Article | 06 Sep, 2010

Defending Melanesian Land

Defending Melanesian Land is a short video in which Melanesian activists explain why indigenous land is important to people in the Pacific, and why they have formed a regional alliance (the Melanesian Indigenous Land Defence Alliance – MILDA) to defend indigenous Melanesian land.

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The DVD also features Sausi – village cooperation, a story about a community in Papua New Guinea which rejected oil palm development, held onto their land, protected their environment and generated higher incomes than those lured into oil palm schemes.

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