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Amazon Indigenous REDD+: an innovative approach to conserve Colombian forests?

January 6, 2017
By Eliana Garzón
Mongabay

Summary:

* The Amazon Indigenous REDD+ (RIA) initiative led in Colombia by the indigenous organization OPIAC is being implemented in the departments of Amazonas and Guainia, territories made up of 169 indigenous reservations of 56 different villages, not counting the populations that are in voluntary isolation.

 

Muslim environmentalists give their religion — and their mosques — a fresh coat of green

January 4, 2017
By Chris Bentley
WCAI – NPR for the Cape, the Coast, and the Islands

The Koutoubia Mosque is one of the iconic landmarks of Marrakech’s old city. Its first stone was laid in 1150, and almost 900 years later, renovations continue.

The lake lures me to pray

January 2, 2017
By Ellen Dauwer
Global Sisters Report

When I entered religious life almost 40 years ago, living singly was not one of my expectations. Having grown up in a family that taught me to share, persuade and compromise, I had a bit of a head start adjusting to community life and have grown to love and value it deeply.

Vermont diocese to celebrate Year of Creation in 2017

December 27, 2016
By Cori Fugere Urban
Catholic News Service

Burlington, Vt. - The Burlington, Vermont, diocese will observe a special Year of Creation during 2017.

Similar to the global Year of Mercy, which emphasized the role of mercy in the Catholic faith, the diocesan-wide Year of Creation will bring...

Latinx Christianity and religion/ecology are focus of new M.A.R. concentrations

December 22, 2016
Yale Divinity School
http://divinity.yale.edu/news/latinx-christianity-and-religionecology-are-focus-new-mar-concentrations

Yale Divinity School is launching two new concentrated programs of study in the Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.)...

Ecuador's Standing Rock? Tanks and Helicopters Deployed Against Indigenous Shuar People

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Ecuador’s Standing Rock? Tanks and Helicopters Deployed Against Indigenous Shuar People Defending Ancestral Territory From Mega-Mining

December 21, 2016
Chakana Chronicles

Standing Rock Sioux - A Model for Protection of Planet and its People

December 21, 2016
By David Schilling, Senior Program Director, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
Institute for Human Rights and Business

Standing Rock 'water protectors' dig in for the winter

As winter rages over the Dakotas and temperatures plummet below freezing, NoDAPL protest movement members hold ground.

By Avery White
Al Jazeera
December 20, 2016

RCBWG Releases Summary of Best Practices Survey on Engaging Faith Communities

December 14, 2016
By Jame Schaefer
Society for Conservation Biology

SCB’s Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group (RCBWG) released a summary of the Best Practices Survey of SCB members on engaging faith communities. 

Conducted on behalf of RCBWG from May 31-September 10,...

Best Practices Survey - Promising First Step Toward Developing Guidelines

By Jame Schaefer and Susan Higgins
On behalf of the Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group
Society for Conservation Biology
December 2016
http://conbio.org/images/content_news_blog/RCB+BestPracticesSummary_12.pdf

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