In Cameroon, the Bagyeli "pygmies" have been tossed out of their traditional foraging areas, which have been turned into a national park by the government.
In Chile, the Araucaria forests of the Pehuenche people were cut down by logging companies to whom the national government sold the land.
In Malaysia, the government authorized logging, the creation of plantations and dam building on the customary lands of several Sarawak forest communities
In Togo, local fisheries are being overfished by modern fishing fleets, leaving none for Togolese fishers.
In Russia, over the past 70 years oil and gas projects on Sakhalin Island have degraded the oceanic and freshwater fisheries of the Nivkhi people.
In Laos, the Nam Theun 2 dam project financed by the World Bank and Asian Development Bank will displace 6,000 villagers, who are being resettled on insufficient land.
In Paraguay, ranchers seized and are continuing to encroach upon the ancestral territory of the Ayoreo people.
In India, the government has never recognized nor given title to the traditional lands occupied by the Katkari people, with the result that they are vulnerable to outside land developers.
Do you see a pattern here?
full article at:
http://www.reason.co.../rb071305.shtml
People in america complain about the recent supreme court rulings that have undermined property rights, but things are a lot worse elsewhere. How many poor countries do you know that have protected property rights? How many rich countries do you know without property rights?
