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“We live a social injustice because we have been dispossessed”
A new briefing documents how Indigenous Peoples in Peru lost their rights with the creation of the Cordillera Azul REDD project and the the Cordillera…
 • Chris Lang
Tanzania must respect the rights of Maasai Indigenous People living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The Oakland Institute calls on the Tanzanian government to recognise Maasai human rights and land rights.
 • Chris Lang
Southern Cardamom REDD project still threatens Indigenous Chong communities’ livelihoods in Cambodia
“Their project helps us very little.”
 • Chris Lang
Open letter: “The $700 billion for nature restoration is not based on scientific analysis”
Published in the Italian newspaper, Il Corriere della Sera.
 • Chris Lang
“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.
 • Chris Lang
Legal victory for Indigenous pastoralists in Kenya
A major blow to the Northern Rangelands Trust’s Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon project.
 • Chris Lang
“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.
 • Chris Lang
The biodiversity funding gap “is a dangerous way to approach debates about what is needed to transform societies to improve nature…
In an interview with Acción Ecológica, Andre Standing explains what’s wrong with the whole idea of a US$700 billion biodiversity funding gap.
 • Chris Lang
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.
 • Chris Lang
“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.
 • Chris Lang
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…
 • Chris Lang
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.
 • Chris Lang
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