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Open letter: “The $700 billion for nature restoration is not based on scientific analysis”
Published in the Italian newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera.
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“We are stuck like chickens in a cage.” How an Indigenous Bunong woman describes living in the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia
The project has serious impacts on the livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples, while failing to stop deforestation.
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Legal victory for Indigenous pastoralists in Kenya
A major blow to the Northern Rangelands Trust’s Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon project.
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“Our leaders are misusing that money. Nobody knows about carbon.” DW documentary on the Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon project, Kenya
No free, prior informed consent. Loss of livelihoods. Human rights abuses.
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Ending fortress conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A new report from the Oakland Institute documents the abuses of the conservation industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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“Like Apartheid.” Maasai in Ngorongoro Conservation Area protest against forced evictions and loss of basic rights
The government has removed the Ngorongoro division from the voters’ register, denying the Maasai the right to vote.
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Human Rights Watch report on Southern Cardamom REDD project in Cambodia
“Conservation strategies that sideline and punish Indigenous peoples to address the global environmental crisis are unacceptable, and…
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Republic of Congo approves oil exploration in Conkouati-Douli
But there’s only silence from the donors that have poured millions into forest protection in the country.
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Gabon’s media calls Lee White, “Satan of the Waters and the Forests”
Lee White, ex-forestry minister of Gabon, recently gave an interview to The Times.
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“Weaving the defence of the Kichwa territory in the face of the conservation of the Cordillera Azul National Park”
Kichwa Indigenous communities demand that Big Polluters buying carbon credits "assume their responsibilities for having invested in a Park that…
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Indigenous Baka people accuse African Parks of “cruel and inhumane” abuse at the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of Congo
Prince Harry is a member of African Parks’ board. As is Hansjörg Wyss, founder of the Wyss Foundation.
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Statement against the illegal and violent Ogiek evictions in Kenya
“Forest-based carbon projects are particularly problematic as they often target Indigenous Peoples and their ways of life rather than the true drivers…
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