The Pillaging of Nicaragua’s Bosawás Biosphere Reserve - The Ecologist
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Under reestablished Sandinista rule, which has brought only small-scale efforts at reforestation, Nicaragua’s biodiverse forest cover continues to disappear at a quickening pace, further threatening species such as rare jaguars, spider monkeys and the few remaining Baird’s tapirs. Miskitu and Mayanga Indigenous Peoples in the region called on President Barack Obama in 2013 to support their fight for preservation.
Indigenous Miskitu and Mayangna have been battling the nationalization of their traditional territories against the Sandinistas in one form or another since at least the 1970s. While attempts at compromises and concessions were made by both sides along the way, the human rights and environmental crises central to this struggle have once again come to a head. Recent escalations have generated unthinkable violence and humanitarian disasters as illegal armed settlers known as ‘Colonos’ progressively encroach upon indigenous territories, terrorizing the legal inhabitants under a violent siege.
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