RAN Staff Visits Allies and Sites of Forest Conflict in Indonesia - July 2011
Lafcadio in the village of Muara Merang - one of the first areas in Indonesia to gain Hutan Desa designation for surrounding forests. Hutan Desa means 'village forest' and is a status that takes areas out of corporate control and puts them into community management.
RAN Forest Campaigner Lafcadio Cortesi and Communications Manager Laurel Sutherlin traveled to Indonesia in July of 2011 to meet with and interview an extensive network of allies involved in the movement to resist the rampant deforestation and human rights abuses occurring there. They conducted site visits to remote villages of Siabu, Muara Merang and Tanjung Alam, each impacted in different ways by Indonesia's forest crisis.
RAN Staff Visits Allies and Sites of Forest Conflict in Indonesia - July 2011
Lafcadio in the village of Muara Merang - one of the first areas in Indonesia to gain Hutan Desa designation for surrounding forests. Hutan Desa means 'village forest' and is a status that takes areas out of corporate control and puts them into community management.
RAN Forest Campaigner Lafcadio Cortesi and Communications Manager Laurel Sutherlin traveled to Indonesia in July of 2011 to meet with and interview an extensive network of allies involved in the movement to resist the rampant deforestation and human rights abuses occurring there. They conducted site visits to remote villages of Siabu, Muara Merang and Tanjung Alam, each impacted in different ways by Indonesia's forest crisis.