stop Indigenous evictions in Rift Valley

    • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
      ‘Billionaire club’: the tiny island of Barbuda braces for decision on land rights and nature

October 2023

  • José Luis Vásquez Chogue, Secretary of the Corporation Selk’nam. This is the first time he has visited the land of his ancestors, the Tierra del Fuego. "It was an emotion and an energy that I had never lived. I tried to see and experience this place with the eyes of my grandfather". His grandfather was given up for adoption and was taken by a French family. He have been on a personal search for more than thirty years. Only three years ago they found out they were Selk’nam, when they saw their grandfather’s name in one of the Salesian birth records on Dawson Island. The recent journey of self-discovery as Selk’nam has also become a tour of endless meetings with Chilean politicians to incorporate the Selk’nam into Indigenous Law. The main objective is to have them known as alive Selk’nam, contrary to what is still taught. “It’s hard to say who I am, because the State doesn’t recognize us,” says José. Punta Arenas, Chile, 2021.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We are alive and we are here’: Chile’s lost tribe celebrates long-awaited recognition

    The Selk’nam were almost wiped out by colonisers in the 19th century, and for years their existence was denied. Now they hope to finally claim their rights as one of Chile’s original peoples

September 2023

  • The hand of a woman in her 70s against the bark of a tree.

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    ‘We defended our right to the land’: Brazil’s Indigenous people hail supreme court victory

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

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