Forced Migration Online. Buddhist Monks Leading Movement To Save Areng Valley In Cambodia. A $3,000 grant through RAN’s Protect-An-Acre program is supporting Mother Nature, a Cambodian movement of Buddhist monks, environmental activists and remote communities fighting for the cancellation of the proposed Cheay Areng dam in the Areng Valley of southwest Cambodia. The dam would flood up to 50,000 acres of forest, half of which is part of the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, while the additional area is home to more than 1,000 Khmer Daeum Indigenous peoples. Habitat for a vast array of rare fauna and flora, including the clouded leopard, would be lost and people would be forcibly relocated into a known elephant corridor, far from any major body of water, where rice growing is next to impossible.
Construction would also open up adjacent rainforest to further logging, poaching and land encroachment. All of this destruction would be caused for very little return, in the grand scheme of things. Find out more about the Save Areng Valley campaign at Mother Nature. Re:Common "Land grabs in Madagascar: voices from the ground - 2013" report launch. Land grabbing in Madagascar – Re:Common Re:Common, Solidarity among Land Actors (Solidarité des Intervenants sur le Foncier – SIF), Collective for the Defence of Malagasy Lands (Collectif pour la défense des terres malgaches – TANY) 13 November 2013 - Madagascar, a country rich in natural resources and potential to sustain its own development even though its people is one of the poorest is the world, is facing strong pressures of land grabbing by local and foreign investors at the expense of peasant and local communities.
After the news broke out in late 2008 of the scandalous Daewoo Logistics project supported by leaders of the Malagasy state, and the change of the country’s leadership soon after in early 2009, the granting of Malagasy land to investors was never questioned by the transitional government. All over the island, there are conflicts between local communities, peasants, herders and fisherfolk on the one hand and investment firms from diverse sectors on the other.
Land Observatory. LAND MATRIX.