indigenous peoples

The world faces ecological collapse and mass extinctions unless dramatic action is taken to change social and economic systems, according to a global assessment by The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

It is alleged that WWF funds and works with paramilitary forces that have been accused of murdering scores of people.

The ruling is in response to requests to declare invalid the Forest Rights Act, which gives forest-dwelling people rights to their ancestral lands.

Uncontacted tribes can be wiped out by diseases like influenza and measles to which they have no resistance.