China-backed MMG’s proposed tailings dam in northwest Tasmania, Australia, has sparked fierce opposition from Indigenous ...

Oxford scientists are aiming to produce a global map of the land owned ... much of it being covered in forest, and about 15 per cent of the world’s surface is ‘sacred land’ – land that ...

was young, his family and fellow villagers from Edayanchavadi, Tamil Nadu, India, would embark a few times a year on a 15-kilometer-long journey to a sacred forest ... working to map the extent ...

Karworo says the spirit of the sacred forest stopped the truck. But he also remembers his aunts and relatives physically protesting to protect what they say is their priceless community forest.

The place is known for a Buddhist-style war memorial on a 1.5-acre plot overlooking the site of a battle on November 18, 1962. The villagers said more than 80% of the 36 sq. km sacred forest has ...

Find out more about forest ... sacred forest where the ancestors acted like invisible fighters. All revered the forest and all it incarnates. Killing an animal from that forest or felling a tree was ...